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'■'■Thwaite, a field cleared of wood, A.-S. thwitan.''^ Crav. Gloss. 



" Thwaite, an open place or clearing." Edmunds. 



" Thwaite, a forest clearing." Taylor. 



" Thwaite, land that was once covered with, wood brought into 

 pasture and tillage." Halliwell. 



" Thwaite, land grubbed up and cleared of wood for cultiva- 

 tion, an assart. Norm. Pr. twaite ; the word in composition of 

 local names is very frequent in Cumberland and "Westmorland, 

 and also in some parts of Lancashire." Brockett. 



" Twait (an old law word, a wood grubbed up and turned to 

 arable), lois defriche" Chambord's Fr. Diet, and Worcester's 

 Engl. Diet. 



^^ Thwaite, a hamlet, a cluster of two or three houses." 

 Atkinson. 



Examples : — 



Burthwaite — 2. from Bur, A.-S., bower, residence, and thwaite, 

 a clearing. 



Black Tewthwaite— ? of Tiw, Ti, Tun, God of War. This 

 place is 1868 feet high, and near to Beldoo Hill and Moss. q.v. 



Blue Thwaite Hall. 



Borrenthwaite — ?from A.-S. horen, horn, horrenes, birth, or 

 brunn, a burn — clearing at a burn ? 



Brackenthwaite — of the bracken, the trees having been cleared. 



Crossthwaite — of the cross ; place of worship and market cross. 



Eoggerthwaite — 'ifogere, A.-S., a suitor, wooer. See Foggee- 



THWAITE. 



Gamathwaite — {Ganra-thwaite. The Gander clearing. Bell.) 

 See GAE,iirATB:wAiTE. 



Harthwaite — ? of the Hare or Hart. 



Hunderthwaite — " Probably anciently EMndredsTceld, Latine 

 autem centum fontes." Symeon of Durh., vol. i., p. 87. 



Thwaite Hall — near Eomaldkirk, and Keld is close by. 



There are personal names, as Garthwaite, pronounced Ga/rfut. 



TiMPTON Wood. 

 Perhaps Timpton's wood. 



