where did the name locks heath come from
heathland surrounding Locks Farm
title: Haywards Heath text: Gatwick for work. The name Hayward comes from Old English meaning an official who protected hedged enclosures from wandering livestock. There is a local legend that the name comes from a highwayman who went under the name of Jack Hayward. Haywards Heath is referenced in English Civil War records when early in December 1642 the High Sheriff of Sussex (Sir Edward Ford) advanced with Royalist troops towards Lewes in East Sussex from Chichester in West Sussex. He was intercepted in Haywards Heath by local Parliamentarians and defeated. Haywards Heath as a settlement is a relatively modern development. Following the arrival title: Bushey text: is that it is simply derived from the Old English word "bysce" and Old French "boisseie", meaning a 'place covered with wood'. The latter theory could prove more apt, as the town is located in the valleys which extend southwards from the Chiltern Hills, which were once covered in dense forests of oak, elm, ash, hazel and juniper. Bushey Heath's story begins in the Napoleonic Wars during a large food shortage. To help solve the problem, the government awarded the waste land to the east of Bushey to Bushey landowners to be used as farming; the land was more generally title: Padlock text: mechanisms have been found in York, England, at the Jorvik Viking settlement, dated 850 AD. During this period between 850 AD and the early 1000 AD was when the name 'padlock' was coined. It was contrived during this period to initially hold livestock within its quarters of the paddock, whereby the word "pad" was derived and applied to form the current word. Smokehouse locks, designed in England, were formed from wrought iron sheet and employed simple lever and ward mechanisms. These locks afforded little protection against forced and surreptitious entry. Contemporary with the smokehouse padlocks and originating in the Slavic title: Hedge text: years, originating in the medieval period. The root word of 'hedge' is much older: it appears in the Old English language, in German ("Hecke"), and Dutch ("haag") to mean 'enclosure', as in the name of the Dutch city The Hague, or more formally" 's Gravenhage", meaning "The Count's hedge". Charles the Bald is recorded as complaining in 864, at a time when most official fortifications were constructed of wooden palisades, that some unauthorized men were constructing "haies et fertés" – tightly interwoven hedges of hawthorns. In parts of Britain, early hedges were destroyed to make way for the manorial open-field title: Roseanne Barr text: she later called a "bad joke". Roseanne Barr was born on November 3, 1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a Jewish family. She is the oldest of four children born to Helen (née Davis), a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, who worked as a salesman. Her father's family were Jewish emigrants from Russia, and her maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria-Hungary and Lithuania. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from "Borisofsky" to "Barr" upon entering the United States. Her Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother. Barr's parents kept their Jewish