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Wore Marsh, -n The first is by Wootton Bassett, the second by 

 WiER Gate, t Sharncote on the border of the county, the third 

 Whyr Farm. 3 by Broad Hinton. We also have the name Wher 

 by Berwick Bassett, and a place called The Wire, by Broad 

 Hinton. I am inclined to think that, at all events, some of 

 them are but provincial pronunciations of Oare, already 

 explained, (§ 29) and denote the fact of the place so named 

 being on " a boundary,"' — it may be of a hundred, or of a 

 manor, or of the county itself. There is a Welsh word 

 gwyran which means " coarse rushy grass " which may per- 

 haps explain some of them. The remarks (in § 10) on the 

 name Were also deserve attention, especially in the case of 

 such of them as may be on, or near, a stream. 

 Yarnbury. a name given to some ancient earthworks on the 

 downs, a few miles to the west of Stonehenge. It is pro- 

 bably from the Welsh cam (=:a heap of stones) the c or g 

 being often softened into y (compare the German gam, 

 English yam, &c). There is a Yarn-brook near Westbury, 

 and a Yarn-ton in Oxfordshire, which may be possibly derived 

 from the same source. [By the way, there was an old proper 

 name, in Friesic, Jaare, which if classed with nouns ending 

 in e would have its genitive ease in an, e.g./«arara,that desei-ves 

 attention. Certainly some of the large artificial mounds 

 and barrows were called after the names of persons e.g., 

 Cwichelmes-hlsew (= Cuckhamsley) in Berks, &c.] 



Concluding Remarks. 



35. Enough, it is hoped, has now been placed before our readers 

 to show th e strong Celtic elemen tUh at pervade s our Local Nomen - 



^ There are a few names of places which seem likely enough to be Celtic, but 

 of which I have as yet seen no satisfactory account, neither am I able myself to 

 give one. In the hopes of eliciting enquiry, and receiving suggestions from 

 some who may have made the Celtic languages and dialects their study, 1 give 

 a list of them. The forms in italics represent their more ancient forms, where 

 I am able to give them. 



Cheehill, Chiriel, — Fighei.bean, FisgUdene, FygheUen, — Oakset, 

 Wochesie, m.Ziesey,— Pottern, Po<erne,— Katfin (near Bulford), Sothefen, 

 Rote/en, (in Domesday) i2o<e/eWe, — Saveknake, ^d/cr« Jc, — Sxebklet, 

 Sterchelie. 



