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acquainted with the Cotteswold dialect is familiar with 

 the sound of " a " as " e," so that it is easily understood 

 that Coin Danes, or the Danes' Coin, would be called 

 Coin Deans. Of course, Deans is also a very possible 

 corruption of Denys, and if the popular name were Coin 

 Saint Deans, that might be the correct explanation. But 

 the " Saint " is dropped, whereas Coin St. Aldwyns, three 

 parishes south, is called by its right name, and never 

 called Coin Aldwyns. Pindrup, although close to the 

 Foss Way, and within a stone's throw of Coin St. Dennis 

 Church, is in the parish of Coin Rogers. At one time, 

 Mr Bubb tells me, it must have been a place of some 

 importance, and some remains of a moat around it still 

 exist. Coin Rogers, therefore, was probably a Danish 

 settlement, and it is significant, as well as curious, that 

 amongst its inhabitants recorded in Domesday Book was 

 " one foreigner." 



If, then, we admit the place-name Bibury to be of 

 Danish origin, the whole of the Coin X'alley from the 

 Foss Way to the Thames bears an unmistakable impress 

 of occupation by the only foreign enemies our English 

 forefathers had to fight against in England until they had 

 to bow their necks under the iron heels of the Norman. 





