164. The A'eiv Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



and fields us Penerley, Denny, Fritham, Cocketts, Cammel 

 Green, and Flasket's Lane. As might be expected, the traces 

 of the Danes are very much less ; and I hardly like even to 

 venture on the conjecture that the various " Nashes " along 

 the coast are corruptions of nces. Here, in the Forest, we 

 have no Danish "thorpes" or "bys." There are no Carlbys, 

 as in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, but plenty of Old-English 

 Charltons, and Charlmoors, and Charlmeads. No Norse "'forces" 

 run here, as in the north of England, but only " rides." No 

 " denes " open out to the sea, as in Durham, but only " chines" 

 and "bunnies." No Jutish " ings " are dwelt in, as in Kent, 

 but only " tons" and " leys." Here, in fact, the people of 

 Cerdic have identified themselves with the land, and have left 

 their impress, now unchanged for more than thirteen centuries, 

 on all the towns, and hamlets, and homesteads. 



Thus we find on the eastern side of the Forest, formerly in 

 it, Eling, the Mark of the Ealingas, Totton, the Mark of the 

 Totingas ; on the south, Lymington and Pennington, the Marks 

 of the Limingas and Penningas ; and on the west, Fording- 

 bridge, the Mark of the Fordingas, and Ellingham, that is, 

 Adeling's Hamlet, Adelingeham, in Domesday, where some of 

 the neighbouring woods are to this hour called Adlem's 

 Plantations. 



We will not press, as a proof of descent, the number of 

 Old-English surnames, which may easily be collected in the 

 district. We must remember that they were not used, in our 

 modern sense, till long after the Norman Conquest ; and when 

 adopted, people were more likely to choose them from English, 

 than from Norman or other sources. Such evidence establishes 

 nothing. 



In other ways, however, do we find the Old-English nomen- 



