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tun or town on the Ocmund or Okement ; and he remarks, 

 " oddly enough, while the official form has been corrupted 

 into Oakhamton the word on the lips of the countrymen 

 has become Ockington, evidently a change due to the 

 commonness of clan-villages bearing analogous titles," such 

 as Cockington, near Torquay, formerly apparently a colony 

 of the English ; and East and West Alliugton, near King's 

 Bridge, apparently originally settlements of the Altings. 

 For these illustrations I am indebted to the same writer ; 

 but they occur in a different connection. In continuation 

 of the passage cited, he goes on to say, " Monk Oakhamton 

 (a different locality) has in like manner turned incon- 

 gruously into Monk Ockington." 



