82 The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 
(gers-din), near Malmesbury, means simply the “ grassy hill.” Pur- 
TON, in the same neighbourhood, from its original spelling, pirig-tin, 
would seem to mean the village where the pear-éree flourished. From 
ellen-diin (= the hill of elder-trees) you have EL1neTon, a name now 
superseded by that of Wroughton, of which parish it forms part. 
The wild broom (Anglo-Saxon drdm) gives its name to Sours 
Broom, near Devizes, as well as to Bromuam, in the same locality. 
(4) Those derived from the animal kingdom. 
Under this division will be placed Swinsrook, the name of a small 
stream in Pomeroy, on theSomerset border,so called probably from the 
swine that revelled among the acorns of the adjoining wood. SropFoLD, 
the name of one of the ancient hundreds, is the Anglo-Saxon stdéd- 
fald, a word of frequent occurrence in boundaries, and means simply 
the “ fold for horses” (the words steed and stud being still familiar 
to us as connected with horses), and SrupLey has much the same 
signification. Fuaeizston, if the former part be not a corrupt or 
shortened form of some personal name, is perhaps from the Anglo- 
Saxon fugel ( =a bird or fowl), and may be so termed from the wild 
fowl that frequented the neighbourhood of the Wyly and the Nadder, 
near the confluence of which streams it is situated. Of the derivation 
of Ramspury, however specious the disguise in which it appears, we 
can have no doubt. Its original name was Hrefnes-byrig (= raven’s 
bury), and its Bishops (for at that place was the seat of the ancient 
bishopric of Wiltshire) fully understood its meaning when they 
signed themselves “ Episcopi Corvinensis Ecclesie.” In its immediate 
vicinity is a place called Crow-woop. 
(c) Those derived from the mineral kingdom. 
One of the Wiltshire Hundreds is called Cuak, and within it 
are the parishes of Broad-Chalk and Bower-Chalk. Srxnp, and 
SAND-RIDGE, which is in its immediate vicinity, are so called from 
the light sandy soil that is to be found there. From the Anglo-Saxon 
clif, clyf ( =a rock or cliff) come a number of names, such as CLIFF- 
Prearp, Crrrr-Wancey (now corrupted into Clevancy), Ciirton, and 
the like. The compounds from the Anglo-Saxon stén (= stone) 
are very numerous. We have not a few places of the name of 
Sranton in Wilts. Near Hungerford we have a StanpEn, and by 

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