OF Till': I'AlilSir OF AVATFOliD. 207 



(L) Garstou, either gore-atoni', or from A.S. gcers-ton, a grassy 

 place. 



(0) Gibb's Couch, 1808-54. A Thomas Gibb, of Bushey, was 

 marrieil in 1 7 1 7 ( Register) ; " coucli " is probably a softened 

 form of quick, in the sense of " growing," corresponding to 

 the double form in A.S. cue and cwic; of. quitch-^xi\.9,s and 

 couch-^YA?.^. The word " quick " was used to denote a hedge 

 or clump of bus^hes in Northamptonshire ; " seven leyes on 

 the fallows, with two quicks'''' (Terrier of 1751, Orlingbury, 

 Northauts). 



(L) Golden Croft, 1854. 



Goose Clack, 1803. " Clag, a bog; clag, to stick. North 



country" (H.P.). A.S. claeg, clay. 

 Grub Field, 1 803. 

 Gully or Gullett Field, 1854. 

 Hagden Lane, 1883. Vide p. 194. 



(0) Hammond Slough, 1854. 



(0) Hamper Alill, 1854. 



Hampstead or Hemstead Field, 1803. As this field is on the 

 banks of the Colne, it probablj' is A.S. ham-stath, home-bank ; 

 the form Hemstead is nearer the Danish hjem, German heim. 



(0) Hansey Down, 1803. In a deed of 1379 (Gesta, iii, 235) the 

 name Hausexdone occurs ; as ' u ' and ' n ' are easily con- 

 fused in the MS., it is probable that the same place is 

 meant in both cases. 



(L) Harebrake, 1854. 



Harrack's Wood, 1854. 



(0) Harvey's, 1854. 



Harwoods. First mentioned in 1544 (Newcome's 'History of 

 St. Albans,' p. 486) ; called Har wards in a grant of James I 

 in 1605; Horwoods in 1608 (Add. MSS. 16,273, f. 7). 

 Rich. Horwood is mentioned in the will of John Olyve, of 

 Watford, 1429 (H.G., i, 232). 

 Hatter's Farm, 1629. Another name for Brightwells. 



(0) Hickman's Field, 1854. Henry Hickman, yeoman, died 

 seised of the manor of Bournehall in Bushey in 1594 

 (Cuss., 'Dacorum Hund.,' p. 225). 

 High Elms, 1877. 



High-street Farm, 1877. This name marks the line of 

 a (probable) Romano- British road, which runs north-west 

 and south-east along the watershed between the Chess on 

 the south and west and the Gade and Bulbourne on the 

 north and east. It is represented by the modern road 

 from Chandler's Cross to Bo\'ingdon, and can be traced 

 by the names Street Farm and Kent Street Farm in 

 Bovingdon parish, Friday Street Farm close to Ashlyns, 

 and probably Shooters-?t'(ry/ Farm in Northchurch parish. 

 It appears to join Akeman Street and the Icknield Way 

 at Tring. To the south - east its course is not clear ; 

 l^robably it ran over Croxley Green, east of Rickmansworth, 



