A PAPER 



READ BEFORE THE COTTESWOLD CLUB AT GLOUCESTER 



JANUARY 17th, 1893 

 BY 



The rev. A. R. WINNINGTON-INGRAM 



(RECTOR OF LASSINGTON) 



ON THE ORIGIN OF NAMES OF PLACES WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 

 ITS FOLK-LORE AND TRADITIONS ; AND A 

 SHORT ACCOUNT OF THIRTEEN PARISHES IN GLOUCES- 

 TERSHIRE BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION 



The science of the derivation of names, whether of 

 places or of men is very interesting, and one which 

 provides the student of it with continual entertainment and 

 instruction. As he travels about he is furnished, as it were, 

 with a lantern to illuminate the dark and obscure meaning 

 of the names of the places and of the people that he 

 meets, and what is mere senseless jargon to others 

 becomes to him full of signification. 



Wherever he goes he traces with delight indications of 

 the former appearance of the country, of the original 

 dwellers in it, of their faiths, of their modes of life, and of 

 their achievements. But in order to see all these things a 

 light is necessary, and that light is a knowledge of the 

 origin of names. 



To enter the better into our subject, let us turn our 

 thoughts back many centuries, and behold with the mind's 



