Heck vs Hoy

Heck

name
  • A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980). 

  • A surname, possibly from German. 

  • A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck. 

  • A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s. 

Hoy

name
  • A small uninhabited island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU3744). 

  • A surname. 

  • An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. 

  • An island in south-west Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid refs HY20, ND29). 

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