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signify respectively the "combe'' and the "legh'' by the 

 wood. 



18. Clench. The name of a farm close by Steeple Ashton. It is 



probably from the Welsh cl^n. a brake, or thicket. Clynog 

 (olim clpioc) means " abounding with brakes, or thickets.'' 



Cod-mead. The name of a plot of land in Monkton Farleigh. It 

 certainly means the meadow by the wood (W. coed). The 

 term co^-apple signifies the wild (=wood) apple. 



CoNiGRE. A very common name throughout Wilts, and meaning 

 " rabbit warren." There can be little doubt of its derivation 

 from the Welsh owning, a rabbit, or coney. The compound 

 cwning-gaer is given in the dictionaries as meaning " rabbit 

 warren." 



CoNOCK. Not far from Devizes, a tithing of Chirton : a form of 

 the Welsh cnwc Irish and Gaelic cnoc, which means a " roimd 

 hUl." 



CoKS-LEY. \ The former portion of each of these names is probably 



CoRS-TON. i the Welsh cors, a marsh. 



Crook- WOOD. Near Urchfont ; derived probably from the Welsh 

 crug (anciently cruc, croc) a hill or tumulus. 



Crouch. A place close by Highworth is called Great Crouch. 

 This, like the name just explained, would seem to be a 

 form of the Cornish cruc, Welsh crug ( = a hillock, or 

 barrow) . 



19. Crendel. The name of a common in South Damerham, close by 



the border-hne of the county. This no doubt is the very 

 common term with which we meet in charters, viz. Crundel, 

 as marking some boundary-point. We meet with the name 

 as Crondal in Hants, and as Crundel in Kent. Kemble says, 

 of this obscure word, that it seems to denote a sort of water- 

 course, a meadow through which a stream flows. (Cod. 

 Dipl., III., xxi) . Leo (Anglo-Saxon Names of Places, p. 94), 

 gives a similar explanation, grounded on the form Orundwyll 

 which he finds in an ancient charter (Cod. Dipl., No. 956), 

 and explains it as " a spring, or well, with its cistern, trough 

 or reservoir, such as are still found in the banks by the side 



