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enclosed, It is on the high ground near the station, where 
stones are abundant and near the surface, and so the owner 
would naturally enclose with a stone wall, and the field would 
be a wall tyning. 
Barton is the enclosure for holding the ricks, originally chiefly 
barley ricks—whence its name, beretun, the ton or tun coming 
from the same word as tyning.* The word is still in common 
use for a farmyard, but formerly in some cases it stretched 
further, and a Barton was the manorial farm not let out to tenants 
but retained in the lord’s own hands. This accounts for the 
name Barton Farm (we have one in Bitton), and near Bristol was 
the large Royal demesne of Barton Regis, which still remains as 
the name of the Hundred, though, perhaps, better known as the 
name of the Poor Law Union. In Bitton the name only occurs 
otherwise as part of the surroundings of a farmhouse, though in 
some cases it is sufficiently large to be separately named, as Mow 
Barton. 
Paddock is a word that has much puzzled the etymologists. 
In its present form it does not appear in English literature till 
the latter half of the 17th century, and its earlier form was 
parroc, or pearroc. In that form it is a very old word for an 
enclosure, almost of any sort. King Alfred speaks of the world 
as a parrok,t and as parrock it probably lasted till changed into 
paddock, though very few examples, or none, can be found after 
the beginning of the 16th century. It is this change that puzzles 
the etymologists, the change from the double “r” to the double 
“d,” of which no other examples can be found except in the 
Lancashire use of poddish for porridge. Park is the same word | 
etymologically, but the park was always a large enclosure for 
* Barn comes from the same root. It was originally Bern or Bernes, 
and Bern=bere-ern, a storehouse for barley.—Ayenbite of Inwyt.— 
Glossarial Index. 
+ Thisum lythum parrocce.—King Alfred—trans, of Boethius. 
