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NATURE NOTES 
“ Friday Street.” It is most remarkable that between Dorking and Horsham 
no less than four places bear this name, and, by the courfesy of the publishers, 
we are able to reproduce here the views of these four places. Several letters on 
the subject of this name have recently appeared in the Croydon Advertiser, 
“ h'rithway Street” and “Friday’s (that is ‘Frea’s’) tree” being among the 
etymologies suggested. Mr. Walker Miles invites further comments on a 
question he does not consider as settled ; and as our contribution to the discussion 
F>om a Photo by Alfred Iicddifty;.\ 
Beech Avenue at the Rookery, near Dorking. 
(From “ Field-Path Rambles.”) 
we would remark, (i.) that these places seem always small, detached, woodland 
hamlets, mostly on clay ; (ii.) that “street” is often used for a hamlet detached 
from a village, as in Gracious Street, Selborne, Epping Street, or Cobham 
Street, not always on a Roman road ; (iii.) that any little strip of paving in 
front of a row of cottages would be most important in days liefore drainage, on 
the clay ; and (iv.) that in a recent history of Surrey these place-names, with 
others derived from Woden and Thor, are held to mark the boundary-lines of 
territory occupied by the heathen (and rural) English in their slowly advancing 
war of occupation against the Christian (and town-loving) Romanised Briton. 
