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Saxon is a pasture in a forest), Ashmanhaitgli 

 (' haugh ' — from Anglo-Saxon haef, an enclosure, 

 or Tiaga, 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, A shurst (Ash-hurst, hurst 

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

 wood or grove), Ashwater, Ashwell, Ashwelthorpe 

 (welthorpe may possibly be read wold-thorpe, from 

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

 thorpe — from the Saxon thorpe, Danish dorp or 

 torp, and German doTf — meaning a dwelling-place, 

 homestead, or hamlet), Ashwick {luicJc — from the 

 Latin vicus, Saxon wic or wye — means a village or 

 mansion), Ashwicken {wichen may be the old plural 

 of wick), 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 

 hace or hoc, the Saxon for Beech), Beaminster 

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



