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is met with three times in my own neighbourhood ; first as the name 
of a large tithing, where, from an ancient spelling W//-/eg, it is 
clearly the memorial of U/f, an owner in the time of the Confessor, 
—wnert as the name of a street in Bradford-on-Avon, where itis a 
corruption of Tooley, itself a contraction of St. Olave, to whom a 
chapel was dedicated in the street—just as Tooley Street, in South- 
wark, is so called from the church of St. Olave which is situated in 
it,—and Jastly as the name of a small parish connected with that 
of Bathwick, where, if we may draw conclusions from an old spelling 
Wilege, the name is certainly to be sought for in a source perfectly 
distinct from the other two. 
(c) Then of course there are cases here, as with Celtic Names, in 
which the original has been so altered as to defy the happiest conjecture. 
Among such apparently hopeless corruptions—stereotyped I fear 
in many instances by those who compiled the Ordnance Map for 
Wilts, and who would have been better friends to Philologists if 
they had taken with them some some one acquainted with the dialect 
of the county—is what now appears as Cuick CHANGLES wood, in 
_ the parish of East Overton. It is now some years ago, when, in 
: _ company with the late lamented Dr. Thurnam, I went over the 
- bounds of this parish, and we were both convinced that it was un- 
doubtedly the Scythangra spoken of in the charter relating to it 
(Cod. Dipl., 1120), a name that might fairly be Englished as Shot- 
hanger, and which means literally the ‘ ‘ shooting” or sloping “hanger,” 
 i.e., wood, on the declivity of a hill. | 
88, Such names as we are now about to consider are generally 
composed of two members, the one, which for the most part forms 
the termination, being a generic term, applicable to a number of 
places of a similar character, and denoting the nature of the settlement 
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1The Domesday Name looks as though it were connected with the Anglo- 
‘Saxon wileg (willow). There is however a charter relating to CHARLCOMBE, 
the neighbouring parish, (Cod. Dipl. iii., 455,) in which we meet with this 
"passage, ‘‘Of Cedlles-cumbe ést . . . to 34m weallon” i.e., ‘‘ From Chelscombe 
east . . . to the wells” (=springs);—if this be meant for Woottey, and it 
certainly is a very probable conjecture, that name really, like Wellow, is de- 
‘rived from the Anglo-Saxon reall (or sille) a “ spring (or well) of water.” 
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