Short Notes. 



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The Drulshes — this name I have never been able to ascertain the meaning of 

 — the Ordnance Survey adopts " Druses," but this is equally obscure (I once 

 saw in an old Dutch dictionary the word drwylslie—z, basket made of osiers 

 — ? were small hazel rods ever cut for that purpose ; Bareknap and Knoll 

 speak for themselves ; Boarsknap from its similitude to the back of a boar ; 

 Burton=Bere tun — the corn ton ; Chaye Croft=chalk croft (croft, an enclosure) ; 

 Piley=the meadow with piles in it ; Rowley=the rough meadow ; Whatley= 

 Wheatley?; Arbour=:shelter ; Southbrook— ? in Sussex certain meadows are 

 called " Brooks " ; Mabourn Hill— the maple stream hill ; Mapledore Hill:=the 

 maple water hill ; Swayne's Ford=the ford of Swayne ; Breach, originally La 

 Breche ; Lawn=an unploughed plain ; Garston=G3erstun=meadow ; Beast 

 Garston=Bede's Garston, the bedesman's pasture field ; Black George ; Wreath 

 =enclosed with a wreathed fence (?) , Rook Street ; Hunting Park ; Black- 

 house ; Paradise ; Press Mead; Oakridge ; Moot=the place of assembly ; 

 Cowridge ; Naplocks ; Shitbrook ; Newbury. At Zeals : — Tusshill— tuss=tufts 

 of grass ; Windbrook=the winding brook ; Rye Field ; Innock ; Lap wink 

 ? Lapwing ; Seart=sand ; Wolverton ; Yarn Barton, the place where yarn was 

 spread when weaving was carried on ; True Love ; Liverwort ; Stoney Oak ; 

 Broom (no doubt originally broom grew here) ; Frith=copse ; Long Moor ; 

 Grouthill=gravel hill; Sands. At Mere Park : — Oxen Lease; Malm Ground 

 — probably malm, or marl, was dug here ; Grub Close — grubbed from wood 

 probably ; Croomb Hill ; Holm Bush=Holly. Coalpit Ground— no tradition 

 why so called (also called Luddle's Mead) ; Bowling Green ; Primrose Knap ; 

 Raygrass ; Chantry Mead, originally belonging to a chantry ; Bullford ; 

 Forestone ; St. Kitts — this was the old name for what is now called Ivymead ; 

 Petticoat Lane — was a lane leading into Mere Mead by the old vicarage P Penicoat 

 — (I find the name of Penicoate in the churchwardens' book) ; Whitehill, 

 Whitemead, and Whitemarsh ; Hazel holt=hazel copse ; Pimperlease ; Brimiey 

 Furlong=bramble furlong. At Zeals: — The Dean; Long Moor; Halves; 

 Greenacre; Cockfield ; Bennets ; Butchers; Bears; Brattons; Boots; Bannisters; 

 Benjies. 



The following derive their names from former owners or occupiers:— In Zeals: 

 Foots, Guyers, Hewitts, Hibditch, Hoopers, Jacobs, Kitt's, Palmers, Marvins, 

 Kings, Plucknetts, Penny's, Staffords, Steels, Streets, Shooter's, Roles, Seagrams, 

 Youngs, Watts, Welch's, Wardens. In Mere : — Alford's, Berjews, Browns, 

 Butts, Bishop's, Balls, Bannisters, Bartletts, Buckets, Clarks, Chisletts, Clements, 

 Carey's, Davis's, Dews, Dodingtons, George's, Doggrell's Acre, Ellis's, Frith's. 

 Fleets, Fishers, Gamlyn, Fry's, Farrers, Horsington's, Hinks, Hunts, Hewetts, 

 Hibberds, Hobbs', Hunters, Hurdles, King's, Limper's, Lyons, Legs, Lights, 

 Lucas's, Luddles, Millards, Morris, Narbone's, Pitmans, Pains, Perry's, Pedlars. 

 Poyntingtons, Rings, Ropers, Stride's, Resins, Sniggs's, Shadwell's, Swaynes, 

 Sherrings, Smarts, Strongs, Sheppards, Semmingtou's, Tumblers, Taylor's, 

 Wallis's, Whitemead, The Grove, Addymead, Clapgates, Ashwell or Ashfiold, 

 Peashill, Dean's Close, Dyehouse Paddock, Ivy Mead, Little Marsh, Whitemarsh, 

 Leighmarsh, Ridge, Westcomb, Yansettles. 



I find in old documents names now entirely lost : — Bealings, occupied by Giles 

 Jupe, 1775 ; Chisman's, probably near Barrow Street, as in 1775 it was occupied 

 by Wm. Gray; Bumhayes, Noah Stephens, occupier, 1775, probably near 



