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refugee Duval, who once dwelt there. Cotehele is coed-hayle, " the 
wood hy the river." Penhale is "the head of the moor;" Tre- 
gantle, Pryce makes "the dwelling of danger." Thanckes, according 
to Polwhele, is "house of view." Jump was formerly called 
Trenaman's Jump ; and gump is Kornu for " a plain ; " while 
Trenaman signifies " the dwelling by the stone." 
Saxon as it looks, I believe Key ham is Keltic. The oldest form 
is simply Caine = " a ridge." Hamoaze is very doubtful. Carew 
derives it from ham and ose, " according to the nature of the place." 
It has been read "the wet oozy habitation;" taken from the ham- 
lets, hamaux, that were on its banks; traced to the fact (?) that a 
Dane called Ham was drowned there. Mr. Beal suggested the 
Gaelic amus = "protection, safety;" and Dr. Bannister made it 
" the water border," hem-uisg. To me the word seems neither 
Gaelic, Kornu, nor Phoenician — certainly it is not French — but I 
am not at all sure it is not Teutonic, and probably Norse. Ham 
may give us holm, " an island," and oaze may be the same word 
which we find in the river Ouse, which would equal "the island 
Avater," the wate'r where the island, i.e. Drake's, is. 
We now come to names of Saxon origin. The most distinctive 
feature of the Saxon water names current in this locality is the 
v?ov& fleet. It is always applied to a little stream having a tidal 
connection. Stonehouse Lake was once Stoke Damerel Fleet. 
There are Pomphlett on the Plyni, Coffleet on the Yealm, Flete 
and Pamnete on the Erme. Pomphlett and Pamflete are from the 
Saxon baum, "a tree," whence we have beam; Goffleet is simply 
GWe-fleet. 
Lake is used in a special sense as a channel, in which form it 
is applied to some of the Dartmoor streams. Millbrook Lake has 
no reference to " the lake-like expanse of the waters of the creek 
at high tide;" it is simply the channel that leads to Millbrook. 
Millbrook, of course, explains itself ; the associated name of 
Dodbrook, now almost forgotten, is more difficult. 
Dodda occurs as a personal name before the Conquest, and it 
may have originated from the water plant clod, which Verstegan 
says in his time was called by the boys "foxtail." It is more 
likely that Dodbrook came directly from the plant than imme- 
diately from the personal form, Dodda. 
Ford is common. Radford is " the red ford," as any one may 
see. 
