460 A DISSERTATION ON THE 
To complete the design, in bringing before you 
this Dissertation, one consideration only remains. 
Allusion has been made to other names, denoting 
residences, besides those already discussed. 
Among these, is that of Worth, which it may be 
worth while to explain, as supplying negative 
testimony to the general accuracy of the state- 
ments made, and the bearing of the facts produced, 
to support the truth of the novel explanations 
which have been given on this novel subject. 
While the Anglo-Saxon “tiin” signifies a pro- 
prietor’s establishment, on a large scale, the 
Anglo-Saxon ‘‘ worth” was the name given to 
their off farms. On such farms were built a 
residence or residences for the accommodation of 
the cultivators, and either the name of the resi- 
dent given to the “ worth ” or a designation from 
any local feature of the place. It is hence, that 
from the pure Anglo-Saxon character of the sur- 
rounding district, we have so many names of the 
old Anglo-Saxon farms remaining among us, as 
Ainsworth, Failsworth, Pilsworth, Unsworth, 
Whitworth: Of these names too, when the first 
occupier’s name is prefixed, that name is never of 
the patronymic form: and this, because of the 
secondary character of such place and persons, and 
the more recent formation of such divisions. For 
