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—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 is both a village and a civil parish within the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north of Aylesbury. Hardwick is a common place name in England, of Old English origin me ...

Hardwick, Cambridgeshire Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, England with a large housing estate located about west of the city of Cambridge, England. The village lies immediately south of the A428 road between Cambridge and St Neots. ...

Hardwick Hall Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Ro ...

, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick *

Hardwick, County Durham Hardwick is a west Stockton-on-Tees area in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, northern England. It is where North Tees Hospital. The Hardwick ward had 6,881 population in the 2011 census. It is bordered by Harrowgate Lane to th ...

Hardwick, Lincolnshire Hardwick is a civil parish about 7 miles from Lincoln, in the West Lindsey district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 44. The parish touches Fenton, Kettlethorpe, Saxilby with Ingleby, Thorney and ...

* Hardwick, Monmouthshire * Hardwick, Norfolk **

RAF Hardwick Royal Air Force Hardwick or more simply RAF Hardwick is a former Royal Air Force station located between the Norfolk villages of Topcroft and Hardwick in England. It is around west of Bungay, Suffolk. History Hardwick Airfield was one of the ...

, Norfolk *

Hardwick, Northamptonshire Hardwick is a small village in North Northamptonshire, England, close to the town of Wellingborough. The population is included in the civil parish of Great Harrowden Great Harrowden is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, w ...

Hardwick, Cherwell Hardwick is a village in the civil parish of Hardwick with Tusmore about north of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Manor The village's toponym comes from the Old English for a farm or dwelling place for sheep. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as ...

, Oxfordshire *

Hardwick, West Oxfordshire Hardwick is a village in the civil parish of Hardwick-with-Yelford in West Oxfordshire. The village is on the A415 road about southeast of Witney. It lies on the river Windrush. Hardwick was historically a hamlet or chapelry in the ancien ...

, Oxfordshire * Hardwick, Rutland, a lost settlement in the United Kingdom * Hardwick, Suffolk * Hardwick, Walsall, an area in Walsall *

Hardwick Village Hardwick Village is a rural settlement located in the Bassetlaw District, Bassetlaw administrative area of Nottinghamshire. It is within Clumber Park, part of a greater area known as The Dukeries. It consists of former labourers' cottages and a c ...

, Nottinghamshire *

East Hardwick East Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 191, reducing to 173 at the 2011 Census. Until 1974 it was part of Osgoldcross Rural District. History The name 'East ...

, West Yorkshire *

West Hardwick West Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastw ...

, West Yorkshire *

Kempston Hardwick Kempston Hardwick is a small village on the edge of the town of Kempston in Bedfordshire, England. Historically it was one of the hamlets or "ends" scattered across the parish of Kempston. It is served by Kempston Hardwick railway station on the ...

, Bedfordshire *

Kites Hardwick Kites Hardwick is a hamlet in east Warwickshire, England, in the Leam Valley ward of Rugby Borough and in the civil parish of Leamington Hastings The village straddles the A426 Rugby to Southam road two miles (3 km) south of Dunchurch. I ...

, Warwickshire *

Priors Hardwick Priors Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 172. The name derives from the fact that it was originally a manor belonging to ...

, Warwickshire

The Netherlands

Harderwijk Harderwijk (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city of the Netherlands. It is served by the Harderwijk railway station. Its population centres are Harderwijk and Hierden. Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe. The southea ...

United States

Hardwick, California Hardwick is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kings County, California, United States. It is part of the Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 138 at the 2010 Census. The village is located northwest of Han ...

Hardwick, Baldwin County, Georgia Hardwick is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,329 at the 2020 census, down from 5,819 in 2000, at which time it was listed as Midway-Hardwick. It is laid out around Central State Hosp ...

Hardwick, Bryan County, Georgia Hardwick or Hardwicke is a place in Bryan County, Georgia. The town was laid out in 1754. Harwick was the county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in ...

Hardwick, Massachusetts Hardwick is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about west of the city of Worcester. It had a population of 2,667 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Hardwick, Gilbertville, Wheelwright and Old Furnace. Hist ...

Hardwick, Minnesota Hardwick is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. Hardwick was platted in 1892, and named after J. L. Hardwick, a railroad official. The city is known throughout the region for its immense stray cat population. As of 2018, stray cats ...

Hardwick, Vermont Hardwick is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,920 at the 2020 census. It contains the unincorporated villages of Hardwick, East Hardwick, and Mackville. The town is a commercial center for the region's fa ...

, a New England town **

Hardwick (CDP), Vermont Hardwick is the primary village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 1,269, out of 2,920 in the entire town of Hardwick. Hardw ...

, village in the town *

Hardwick Field Hardwick Field , also known as Cleveland Municipal Airport, was a public airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Cleveland, in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. It opened in 1955 and was owned ...

, an airport in Tennessee *

Hardwick Township, New Jersey Hardwick Township is a township in Warren County, New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township's population was 1,598, a decrease of 98 (-5.8%) from the 2010 census count of 1,696. History Hardwick Township was created around 1713 thro ...

Australia

* Hardwicke Street, New South Wales

Business

Hardwick Clothes Hardwick Clothes is an American clothing manufacturer headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee specializing in tailor-made suits for men and women. Founded on July 28, 1880, Hardwick Clothes is the oldest maker of tailored clothing in America, and ...

, the oldest manufacturer of tailor-made clothing in the United States * Hardwick Stove Company, a former cooking appliance manufacturer merged with

Maytag The Maytag Corporation is an American home and commercial appliance company owned by Whirlpool Corporation since April 2006. Company history The Maytag Washing Machine Company was founded in 1893 by businessman Frederick Maytag. In 1925, ...

in 1981 *

Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad The Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad (H&WRR, or H&W) was a Shortline railroad, short-line railroad serving the towns of Hardwick, Vermont, Hardwick and Woodbury, Vermont. Built to serve the local granite industry by bringing rough stone from the q ...

, a former railroad in Vermont, U.S.A.

Other uses

Hardwick (surname) Hardwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Hardwick, English television presenter * Anna Elisabeth Hartwick, Swedish lace industrialist * Ben Hardwick, liver transplant patient * Bess of Hardwick, English noble * Billy Ha ...

* Hardwicke (surname) * Hardwick (appliances), a

brand * No 790 Hardwicke, a

LNWR Improved Precedent Class The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Improved Precedent Class or Renewed Precedent Class is a class of steam locomotives originally designed for express passenger work. They later gained the nickname of ''Jumbos''. History The locomotiv ...

speed-record-breaking steam engine during the Race to the North