210 p. MANNING PLACE-NAMiiS AND FIELD-NAMES 



(0) Nomansland or !N"emaiisland, 1803. Vide p. 194. 

 (L) Nut Beam Field, 1854. A.S. beam, a tree. 

 Otterspool, 1780. 

 Oxhey ; occurs in 790 as Oxongehaege, i.e. the hedge or 



enclosure for oxen. 

 Packer Field, 1854. Joan, daughter of Nicholas Packer, was 



baptized at Watford in 1539 (Register). 

 (0) Palmer's Field, 1354. 



Parker's Croft, 1803. Mr. Rogers Parker owned the Munden 



estate from 1787 to 1828 (Cuss., ' Cashio Hund.,' p. 181). 

 Parlour Field, 1854. 

 Payne's Piece, 1854. Mary, daughter of Samuel Blackwell, 



who married William PajTie, Esq., was buried at Watford 



in 1669. 

 (L) Pen Long Cutts or Cott. "Pen" means an enclosure, from 



A.S. pinan, to press ; for " cutts " vide Cut Croft. 

 Penman's Pightle, 1877. In 1803, Penmer's ; old O.S. 



Penmore ; this change is exactly parallel to that of 



Rickmersworth to Rick»2flwsworth. 

 (0) Pesecroft, 1456 (Reg. Whet., i, 223). 



Pest-house Field. The pest-house, which still stands, was an 



isolated house to which people suffering fi'om infectious 



disease could be sent in case of need. 

 Pettifers, 1854. 

 Phipp's Lane, 1854. 

 (0) Piper's Field. Vide Blacksmith's Field, and p. 196. 

 Plat Field, 1803. 

 Poor Hill, 1803. 

 Pope's Croft, 1854. 

 Potter's Field, 1854. 

 Pow Field, 1854. 

 Prescot Field, 1803. 

 Queeches. Drayton, in his ' Polyolbion ' (1613), speaks of 



"Goodwin's queachy sand" ; it means shaking, or moving. 



Cf. quag-mive^ which belongs to the same root as quick. 

 Range, 1854; Reins, 1803. 

 (0) Raymonds, 1854. 

 Reade's Field, 1803. 

 Reddings Wood, 1854. The name occurs as Readings, 



Ridings, or Riddings ; it means a green ride. 

 Redheatii. 



Ricketts Field, 1854. 

 Roundabout, The, 1854. 

 Rousebarn. Hen. Rowce, party to a deed concerning 



a messuage in Watford, 1527 (HG., i, 137). 

 Row, The, 1854. A provincial word for hedge. 

 Rull Field, 1803. 

 Runnington's Field, 1854. The name occurs in Watford 



towards the end of the seventeenth century. 

 Russell Farm. Probably named after John Lord Russell, who 



