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Saxon is a pasture in a forest), Ashmanhaugh 

 (' haugh ' from Anglo-Saxbn haef, an enclosure, 

 or haga, a hedge ; Danish hauge, a garden 

 means a low-lying meadow), Ashmansworth, 

 Ashmore (mor in Saxon signified a hill, moran, a 

 root), Ashover, Ashow, Ashperton, Ashprington, 

 Ash Priors, Ashreigney, Ashtabula, Ashtead (Ash- 

 stead), Ashted, Ashton, Ashurst (Ash-hurst, hurst 

 or hirst, from the Saxon hurst or hyrst, meaning a 

 wood or grove), Ashwater, Ashwell, Ashwelthorpe 

 (welthorpe may possibly be read tvold-thorpe, from 

 the Saxon wold and weald, a wood or plain, and 

 thorpe from the Saxon thorpe, Danish dorp or 

 torp, and German dorf meaning a dwelling-place, 

 homestead, or hamlet), Ash wick (wicic- from the 

 Latin vicus, Saxon wic or wye means a village or 

 mansion), Ashwicken (wicken may be the old plural 

 of uncle), Ashworth, Bathurst, Baydon (in some 

 parts of America, a bay is a tract of land covered 

 with Bay trees), Bayfield, Bayford, Bayston, 

 Bayswater, Bayton, Bayril, Beach, Beachampton, 

 Beachley, Beaconsfield (a place of Beeches, from 

 bace or boc, the Saxon for Beech), Beaminster 

 (beam was the Saxon for a tree, and minster, 



