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water was lost, and the hanging stone no longer existed, then the 
Catte of Hingston became Catte water, and Hingston itself Catte- 
down. 
The only trace of Roman influence in local names is in the 
well-known Ridgway, and the problematical Darseott Lane, which 
is at times called Dark Street, and treated as akin to Stratton. 
Let us turn now to a few names of the most distinctly local 
type. Stonehouse carries us back to the days when the lord lived 
in his timbered strength and the vassals in their huts of mud and 
wattle, and a house of "stane and lime" was a thing that the 
ancient Captain Cuttles, "when found," most rigidly "made a note 
of." Devonport is of course "the port of Devon," a very much 
more important name than the purely subordinate one of Plymouth 
Dock, which is a contraction of the original phrase, " the dock at 
Plymouth," the village of Stoke being too insignificant to give 
name to anything bigger than itself. 
Longroom takes name from the "long room" still extant, built 
there in the last century, when the gardens around were the local 
Ranelagh or Cremorne, and the resort of the beaux and belles of 
the Three Towns, who considered them quite in the country. 
Eastern and Western King have no meaning to us now except in 
their prefixes. King is clearly a corruption, and it may very well 
be of the Kornu cein, "a ridge." Millbay is one of our oldest 
local names. It dates back at least six hundred years ; for in the 
twelfth century Ralph de Valletort gave the monks of Plympton 
a site on its banks for a mill-dam, and there stood the mills whence 
the bay took its name. They were often called Surpool or Sourpool 
mills, the waters that stretched far and wide over what is now 
Union Street and its adjuncts being then called Sur Pool, or 
" the Upper Pool," to distinguish it from Sutton, the Lower, Pool. 
Lambhay has been derived by Mr. Real from lamh, Gaelic " hand," 
in reference to the strength shown by Corinseus when he hurled 
Gogmagog thence. Its oldest form is Lammy. L&mbhai/ would 
be merely " the lamb-field," a mode of expression very common in 
the east of the county. We have it as the Lammy, and Lammy 
Point, while now it is Lamhay Hill. Lam may = /an, " an en- 
closure;" and Lan-hayle would be "the enclosure on the river," 
or estuary. But it is impossible to decide. Castle Street and the 
Barbican recall the days of the foundation of the strong "castel 
quadrate," of which one of the entrance works still exists, and 
