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PLACE AND FIELD NAMES OF DERBYSHIRE. 89 
GRATTON owes its prefix to gres, grass, and indicates its 
propinquity to meadow land. Hassock, which not unfrequently 
gives the name to fields and closes throughout the county, is 
the modern form of Aassuc, coarse grass. Hassocks, or cushions, 
were thus called from being commonly stuffed with this material. 
With CRESsWELL and Cress Hitt, derived from cressa, the 
water cress, or wild nasturtium, we come to the end of Derby- 
shire place-names that are connected with the vegetable world. 
throughout Great Britain has advanced of late years, the acreage having 
advanced from 17,542 acres in 1868, to 23,957 in 1870. In Ireland, on the 
contrary, where it is a far more important crop, there has been a most sad 
decrease. 
