Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Hainault Forest [ARTICLE]

Hainault Forest

Halnault forest, where the London county council golf courses will be closed for the remainder of the war, bears a title that torments the antiquaries, some of whom have - gone to Germany for a derivation. But “Hainault” is realiy’a modern corruption of a word variously written “Hineholt” or “Henholt,” stands obviously for the Saxon hean-holt, meaning “worthless wood.” This same name of “Hyneholt” was formerly borne by part of the royal forest near Colchester. Anciently Halnault forest comprised that portion of the great forest of Waltham which lay south and east of the River Ruding, and was administered by the same officials as Sipping forest. —London Chronicle.