88 The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 



from the way in which it is spelt in documents of the fourteenth 

 and fifteenth centuries, Tid/ilf-hide and Theodulf-hi&e, seems to be 

 the designation of a manor containing" a hide belonging at one time 

 to an owner named Theodulf. 



51. Again, any Wiltshire man knows what is meant by a linch, '! 

 or, as sometimes we have it in a diminutive form, linchet. It is the 

 Anglo-Saxon Kline, which signifies a ridge of land, and is applied 

 in Wilts to the boundary ridges thrown up for the purpose of 

 separating one property or parish from another. Hence Junius 

 defines it, " agger limitaneus parcechias dividens."" It is applied to 

 such ridges, or balks, of varying extent. The place now called 1 

 Trafalgar, in memory of the great Lord Nelson, was previously termed 

 Stanlinch. This is evidently the Anglo-Saxon stdn-hlinc, i.e., the 



" stony linch " (Andrews and Dury in their map give the name as 

 Ston-ley). Not far from this place, and in the same parish of 

 Downton, you have a place called Red-linch. This, it is conjec- 

 tured, refers to the red, perhaps gravelly soil of the " linch," from 

 which it derives its name. 



Two more instances may be given under this class of names. 

 The Anglo-Saxon word hivisc means a " small estate/'' Hence the 

 word Huish or Hewish, which is but another form of the original 

 term. Near Chippenham you have it in a compound word. Harden- 

 huish neans Harding' s-estate. In the Domesday record, though he 

 did not possess at that time this particular manor on which has been 

 imprinted the name of his family, Harding is recorded to have held, 

 in the time of Edward the Confessor, property in its immediate 

 neighbourhood. In fact one of the Titheringtons belonged to 

 him. 



III. — Names of places derived from those of owners or occupiers 

 of the land. 



52. We have in the various ancient charters a large list of 

 personal names. In the Wilts Domesday we have an account 

 of the names of numerous tenants both before and after the 

 Conquest. Moreover Wassenberg has collected together, in his 

 Philological contributions to the Frisian language, a list pf -old 



