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other plant that would be so named), Bean leaze, the Ashes, 
Rusley Paddock and Rushmoor, French Grass ground, Short grass, 
Lime combe, spelt also Lincombe, and so perhaps the same as the 
Bath Lindcombe and interpreting it, and Holly Guest. I can 
find no meaning for guest in this name but I suppose it is the 
same as ‘“gast” or “gist” in Sidgast and MHaygast, the 
names of other fields, and which may take their name from the 
sedge ; or the one may be a sideland piece, and the Holly in the 
other field may be a corruption of hollow. | 
The position of fields is shown by such names as Lauthorn 
Bottom, Sidelands, The Lakes, a piece in the meadows formerly 
always covered with water in the winter, but now drained, The 
Island, a piece formed from two channels of the Boyd, of which one 
is now stopped, and the field is no longer an Island, Holm mead, 
once literally an island meadow in winter but now drained, the 
Hams, the well-known name for meadows near a river, and the 
Cleeves, a steep field or cliff.. The nature of the field is shown in 
such names as the Sands, Dry Ground, Dry Hill, Dry Tyning or 
Burnt-baked Ground and Stickmore Grove; and the shapes of fields 
in such names as the Leg (curiously like the map of Italy with 
the foot turned to the right instead of the left) Pond Leg, three_ 
cornered patch, Hatchet piece, the Harp (another field was called 
“Le Harpe in Bitton feld ” in 5, Henry VIII.), Carpenter’s square, 
and Spectacle acre. This last was a curious piece of land with 
two circles and a narrow connection which probably owed its 
shape originally to the course of water, and which I well recollect 
in Holmead before the meadows were enclosed. 
A very large number of fields are named after proper names, 
but of that I shall say very little, for no names are so subject to 
change. It was long ago marked as a sign of unwise men that 
“they think their houses shall continue for ever and they call 
the lands after their own names,” for such names soon pass away, 
and almost naturally so and without effort. Even if anew owner 
does not wilfully blot out such remembrances of the former 
