Editing Harrogate (section)

==Toponym==
The name ''Harrogate'' is first attested in the 1330s as ''Harwegate'', ''Harougat'' and ''Harrowgate''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Harrogate, High Harrogate, Low Harrogate :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Knaresborough/5328827bb47fc40c810061b3-Harrogate%2C+High+Harrogate%2C+Low+Harrogate |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=19 February 2021 |archive-date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928063643/http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Knaresborough/5328827bb47fc40c810061b3-Harrogate%2C+High+Harrogate%2C+Low+Harrogate |url-status=live }}</ref> The origin of the name is uncertain.  It may derive from Old Norse ''hǫrgr'' 'a heap of stones, cairn' + ''gata'' 'street', in which case the name presumably meant 'road to the cairn'.<ref>Victor Watts (ed.), ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. ''HARROGATE''.</ref> Another possibility is that the name means "the way to Harlow". The form ''Harlowgate'' is known from 1518,<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=A.&nbsp;H.|author-link=Albert Hugh Smith|title=The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire|volume=5|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1961|page=108}}</ref> and apparently in the court rolls of [[Edward II of England|Edward II]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Harrogate Great Chronicle 1332–1841|first=Malcolm|last= Neesam|year=2005|isbn=978-1-85936-145-0|page=9|publisher=Carnegie }}</ref>