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Place and field Names of Derbysdive 
Which tdtcate the jFauna. 
By Rev. J. CuHaries Cox. 
[The following paper was read at a Winter Meeting of the Society, held 
on November 24th, 1880, and is printed at the request of the Council. It 
_ is necessary, however, to state that it forms part (chapter vi.) of a projected 
_ and partially completed book on Derbyshire Place and Field Names, which 
I have not touched since 1870. I think it best that it should appear just 
as it was then written, though riper judgment might lead me to various 
_ alterations and corrections in this and other chapters, if the work should ever 
be finished. The reason that it was for a time abandoned was the great 
difficulty and expense connected with inspecting @// the parish maps of the 
county. Hitherto I have consulted only about one-third of the whole. 
_“T. C.” is an abbreviation for “ Tithe Commutation Map.”] 
yJELE names of wild animals, many of them original 
denizens of this country, and others introduced by 
the Romans and subsequent settlers, are still preserved 
ir our place-names. Owing to her extensive forests, Derbyshire 
akes a foremost place among those counties which thus preserve 
after various animals, both wild and domestic.* <A certain 
amount of caution is required in examining nomenclature of this 
* See throughout this chapter Professor Heinrich Léo, Local Nomenclature 
Of the Anglo-Saxons, as exhibited in the Codex Diplomaticus. 
