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remains now to consider the names themselves of places in the 

 neighbourhood. And this will form the subject of the concluding 

 portion of this paper. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE NAMES. 



D.D.B. — Domesday Booh. 

 * In F. Davis's Derbi/shire Place-Names. 



BURY. 



* Thornbury — D.D.B. Thornebury. Xorse Viking Thomi- 

 K. Draen, a bush, or thorn — Thornbury. 



DOWN. 



Charmy Down — G. Car, curved, mur, wall — curved wall down. 

 A circle of stones once existed on that down, but only one now 

 remains erect upon the earth circles. 



FIELD. 



Marshfield — D.D.B. Maresfield. G. marc, a horse or charger. 

 K. march, a horse, the boundary or line of march. 



Mangotsfield — G. manas, a farm. Sgot (pronounced Skot), a 

 small farm or village. K. man, a place. Cwt, a cot. The place 

 of a cot, or the farm of the small village. 



HAj\r. 



* Durham — K. dwi- or dwfr, water. The ham being sur- 

 rounded with two brooks, the Fel and Dur. 



* Hanham — K. Han, out of, or Hen, ancient. G. Hen in old 

 Gaelic names are frequently derived from water or from hill ; as 

 an or en water, or au or an, a hill ; as Henly on the Thames, 

 Hennock, Devonshire, Hanham green, Hanham house, and West 

 Hanham. D.D.B. Avonham. 



Felham — G. Feith (pronounced Fa), a fen, a bog, a moras, or 

 Foil-an — slow stream. 



LEY. 



Nailey-^G. ni (pronounced nye), cattle — cattle field. 

 Warmley— K. Gwern, a swamp, an open marsh — marshy field. 



