Editing Hunslet (section)

==Etymology==
Hunslet is first mentioned as ''Hunslet'' (sic, for ''*Hunsflet'') in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, though twelfth-century spellings of the name such as ''Hunesflete'' seem to be more conservative: the name appears originally to have meant 'Hūn's creek', from an Anglo-Saxon personal name ''Hūn''<ref name="Smith">A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, English Place-Names Society, 30–37, 8 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961–63), III 220.</ref> (or ''Hūna''<ref>''Nordic Names'' : origin and etymology of 
''Huna'' [https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Huna]</ref>) and the Old English word ''flēot'' 'creek, inlet', probably referring to an inlet from the River Aire<ref name="Smith"/> (> ''-fleet'' :  [[Adlingfleet]], ''Adelingesfluet'' 1086 ; [[Marfleet]], ''Merefluet'' 1086 ; [[Ousefleet]], ''Useflete'' 1100–1108). There are also the Old Norse personal names ''Húnn'' (Old Danish ''Hun'')<ref>''Nordic Names'' : origin and etymology of 
''Hun'' [https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Hun]</ref> and ''Húni'',<ref>''Nordic Names'' : origin and etymology of 
''Húni'' [https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Húni]</ref> [[cognate]]s of ''Hūn(a)''. The district of Hunslet Carr, whose name is first attested in the period 1175–89 as ''Kerra'', includes the northern English dialect word ''carr'', meaning 'bog' (borrowed into English from [[Old Norse]] ''kjarr'', which had the same meaning, but more commonly "copsewood", "brushwood", "thicket"). Meanwhile, Hunslet moor is first mentioned in 1588.<ref>Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 58.</ref>

Notice : Hunslet is possibly related etymologically to the place-name [[Honfleur]] in Normandy, which is probably of Anglo-Scandinavian origin and mentioned as ''Huneflet'' in 1025, ''Hunefleth'' in 1082 - 87.<ref>François de Beaurepaire, ''Les Noms de lieux du Calvados'', (annoté par Dominique Fournier), Paris, [[Éditions L'Harmattan|L'Harmattan]], 2022, p. 214, ISBN 978-2-14-028854-8</ref>