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not been derived from the names of their first 
owners and occupiers. 
Most of the residences of the early Anglo- 
Saxons, were built of wood. Hence one of their 
terms used for raising a dwelling, is timbrian, or 
getimbrian, to timber a house. The residences 
thus reared, whether to shelter man or beast, 
were known by the general name of his. If a 
fixed permanent residence, the Anglo-Saxons 
gave it the name of ham. If in the Anglo- 
Danish districts, after the Danish dynasty, the 
name of “bye,” was the common term. Where 
the Anglo-Saxons formed a farming establish- 
ment, with its cots, huts, shops, offices, &c., the 
name of tiin was assigned. Off farms belonging 
to the Anglo-Danish byes,—were named bers. 
Besides these were Thorps, Worths, Warths, 
Bolds, Booths, Bétles, according to their natures, 
and the localitiesin which they were temporarily, 
or permanently fixed. If in the ham and the tin, 
there was nothing remarkable in the place where 
it was located, it was named after its owner. If 
there was anything remarkable in its locality, it 
was so distinguished ; or if, from the casualty of 
the times, it was destroyed, and sprung up again 
after its first designation was lost, then it assumed 
