206 p. MANNiXG PLACE-NAMES AND FIELD-NAMES 



outside the park fence, and this is called the "right of the 

 hucFs leap'''' ; around Eichmond Park the Crown claims the 

 land for sixteen feet outside the fence ; and at Wrottesley 

 Park, in Staffordshire, a similar surrounding belt is called 

 the '■'■Deer-leap^'' or " Deer-spring" (' Polk Lore,' vol. iii, 

 p. 427). I would suggest that here Ave have a parallel 

 instance, though the Deer Spring is now within the fence. 

 Diamond's Garden, 1854. 

 (0) Dingieys, 1854. 



Doctor's Pightle, 1854. 

 (0) Dove House Picld, 1854. This is the manorial dovecote at 

 Oxhey Place. 

 Dry-and-be-damned Field, 1803. 



Durrant's Lane, 1854. Roger Durrant, alias Estbury, of 

 Eickmansworth, married Alice Ealdwin, of Watford, in 

 1603 (H.G., i, 177). 

 (0) Dyer's Field, 1854. 



Eastbury. The first mention that I can find is in 1290 

 (Gesta, ii, 5). 

 (0) Edeswick, 1601 (Cuss., ' Cashio Hund.,' p. 174), now Oxhey 

 Lodge ; vide p. 197. 

 Ewlings, 1854. 



Eye Spring, 1803. A.S. ea, water. 

 Pane Hills, 18U3. 

 Featherbed Lane, 1803. 

 (0) iinehes Hill, 1854. A William Pinch of Watford died cir. 

 1544 (Cuss., ' Cashio Hund.,' p. 184), and the Pinch family 

 has owned the Eedheath estate from 1710 to the present day. 

 (L) Fortune's Parm, 1854. John Fortune was witness of a grant 

 of Garston Manor to St. Albans Abbey in 1455 (Eeg. 

 W^het., i, 189). 

 (0) Pox Dell Field, 1803. 



(0) Frith Ground, 1854. Welsh fridd, a wood. Halliwell- 

 Phillipps gives several slight variations in meaning from 

 different dialects, but the underlying meaning seems to 

 be land cleared from wood and used as rough pasture, 

 sometimes partially covered with brushwood. 

 (0) Proghall, 18.04. The name occurs frequently in Middlesex, 

 Bucks, and Herts ; sometimes as Proghole ; cf . Frogmore, 

 Frogual. It maybe connected \f'\i\\. frough, loose, spongy, 

 brittle (H.P.) ; I have met with the word in Oxfordshire. 

 Or it may simply allude to the fi'ogs that inhabit a swampy 

 place. 

 Galpyns, 1456 (Eeg. Whet., i, 229). 

 Gammon's Farm, 1883. 

 (L) Gander's Ash, 1854. 

 Gander's Pye, 1854. 

 (L) Garsmouth, 1854; Gosmers, 1808. Perhaps from gore, 

 a triangular piece of land, A.S. gar, a sharp point; cf. 

 Kensington Gore, and gar-lie, the pointed plant. 



