Miscellaneous Words. 



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Chadenwich. ") The former place which in Domesday (p. 24) is 



C Haddington, i Chedelwich , and in Test, de Nev. (p. 153) C/iadewic/i, 

 is near West Knoyle, the latter by Wootton Bassett. In 

 both words, if they be not derived, as is possible, from some 

 personal name, the first syllable may be a form of the Welsh 

 coed (= wood), and, if so, the names would mean respectively 

 the " hamlet " and the " village " by the wood. 



Cheverel. The name of two villages not far from Devizes. Pryce 

 gives Cheverel (or Keverel) as the name of a Cornish village, 

 and explains it as meaning the "place of goats/'' It is 

 derived from the Welch gafr (= a goat). Compare the 

 Latin caper. If, as is possible, the last syllable be the Irish 

 and Gaelic all (Cornish als 3 old Welsh alt) which signifies a 

 " cliff/'' the name would mean " goat-cliff." 



Crow. Near Bingwood. This is possibly the Welsh craw, Irish 

 and Corn, cro, which means a hut or hovel, and also a fold. 



Caeedurburg. The ancient name for Brokenborough, where, says 

 Camden, the Anglo-Saxon princes had a palace. It is from 

 the Welsh caer (=a fort, city) , and dwr (=water) , and means 

 the " fort on the river." The English added their own ter- 

 mination hyrig (= castle) . 



24. Colerne. The former part of this name is probably the Welsh 

 and Cornish col (=peak) . Compare the Latin collis. The ter- 

 mination may be the Anglo-Saxon cem,& dwelling, or building 

 fit for residence. See Cod. Dipl. III., xvii. The whole 

 name .may thus mean the " dwelling on the hill," or summit. 

 At all events the situation of Colerne well warrants such a 

 description. 



The Derry. ") The former near Ash ton Keynes, the latter 

 Derry (Woods),-' close by Calne. 1 I cannot help thinking that the 

 root of both is the Welsh deriv (= oak) . Certainly, hard by 

 the former, there is a place called Oak-lake Bridge, crossing the 



1 Other derivations are suggested, which may be seen in Jackson's Aubrey, 

 (p. 39,) for Derry (Hill) near Calne. But it does not seem proboble that cither 

 a French, or mediaeval Latin word, should have been the origin of a name which 

 is found in a part of Wilts where Celtic designations are so numerous. 



