320 SYLVAN WINTER. 



nuisance, the natural love for trees has returned, 

 and in England especially,'*where trees are loved, 

 as perhaps they are never loved elsewhere, has 

 the tree-love suggested the names of places. 



Oftentimes it will be found that the link is 

 lost which connects the particular name of a 

 place with the trees that suggested it. The 

 particular trees may have been cut down long 

 ago and forgotten ; but the name survives to 

 perpetuate its sylvan history. There may be no 

 more a wood of Limes at Lyndhurst, there may 

 be no Oaks at Oakville, Elms at Elmley, or 

 Ashes at Ashton; but still the names will 

 always suggest at least a probability of sylvan 

 origin. 



In giving the names, which will follow, of 

 towns and villages, and even cities with a sylvan 

 ring about them, it is by no means suggested 

 that, in every case, they were originated in con- 

 nection with trees ; and to have investigated 

 every instance given would, it is obvious, have 

 involved nearly the labour of a lifetime. What is 

 stated, is stated suggestively, and with the hope 

 that to those who live in towns with sylvan names, 



