For those who are interested in the history of our island and in particular the origin of many of its familiar place-names we recommend the E-book by Richard Coates who is Professor of Linguistics, University of the West of England and Hon. Director, Survey of English Place-Names.
This E-book is made freely available, and may be downloaded, printed and copied without permission provided that proper acknowledgement is made of the author, title, and web-address. It should be cited as follows:
Coates, Richard (1991) The place-names of Hayling Island, Hampshire. Manuscript, revised version accessible electronically (since 2007) at
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/staff_coates_r_hayling.doc
(note the underscores in staff_coates_r_hayling)