Short Notes. “55 
The Drulshes—this name I have never been able to ascertain the meaning of 
—the Ordnance Survey adopts “ Druses,” but this is equally obscure (I once 
saw in an old Dutch dictionary the word druylshe=a basket made of osiers 
—P? were small hazel rods ever cut for that purpose ; Bareknap and Knoll 
speak for themselves; Boarsknap from its similitude to the back of a boar ; 
Burton=Bere tun—the corn ton ; Chaye Croft=chalk croft: (croft, an enclosure) ; 
Piley=the meadow with piles in it; Rowley=the rough meadow; Whatley= 
Wheatley ?; Arbour=shelter; Southbrook=? in Sussex certain meadows are 
called “Brooks”; Mabourn Hill=the maple stream hill; Mapledore Hill=the 
maple water hill; Swayne’s Ford=the ford of Swayne; Breach, originally La 
Bréche ; Lawn=an unploughed plain; Garston=Gerstun=meadow ; Beast 
Garston=Bede’s Garston, the bedesman’s pasture field ; Black George; Wreath 
=enclosed with a wreathed fence (?), Rook Street; Hunting Park; Black- 
house; Paradise; Press Mead; Oakridge; Moot=the place of assembly ; 
Cowridge ; Naplocks ; Shitbrook ; Newbury. A¢ Zeals :—Tusshill—tuss=tufts 
of grass; Windbrook=the winding brook; Rye Field; Innock; Lapwink 
? Lapwing ; Seart=sand ; Wolverton; Yarn- Barton, the place where yarn was 
spread when weaving was carried on; True Love; Liverwort; Stoney Oak ; 
Broom (no doubt originally broom grew here); Frith=copse; Long Moor; 
Grouthill=gravel hill; Sands. At Mere Park :—Oxen Lease; Malm Ground 
—probably malm, or marl, was dug here; Grub Close—grubbed from wood 
probably ; Croomb Hill; Holm Bush=Holly. Coalpit Ground—no tradition 
why so galled (also called Luddle’s Mead); Bowling Green; Primrose Knap; 
Raygrass ; Chantry Mead, originally belonging to a chantry ; Bullford ; 
Forestone; St. Kitts—this was the old name for what is now called Ivymead ; 
- Petticoat Lane—was a lane leading into Mere Mead by the old vicarage P Penicoat 
—(I find the name of Penicoate in the churchwardens’ book); Whitehill, 
Whitemead, and Whitemarsh ; Hazel holt=hazel copse; Pimperlease; Brimley 
Furlong=bramble furlong. At Zeals:—The Dean; Long Moor; Halves; 
Greenacre ; Cockfield ; Bennets ; Butchers; Bears; Brattons; Boots ; Bannisters; 
Benjies. : 
__ The following derive their names from former owners or occupiers: —In Zeals: 
_ Foots, Guyers, Hewitts, Hibditch, Hoopers, Jacobs, Kitt’s, Palmers, Marvins, 
; Kings, Plucknetts, Penny’s, Staffords, Steels, Streets, Shooter’s, Roles, Seagrams, 
Bvoungs, Watts, Welch’s, Wardens. Jn Mere :—Alford’s, Berjews, Browns, 
_ Butts, Bishop’s, Balls, Bannisters, Bartletts, Buckets, Clarks, Chisletts, Clements, 
_ Carey’s, Davis’s, Dews, Dodingtons, George’s, Doggrell’s Acre, Ellis’s, Frith’s, 
7 Fleets, Fishers, Gamlyn, Fry’s, Farrers, Horsington’s, Hinks, Hunts, Hewetts, 
_Hibberds, Hobbs’, Hunters, Hurdles, King’s, Limper’s, Lyons, Legs, Lights, 
- Lucas’s, Luddles, Millards, Morris, Narbone’s, Pitmans, Pains, Perry’s, Pedlars, 
_ Poyntingtons, Rings, Ropers, Stride’s, Resins, Sniggs’s, Shadwell’s, Swaynes, 
Sherrings, Smarts, Strongs, Sheppards, Semmington’s, Tumblers, Taylor's, 
ws Whitemead, The Grove, Addymead, Clapgates, Ashwell or Ashfield, 
Peashill, Dean’s Close, Dyehouse Paddock, Ivy Mead, Little Marsh, Whitemarsh, 
_ Leighmarsh, Ridge, Westcomb, Yansettles. ; 
I find in old documents names now entirely lost :—Bealings, occupied by Giles 
dupe, 1775 ; Chisman’s, probably near Barrow Street, as in 1775 it was occupied 
. Wm. Gray; Bumhayes, Noah Stephens, occupier, 1775, probably near 
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