Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England, the location of Hever Castle (OS grid ref TQ4744). · A village in Flanders, Belgium.
For the place in England: 'The settlement at the high ridge', from Old English Heanyfre, from hēah (“high”), in the oblique case hēan + *ȳfre (“ridge”), or perhaps the Kentish dialectal variant *ēfre (see ōfer for more). In reference to the site being located atop a hill overlooking the valley of the river Eden. Akin to Highover.
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