Hardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England—this is from the Old English pre-7th century word "heorde", meaning a "herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time. Places United Kingdom Hardwick, Buckinghamshire Hardwick, Cambridgeshire Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick Hardwick, County Durham Hardwick, Lincolnshire Hardwick, Monmouthshire Hardwick, Norfolk RAF Hardwick, Norfolk Hardwick, Northamptonshire Hardwick, Cherwell, Oxfordshire Hardwick, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire Hardwick, Rutland, a lost settlement in the United Kingdom Hardwick, Suffolk Hardwick, Walsall, an area in Walsall Hardwick Village, Nottinghamshire East Hardwick, West Yorkshire West Hardwick, West Yorkshire Kempston Hardwick, Bedfordshire Kites Hardwick, Warwickshire Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire The Netherlands Harderwijk United States Hardwick, California Hardwick, Baldwin County, Georgia Hardwick, Bryan County, Georgia Hardwick, Massachusetts Hardwick, Minnesota Hardwick, Vermont, a New England town Hardwick (CDP), Vermont, village in the town Hardwick Field, an airport in Tennessee Hardwick Township, New Jersey Australia Hardwicke Street, New South Wales Business Hardwick Clothes, the oldest manufacturer of tailor-made clothing in the United States Hardwick Stove Company, a former cooking appliance manufacturer merged with Maytag in 1981 Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad, a former railroad in Vermont, U.S.A. Other uses Hardwick (surname) Hardwicke (surname) Hardwick (appliances), a Maytag brand No 790 Hardwicke, a LNWR Improved Precedent Class speed-record-breaking steam engine during the Race to the North See also Hartwick (disambiguation) Herdwick, a breed of sheep from the Lake District, England Hardwicke (disambiguation)