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of forest pasture. Inrj means a meadow, Ang. Sax., hence Has- 

 lingden, is " the meadow in tlie hazelwood valley." Ing in the 

 middle of a word is a patronymic. The following set of words 

 imply less or more of wood-dearimj or ridding, viz. Grave, Grove, 

 Greeve. Grave, as a final syllable means a grove, a small wood, 

 a wood having a shady walk within it. Royd, Taylor says is 

 Teutonic ; meaning " land that has been ridded of trees." On 

 the western flank of Hambledon Hill, we have Marirogd Well, 

 which seems to have been, in pagan times, one of the ancient 

 May Day holy wells. At this well a fair, or rustic gathering, 

 is still held on the first Sunday in May. According to the 

 Monasticon Anglica this royd, or forest clearing, was granted to 

 certain Monks, who were subsequently driven away by the in- 

 habitants of the district. While there, however, following the 

 sage advice of Gregory the Great to St. Augustine, they re- 

 dedicated the well to the Virgin Mary, with tlie purpose of 

 retaining the veneration of the natives for the place while they 

 diverted it into a different channel. Huntroyd, from Sax. huntean, 

 " to hunt wild animals," is the ridding for the hunt. HoLroyd, 

 " the ridding in the hollow." Acre and Field are synonymous, 

 but are now modified from their original meaning. Acre, slightly 

 varied, is found in Celtic, Sax , Ger., Gr., Lat. and LowLat., 

 in the sense of " a ploughed or sowed field," and was used in 

 this sense, in Britain up to the time of 5th Ed. I., 31st Ed. III., 

 and 24th Hy. VIII., when it was limited to definite measurement, 

 which, however, differed in different parts. In its original sense 

 we have God's Acre, "the field or bm-ial ground belonging to a 

 churcli ; Knaves Acre, near Hey Head Farm, from Sax. caufa, 

 a boy or young man, then a servant, and lastly a false deceitful 

 fellow, a rogue. Knaves Acre was probably, as it is still, a waste 

 field, formerly used for youthful sports, " the young men's field." 

 Acre Mill, is " the mill in the field," but may have been so called 

 for some special reason, as there are several bearing that name. 

 Field Sax., and Ger./eW, is probably " level land, or plain ; " and 

 Dvi.vellen, " to fell or lay down," properly "land not covered 

 with wood," and ixsed for tillage or pasture. We have several 

 H'jlm Fields from Holm, "a lake or river-island," or "a field 

 or piece of flat land by the side of a stream," aUied to ing and 

 hauqli ; also Long Holm and Holmes, near RawtenstaU, Reeds 

 Holme, and Higher and Lower Holmes, &c., near Crawshawbooth, 

 where Holme and Field are nearly synonymous terms. The word 

 itself is pure Norse or Norwegian, and is also embodied in the Ang. 

 Sax. seemingly by adoption. Rogd, Acre, Field, Haw, Gau, and 

 Gag, are from the Sax. and Ger. gehaw, and are cognate ^iih. field, 

 meaning "a place where the trees have been hewn, a forest 

 ridding." 6^a(('thorp, has this prefix, and with it Thorp or Throp, 

 Dan, "a village," indicating permanent residence, and with 



