88 The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 
from the way in which it is spelt in documents of the fourteenth 
and fifteenth centuries, Tidu/f-hide and Theodulf-hide, seems to be 
the designation of a manor containing a hide belonging at one time 
to an owner named Theodulf. 
51. Again, any Wiltshire man knows what is meant by a inch, 
or, as sometimes we have it in a diminutive form, Zinchet. Itis the 
Anglo-Saxon hdine, which signifies a ridge of land, and is applied 
in Wilts to the boundary ridges thrown up for the purpose of 
separating one property or parish from another. Hence Junius 
defines it, “ agger limitaneus parcechias dividens.” It is applied to 
such ridges, or balks, of varying extent. The place now called 
Trafalgar,in memory of the great Lord Nelson, was previously termed 
Srantinc#. This is evidently the Anglo-Saxon stén-hlinc, i.e., the 
“stony linch” (Andrews and Dury in their map give the name as 
Ston-ley). Not far from this place, and in the same parish of 
Downton, you have a place called Rep-tinen. This, it is conjec- 
tured, refers to the red, perhaps gravelly soil of the “linch,” from 
which it derives its name. 
Two more instances may be given under this class of names. 
The Anglo-Saxon word divisc means a “ small estate.” Hence the 
word HvisH or Hewisu, which is but another form of the original 
term. Near Chippenham you have itin a compound word. Harpen- 
HUISH neans Harding’s-estate. In the Domesday record, though he 
did not possess at that time this particular manor on which has been 
imprinted the name of his family, Harptne is recorded to have held, 
in the time of Edward the Confessor, property in its immediate 
neighbourhood. In fact one of the Titheringtons belonged to 
him. 
III.—Names of places derived from those of owners or occupiers 
of the land. 
52. We have in the various ancient charters a large list of 
personal names. In the Wilts Domesday we have an account 
of the names of numerous tenants both before and after the 
Conquest. Moreover Wassenberg has collected together, in his 
Philological contributions to the Frisian language, a list of old 

