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“Place and field Mames of Derbyshire which 
tudtcate Vegetable Productions. 
By Rev. J. CHARLES Cox. 
_ [The following paper was read at a Winter Meeting of the Society, 
held on November roth, 1879, and is printed at the request of the Council. 
which I have not touched since 1870. I think it best that it should appear 
st as it was then written, though riper judgment might lead me to various 
re ifficulty and expense connected withinspecting a// the parish maps of the 
county, HithertoI have consulted only about one third of the whole. 
“TC.” is an abbreviation for ‘‘ Tithe Commutation Map.”’] 
ILLUSION has already been made, in the preceding 
chapter, to the vast forests with which Derbyshire 
was formerly covered, and we shall now proceed to 
: consideration of their component parts, so far as they are 
mnected with the nomenclature of the county. It will be 
right, however, in the first instance, to make a few remarks 
upon trees in general. In the days when the boundaries of 
ining estates were not marked out by hedges, roads, or 
ditches, trees were planted upon the borders of a property, or 
standing when all around was cleared, in order to leave 
enduring record of their limits. Such trees were never 
cu , and were guarded with almost religious care. These trees, 
