The New Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



Stockleys, all from the Old-English leag ; in the various tons, as 

 Wootton, "Winkton, Everton, Burton, and Hinton ; in Gore and 

 Goreley, the muddy places ; in Culverley, the dove lea ; in the 

 Roydons and Rowdouns, the rough places ; in Rhinefield, the 

 brook field ; and in Brockis Hill, the badger's hill. 



Take only the very names of the fields and we shall meet the 

 same element, as in the Wareham field, the fishing place field ; 

 Conygers and Coneygar,* the King's ground, to be met in 

 every village ; in the linches, as Goreley Linch, that is, Goreley 

 Headland, or literally, the dirty-field headland; in Hangerley, 

 the corner meadow; Hayes, the enclosure, with all its com- 

 pounds, as Westhayes, Powelhayes, Crithayes, and Felthayes ; 

 in such terms as "SVithy Eyot, that is, Withy Island ; and the 

 different Rodfords " hrySeranford " the cattleford, the Old- 

 English equivalent to the Norman Bovreford. 



"We meet, too, in daily life, such words as hayward for the 

 North-Country "pinder;" barton, literally the barley place, in- 

 stead of the Keltic "crooyard;" the same Old-English element 

 in the names of the flowers, as bishop-wort (bisceop-icyrt), one of 

 the mints, from which the peasant makes his " hum- water ;" 

 cassock (from cassuc), any kind of binding weed, and cammock 

 (from cammec), any of the St. John's worts, or ragworts ; clivers 

 (from clife, a bur), the heriff; and wythwind, by which name 

 the convolvulus is still known, the Old-English " wi^-winde." 



north of Hampshire, in the shape of Nately Scures and Upper Nately 

 (Xataleie in Domesday) as the equivalent of Xatan Leah, the old name of 

 the Upper portion of the New Forest, see Dr. Guest, as before quoted, p. 31 . 

 * A Keltic derivation has, I am aware, been proposed for this word. It 

 is to be met with under various forms in all parts of the Forest. The Forest 

 termination den (denu) must, however, be put down to this source. See 

 Transactions of the Philological Society, 1855, p. 283. 

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