Tandridge Hundred Part II.-Oxted

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SU R R E Y E TY MOLOGI E S .

B Y G R A N V I L L E L E V E S O N - G O W E R E E . A S S . , Q , . .

TA N D R I D GE H U ND R E D . Part I I.

X O T E D .

KTE B - Acust de Anglo Saxon Charter , y ; Domesday S urv e A c st d e 2 E d r k e 7 wa d I . st O ede. y , ; Deed of , The Anglo - Saxon Charters in which it is mentioned are fE th lberh e t A D . 862 one of , king of Wessex , . and another

E A . i D . ZE th l 987. s e of thelred , The ﬁrst a deed whereby b erh t granted to his minister D rygh twald ten carucates of land at Bromley , and the boundaries of the grant are minutely described . This charter contains so many names of places in the immediate neighbourhood which Mr .

Kemble in his Index has not attempted to identify, that I think it well to transcribe it at length 1 These are the boundaries o f the said land fr om the n orth from 2 3 Ken le L ewi sh am g y to Langley, Bromley Mark , and f ’ then from Langley to the W on stockf then from the Won ‘ 6 7 Mo di n h am ld ark stock by g to Kent Style , then from

1 P art of th i s ch arter i s prin ted i n An Accoun t of E xcava ti on s a t K n b M r n an d h e h as identi ﬁed ev e al e t . G e e e s o , y org Cor r, s r of h l t e p aces . 0 2 Ceddanlea e K en le B id e i s at S uth end b et een L e i h am g , g y r g , o , w w s an d B ml ro ey . 3 4 L n in n h am L eofsh ema . a le Be e . g y, ck 5 t S tum H i ll Mr . n e u e Th e stump or post of W odin . Cor r s gg s s p ,

o b etween S outh en d an d Beck en h am . ” 6 em le c n e tu es M tti n h am b ut th e name Modi ngah ema . K b o j c r o g , h as di sa ppeared . 7 u e ts ent Gate on P a l as M r . n e i n t ti o ole. , C a S g rob b y, Cor r s gg s , K

i n S u e . th e borders of W i ckh am i n Ken t an d A ddi ngton rr y B Y E Y M L E S SURR E T O OC I .

1 Mo din h am an d Kent Style by g Mark to the Eagles Tree , from the E agles Tree the hedge of the Cray Settlers 3 from the east half divides it to L ea so n s Dene then from 4 L ea son s Dene to the Gulf ; then from the Gulf the hedge 5 of the Cray Settlers to Six Slaughters ; then from S ix Slaughters to Farnborough 6 Mark the Farnborough 7 Mark divides i t to Keston Mark ; the Keston Mark di vides it on the south towards the Watch Station ; then from the Watch Station Keston Mark to Wickham 9 Mark ; then the West Mark by Wickham Mark out t c 10 Beddlestea d ; then from Beddlestead to Oxted to Bee 11 n le n ham Mark from Oxted to Ke g y . Then belongi g 12 u there to that land five denes at the o twood , the nam 13 Br ox h am of this dene , the name of the other dene Sang 14 15 ? Billan or e tw ridge is the name of the third , then ” 16 la fi l denes at G p e d . A o- Oxted is the stede , the place of the Oak , a nam fi tl an c which must y h ave described it in ancient times , is singularly applicable in the present day . T o thi

1 E arn es b eame. ’ 2 Th tle on h i h n a d F t C re s etn a. e et t e e a e e g s rs r v r Cr y 5 c Cr yfor , oo ’

& . a S t . M a a c Cr y , ry s Cr y , 3 i M r . n u t L ea e G en but I th in k Li o wsan den e. e e e Cor r s gg s s v s r , ' l n am i s m e a L ea son s th e e a d i n udh am . or prob b y , of woo C 4 wl n ll ul S e e de a a . g , sw ow or g f 5 6 i or i n a i ox slih t r e. F r n b S ea g g . 7 i n n M 1 C s tan a . Th e n e i n C st ani n a i n t e t a y g co v rs o of y g o K s o , s ys n e i s elu idat ed b D m e da B i n wh i h th e la e i s alle Cor r, c y o s y ook, c p c c ’ h ta n h e h ei n n un h i v m n n m G e t c ed a d e th e de a e. s , b g pro o c r g s o r 3 S etle th e S tati n i n di ati n ba l th e R man tati n a , o , c g pro b y o s o n K esto . 9 W stm r P a l m e ea c. b W e t e en i n Tatsﬁeld rob y s or Gre . 10 Bi l Beddl t a m h e st d e. m es ead a i n h el a . pp y , f r C s 11 Bi h h h m a M r . n u t h a m an t B o e a . Cor er s gges s t e word m y e h e e

l u A i a al A - i n e . S ee L eo on n l a N . 16 S n a me . c os r or p ry so g o xo s, p 12 A e tai n a ll t men t l n c r o of wood a d i n th e W eald . 13 Broc esh am a a m etwe n E den i m e d e an d W e te h a . , f r b br g s r 14 S an h r i l S un d i d h i n n i n t et . P e as t at a h u d g yg oss b y r g , p r s r s ow l tt ea d . 1 Billan ora . Th i n ame i s l t but we fi n d i t men ti n ed i n Ch ar ts s os , o 5 18 as a t th e e t A n d red an d th e e de i bed as l e p r of for s of , r scr c os b L i nh ur t wh i h i s h n m a s t e a e a m n ea t o Brox h am . , c of f r r 16 Gl an eld I n h a t 5 t n e fipp f a . C r er 18 th i s pla ce i s m en i o d as part ‘ S h arnde fi h i h i s la e t i h a a t d n E den b id e a is . f, w c rg r c of woo r g p r SU R R E Y E TYMOLO Gl E S . 3

n 1 “ gives counte ance , says Salmon , the number of fat ’ u Hogs paid as Lord s Rent at the S rvey , which were an hundred . a li as f BIRSTED , BIERSTED , a manor in Oxted , and or d d merly part of the possessions of the Priory of Tan ri ge , ‘ b ear o is the stede , the place of the wood which sup s plied mast for fattening pigs , another allu ion to the th wooded character of e place . Bersted is the name of w Berh am st a village near Maidstone , hich occurs as ede - Ber stead in the Anglo Saxon Charters , and South is a village in Sussex . ' BR OAD EIAM l wr Brodeh am , ancient y itten , is another manor , and belonged formerly to the Abbey of Battle . ’

. o c It is the brad , broad or large inclosure The name i n - Brad anh am curs the Anglo Saxon Charters as , in that

of a place in Berkshire , Hampshire , and Worcestershire . Great and Little Bro adh am are the names oftwo meadows ’ Br a den es a li a s Bra dwn s on Titsey Court Farm . , y Crofts , occur as the names of ﬁelds at Titsey in a Court Roll of d 15 . R i o . II Bra , or Broad , is one of the commonest Bradan stede e. . preﬁxes we meet with ; g , Bradbourne , ,

now Brasted , in Kent Broadmoor Vale , near Leith Hill ,

i n . in Surrey ; and Broadwater , Sussex a li a s L A FOYLE , FOYLE , another manor , is Spelt in a ’ ll f lle F o e. d . Deed of 86 E w. III y y It is possible that y ,

the wild thyme , is the derivation of this word , places so

often taking their name from natural productions . It is

locally pronounced the File . Halliwell gives Foyle as a

- word for fallow land . ’ TT S , S TOKE , another manor , and a principal residence

i St ock ette , giving name to a fam ly of de la , or Stocket

whom we ﬁnd living there , and represented by John de

, la S tock ette in 12 E dw. III . Two members ofthe family

Katherine and Eleanor, were ladies of the household of

. Joan Lady Cobham , and are mentioned in her will The ﬁ ld former is buried in Li n g e Church , where there is a a bra ss to her memory . It is cle r that the place gave the

. name to the family , not the family to the place The

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’ origin of it is the Stoc , or inclosed place , which is the root of the numerous Sto kes that we ﬁnd all over

England . BAR R ow GREEN , the principal residence in the parish , has been supposed to take its name from a barrow . At ” 1 Oxted , says Manning , is a very large barrow or h tumulus , from which a capital ouse , called Barrow Green , takes its name ; an d in the Index he tells us that this barrow was thrown up by the Danes . A careful ex s o - di rec amination of the called barrow , made under the tion of the late Mr . J . Wickham Flower , has proved conclusively that it is nothing but a natural hill ; and ,

- disagreeable as it is to upset long cherished traditions , we must seek for the origin of the name from some other an source , since it is not reasonable to imagine that y place would take its name from a supposed resemblance to a barrow . I do not find the name earlier than a Court Bar o es 2 0 E dw. . w Roll of IV , where it occurs as tene ” “ ” Ber ewe -i n 14 ment , unless , a Court Roll of the th year of that king , be the same place . In a R ental of 1568 Bar o ren e it occurs as g , in a Survey of the Manor 1576 Bar o we i n 1577 ew of as Grene , a Rental of as Bar Barr owe Grene , and in a Rental of about the same date as ffi grene . The origin of it is not , I think , di cult to find .

A district in the parish was called the B orough , or , as it ”

12 i . R o . . is written in a Deed of II , The Bergh Men tion is there m ade of land a t the Bergh lying between the common called the Bergh and land of Rauf at Bour ; an d so Borough Green , which was the piece of waste in m this district , beca e corrupted by an easy process into an d - Barrow Green , the singular conical shaped hill at l once gave p ausibility to the idea of a barrow .

HURST GREEN, a common in the parish , called in a Deed

15 E dw. . le 1577 of IV Herst , and in a Rental of Herste n H r t l n e s e o d . gre e , and some land adjoining , It is from ’ the hurst , or wood , and points to the amount of wood u land formerly existing in the parish . H rst Field is a

ﬁeld in Caterham , Hurst Green is the name of a place on

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h - w the igh road bet een Tonbridge Wells and Hastings , and there is a parish near Blackburn so called . ME R R OL mm n MERLE , or Co o , a common on the borders Lim sﬁeld of p parish , and standing high , is a corruption ‘ ’ Mereh ill of , the boundary hill . In a Court Roll of

19 E dw. . 3 IV , and in a Deed of Hen . VIII . , I ﬁnd it Mer eh ill 1576 written , and in the Survey of , amon g the waste lands of Oxted it is described as the wa ste Meareh ill n or common called Common , containi g 28 acres . P E R R Y S FIE LD n ow , a principal residence , was formerly a part of the demesnes of Stockett , and under the name of P eri eslon d s formed one of the th ree shares into which

6 . that property was divided Hen VIII . In a Court

14: E d . w . P r es rov e Roll of IV occurs y y g , in one of E 19 d . w. P eri slon d P eri s ren e IV and g , and in a Rental 1 15 r of 77 P er yes . Isaac Taylor says that the names of u - h fr it trees are very unfrequent , wit the exception of the

- apple tree ; but , notwithstanding this remark , I believe that the derivation of this word is to be sought for in ‘ ’ i ri - - e . p g , the Anglo Saxon for a pear tree Pears were n ﬁn d o doubt cultivated as well as apples . We a small e - farm in Godstone called the P ar tree Farm , at which was an iron spring of great reputation . Purley , in San d erstead t Piril ea Pi rford , anciently wri ten Pirbright and , W oki n r r in the hundred of g , in this county , fo merly w itten P irifrith Pirifor d ar e l ﬁ° om and , probab y the same source , and not , as Manning says , from the name of some ancient r proprietor . Pi i , Perie , or Pirie is old English for a

- b pear tree , and is used by Chaucer in his Canter ury Tales : But for h er lorde sch e d urste n ot don e Th at sat e ben eth e an d pleyed bym m erye ’ Before th e towre un d ur a perye.

In the Survey of 1576 two ﬁelds are mentioned i n Broad

G Cr o fte. ham , called the Peare rofte and the Little Peare

On Addington Lodge F a rm is a ﬁeld of the same name .

- O n Foyle Farm is a ﬁeld called Pear tree Field . Perry

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field is the name of some land close to Maidstone ; and the re are numerous places in the Anglo - Saxon Charters P ir i tun P ritun n ow which ha ve this prefix ; c . g . g and y , ’ l i rit o n i n l Vi ltsh i re a n d Pi ri fleat P urfleet . , g , , in Kent G INCOCKS i n , the name of a farm the parish , also one

of the three shares into which Stockett was divided . We must at once discard the popular tradition which would a scribe it to the casks of gin brought hither by smug

l rs a wr . g e . It is an old n me variously itten In a Court

k 19 E dw. . 2 H on . . Ja n ec o c s Roll of VI , ; in one of IV ,

Jen ko ks w 4 . . ; in a Vie of Frank Pledge , Hen VIII , kk s G en n oco ck s i n 6 . . G n co c ; a Deed of Hen VIII , y ; k a n d a 1577 Gen coc s . in a Rent l of , Some lands called Co kesla n d s and Coks Riden are constantly mentioned in

ll 19 E d . a w . the early deeds , and in a Court Roll of IV Cokeslan d s ro e n k k Cokeslan d p p Je o s occurs . I take w ’ to be an o ner s name , and to have been the land of a or certain Coke Cox , as in the Computus Roll of 85 ” E dw. . a ﬁrm a a u III ppears terr e q ondam Cokes , and Jen co ck s to have been the possession of some member of that family and in support of this somewhat prosaic derivation I have the authority of the earliest ortho 2 graphy of the word , Hen . VI . , wherein it is spelt J n k a eco c s .

’ n FOYLE RIDDEN , the ame of a small farm , is the Riden or grubbed ground near the Foyle it occurs as F ollrid i n 16 6 . E 8 d . w . ing s a Court Roll of Eliz In III , in 15 E d w. . 1577 IV , and in , we ﬁnd a district called the d R dd en s a Ry en or y , tract of woodland doubtless which

had been brought into cultivation .

'‘ I fa S UN , a rm bordering upon Crowhurst parish , written

Suns in some of the early deeds . In a Court Roll of 1568 , a lia s a li a s I meet with Merrells , Hunts , Scrivens , a n d i n a 1577 a li a s u t a Rent l of , Hunts , S n s . It is clearly ’ 8 a possessor s name , although the ﬁnal is now lost . It is d b i n 1577 100 escri ed as consisting of acres , and at the 110 present time it is about , a remarkable instance of n i n how little cha ge it has undergone three centuries . A LLE Y LAND ’ S , possibly connected with aller , a name for th e a d - . l er tree This land is situated near the brook . E SURR Y ETYMOLOGIES . 7

- In the upper part of the parish , on Flint house Farm , is t d 1649 a ﬁeld called Gorse Alley , men ioned in a eed of but this was probably a gorse ﬁeld with alleys or road ways cut in it .

ROSE LANDS , a name still preserved in Rose Farm . In

4: E d a Court Roll of 1 w. IV . mention is made of Rose ” lan d str ete Br d h m between Hall Hill and o e a . In a View

4 . of Frank Pledge of Hen VIII . , land is named called

. 1 2 . Le Rose In a deed of Phil Mary, and in a

19 l . s . Rental of E iz , it occurs as Roseland It was very usual for lands to be held by the nominal rent of a rose , h and t is is probably the origin of the name . In a Deed I l 1 E dw. I 8 I . e of , John , son of Richard Smith , covenants

S tan r av e Kt . to pay yearly to Sir Robert de g , , and Lady

Johan , his wife , a rose at the feast of the Nativity of

- St . John Baptist for two pieces of meadow land in Oxted T a t sﬁeld 1641 and in a Court Roll of , , Richard Hayward

- is said to hold Bassets meade by rent of a red rose . Br oomlan d s Roses Field , on Farm , in Titsey , may be named , perhaps , from the same cause ; and on Kingsland

Farm , in Farley , are two places called Rose Field and ’ w F Tatsﬁ eld Rose Sha ; and on Goddard s arm , in , Little and Great Rose Field .

HALL FARM , HALL HILL . This farm , otherwise known as the Hall , was formerly part of the possessions of the

Broa dh am . Abbey of Battle , and went with the Manor of It points to the existence of an old house or hall at this 1 place .

STONEHALL , now a principal residence , is a compara ti l ve y modern name . It represents the ancient Stone ” hamme , the site of an old habitation , and mentioned in n the Computus Roll of 85 E dw. III . The cha ge to Stonehall is probably due to some former owner for . whom the old Saxon name had no charm in comp arl s on i w th the modern hall , and is one instance among many of the ruthless way in which old names are sacriﬁced to the vulgarism of modern taste . Aubrey mentions Stone ham Lane as the name of a lane in Caterh am .

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’ ' '‘ n rrs a lia s KNA I TS . S att S NA , , is a possessor s name r 1640 occurs i n th e parish registe of Oxted in , and in a i n Subsidy Roll of 15 Car . II . as Snet . I find also the Lim sfield 1706 arish register of p , in , the name of tt l ich ard S n a , and the greater part of this farm is in Tats field 1561 l . Limps fie d In a Rental of , , is some land called S n ates .

15 E . dw. Co LTsronn MILL . In a Court Roll of IV this

10 19 E dw. . a ppears a s Collys atte Mille, in IV Colts at

M a n d i n 29 . Coles ett . ill , a deed of Eliz as Mill I can h . t e give no explanation of the two latter If former , w hich is the name it now bears , is in reality the ancient form handed down by oral tradition (and local p r on un c ia ti on will often afford the key to the meaning of a word which in Written documents has become hopelessly cor ’ r u t d - p e it will be the Colt s ford . We find the names of animals in connection with fords in Oxford ; Hert ’ ’ - - ford , the stag s ford ; Swinford , the swine s ford ; Gat ’ d - e. . for , the goat s ford Horsford and of birds also g , 2 E rn in for d the eagle and the goose in g and Gosford . In 5 E d 8 w. . the Computus Roll of Oxted Manor , III , a Gos efor de field is mentioned called , and in an Extent Lim s fi ld 5 E e dw. . of p Manor , II , is a field of the same n a me . n EARLS Woo , GREAT and LITTLE ; spelt in a deed of 1782 E erles conveyance of y Wood . We find the same n a i n me Earlswood Common , near Red Hill . References , 3 a s ys Leo , are very numerous to the customary and d ju icia l modes of life and to the different national grades ;

- c . Th en les g ham , the dwelling of a prince Ceorlatun

a t - (Ch rl on) , the village of peasants . Earls wood is the wood of the eorl or earl , just as Charlwood , in the lower a t - le- p r of the County , still locally pronounced Chur wood , ’ ’ c eorle s w is the or peasant s ood . In a Court Roll of 19 E d w. . m L or deslan IV mention is ade of ds , n ear Earls Tatsﬁ eld Wood and in is a ﬁeld called Lords Mead .

1 Th e n ame Ch everills n t1ee(1 un der T1ts e . 63 aff d a of o y, p , or s good i ns ta n e th i c of s . 2 a l . A n . 3 . 60 C r g p 7. N a me lac es . 2 3 s q , p . ’ ‘ SURREY E l YMOLOGIE S . 9

K GIBBS BROO , the name of the stream that divides Oxted

. i n and Crowhurst It is an old name , and is met with : 1 E 4 dw. the following forms In a Court Roll of IV . occurs Gibbys Mede ; in a View of Frank Pledge of

4 . . Ch e sb r ook e Henry VIII , Regia via vocat p ; in a Deed 85 i 1 85 2 . G es . of Phil Mary , pp Brooke In a Survey of

19 . ar e the Manor of Oxted , taken Eliz , the boundaries O fGi es thus described South the river pp , which parteth Ok est ed butt eth the Manor of from Crowhurst , all along the said Manor of Okested from Tan rige Meadow t o ” 1 Cater for d Bridge . Gib is given by Halliwell as a young i s gosling , but it seems to be merely a local word ; it more probable that it must be classed with the large ’ number of possessor s names , and points to the surname of an owner of land in that part of the parish . TH E W RIDGE AY , in the grounds of Barrow Green , occurs l R u e 85 E d . w e in the Computus Rol of w. III as g y ; 1568 R o d ewa s of in a Court Roll of , g y ; in a Rental

- I . . James , Ridgeway It is either the ridge way or path on the high ground , rig or rugge being old English R i e at e for a ridge , just as Reigate is from g g , the ridge ’ road , or else it is from rug , rough . E - R Y WOOD . A wood under the chalk hill mentioned in an account of the demesne lands of th e Manor of

1576. Oxted , in It appears that one of the districts in the parish went by the name O f the Rey, or the Rye .

12 R i . o . In a Deed in Latin , of II , Reginald de Cobham grants to Geoffrey S trem on d a cottage with a cro fte ’ of land at the Rey , abutting on the king s high strete , ' leading from the R eye t oward s the Bergh . In Court 14 15 E t Rolls of dw. IV . men ion is made of the O f highway called Rye , and a district called La Rye, which occurs again in a Rental of 19 Eliz . and in one of a li as I . 1576 . James , and in it is called Rye Boro Rye ,

R . aye Croft, is the name of a ﬁeld near Oxted Church O f t d This district included the village Ox e , and appears to have lain round Oxted Church and Barrow Green , f in the valley , and therefore it is di ﬁcult to explain the

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d H a d h meaning of th e wor . it been the ill district , it to might have been referred Rei or Rige , a ridge ; as in l a n d R c s tc d e i n Ta t sﬁe d . R eigate , in y and Ry lands , ’ x s G V th e a ltom RO E , n me of a wood , partly in Oxted i n d a nd p a rtly Tandri ge , occurs in a Court Roll of O I t o V. 0 E d w. It might seem at ﬁrst sight be called ’ “ t h e d o o a fter bir , K bl s sweet messenger of calm

d ecay ; but the robin being found everywhere , it is hardly likely th at any wood would be specially dedicated P to him . Robbyn is given in the Promptorium arvu lorum as the old English for a robber ; and it may well

be that in the thicket of this grove in days of yore , some notorious highwayman lay concealed ready to exercise his calling upon unwary passengers along the ’ ’ Pilgrims Way , which ran hard by . l Robin s Ham , wTilbur s tow belo Hill , in the parish of Godstone , may

possibly be referred to the same cause . I mentioned a

ﬁeld in Tandridge called Rawbones , a name given , I

a . imagine , like St rveacre , to mark the poverty of the soil The transition from Rawbones to Robins is a very easy

one .

SPITAL FIELDS . In the Survey of 1576 the Outer an d S ittleﬁeld s Inner p are mentioned , and between “ ” t wo T urr tt f the a e O Okes called Spittle Hill . A

Spittle or hospital was originally applied , says Halli 2 - u f well , to a lazar ho se or receptacle for persons af licted w ith leprosy , but afterwards to a hospital of any kind . The existence of leprosy in England is called to mind by the lychnoscopes or lepers ’ windows in our h churches , of whic an example may be seen in the Lim sﬁeld chancel of p church , and by such a name as a v illa e i lﬁ ld . S t a e s Burton Lazars , g in Leicestershire p ,

n London , took its name from the Priory and Hospital of

. a St M ry Spital , founded in the reign of Richard I . and these ﬁelds were doubtless named from some hospital

- or pest house formerly standing there . The Computus

1 R i ’ n G e i s till th e h me an th e n t i u la b bbe . ’ o s rov s o of o r o or o s c ss of ro r It i s a m e e tai n ﬁ n d f or c r for a ox th an perh aps a ny cov er i n th e un r co t y . b u t t m o ’ o n g/ A70]l ( u C a n d I r ovm c z a l W d 7 5 f . 8 or s, p . R SU REY ETYMOLOGIES . 11

E 86 dw. . S itelh ulle Roll of III mentions a ﬁeld called p ,

- the Spital Hill . ’

LINOOLN S . LAND This name , which occurs in an 6 ci r . 157 account of the demesne lands of Oxted , as Lin coln eslan d Li n c oln es the Outer and Inner field of , Li n ln l n co s a d . land Croft, and Grove , still exists It is the name of an Owner , who appears to have possessed land n d Li l both in Titsey a mpsfie d . We meet in the former ’ with Lincoln s Mead , in the latter with Lincolns . In the Parish Register of Limpsfield I find the name of 1561 Lincoln in , and William Lincoln in a Court Roll of 5 2 1 8 .

- CHALK P IT WOOD . In the same document the Great

- and Little Chalk pit Wood are mentioned . They are SO

- called from being Situated below the chalk pit , which , from its great Size , must have been worked from very early times . 1 A 9 . B R D OXE BLOOK . In the Survey of Eliz it is said , ” b oun deth Bardox e North the Manor of Oxted on Block , 1 in a note to which , Manning says , that it was a stone placed to assist a traveller in mounting his horse , after having quitted it to ascend or descend the very steep Th . e hill here . It was remaining not many years ago stone mentioned in the Survey was at the top of th e h Bar d ox e hill . W ence it acquired the name of Block Lim sﬁ eld I cannot say . In an Extent of p Manor ,

8 . l a . . Hen , VI , land ca led B rdoux is mentioned

TH E S tockh urst . TYE . This was a tract of land near

In a Deed of 86 E dw. III . it occurs as the Tegh ; in

2 . . l 15 E . Court Ro ls of dw IV . and Hen V as Le Tye I 19 . . in Deeds O f 6 Hen . VIII . and Eliz as Tye noticed the frequent occurrence of this word under 2 d Bletchingley . In three of the dee s cited above, it i s mentioned in conjunction with the Ridons , or Ryden ,

h l . and C art , two other tracts of and in the same vicinity 3 an These names have also been explained before . In

Li m s ﬁ eld 5 E dw. . s Extent of p Manor , II , are many name

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’ ‘ Ch alvete h H orsete h f tc h c . . , , with th e sufix g ; g , g g

La Th egh . ’ ’ ' '‘ A R RO r s IIE I H E and A D D OT S D E ANE recall the fact that i the Abbots of B attle were , unt l the dissolution of the Broadh am mon a steri es , lords of the manor of and owners of the Hall Farm .

-D E 3 5 E dw. . ME S E n i J (Computus , III ) is probably the ’ ﬁn d ari o us - . v A . S . mossy mea dow, from meos , moss We pl ac es i n the An glo - Saxon Charters with this preﬁx ; 1 s den Mcos b roc Meesb rook ; Meo , ; e. . , g , , Berkshire Kent

4 E dw. . In 1 , Meos d un , S ussex . a Court Roll of IV a

l Meseh eld i . e. ﬁ eld in Oxted is mentioned , ca led , the ’ mossy slope , the word held being explained by 2 Stratman to mean a Slope or declivity . And in an

im sfield 8 . . Extent of L p Manor , Hen VI , is a field called a c den i n Tat sfield 1402 M s , and a Rental of , of , is a

ﬁeld called Mosecroft . l A LE S E LL A ILSW E LL c . Y W , (Survey , The name ” 3 “ E i il - of g the hero archer, says Taylor , is probably to lesb ri be sought at Aylesbury , formerly n y g , as well

A sworth A lston e. perhaps as at Aylesford , y , and y laces we th eAn lo - Besides these p , find in g Saxon Charters , leston a ZE eleswurth A n in Worcestershire , and g ( yles 4 E i iles worth) , Northamptonshire . This , then , would be g E i il well , the well dedicated to g . A R D YNG n 14 19 GROUNDS , mentio ed in Court Rolls of E dw 1576 . IV . , and occurring in the Survey of as Addin ren g , seems rather to bear out the supposition expressed in a former paper 5 on the name of Arding Li n field t h e a Run , in g , of settlement of the cl n of the A rdin s i n th e g neighbourhood . A LD BE R YE S . 1 A Court Roll of Hen . VIII . Speaks of Aldber es . three crofts called y This name , which we m w eet ith in Albury , a parish near Guildford , and again a t Merstham , as that of a manor there, is one of the m w ’ ld any words in hich the prefix cald (O ) is found .

1 emble d i loma t - e . a t. An S a m 11 114 1 77 8. K , Co x D p C r a , , , 1 c twn a r o Old E n l h 3 i s i n v e . W d a n d P la e 328. y f g , rbo or s c s, p . 4 em le o i r - de lom . Ca/rt. An S am a t 54 an . 9 d 42 3 K b , C x D p a , C r . 5 S u e A / ro l . ll v ol . v i . a t i . 98 rr y Co , p r p . . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 18

There is not , so far as I know, any earthwork or borough t here , and it is probable tha the termination is merely u sed in its primary sense of a n inclosure or space walled in . ’

1 . ANDREWE S CROFT (Court Roll , Hen VIII . ; Andres , 1576 ’ Survey , ; now Andrew s Wood) , recalls the name of a former owner or occupier . Richard and William 14 Andrews appear on a Subsidy Roll of Oxted ,

Henry VIII . ll 1 2 h BARR E SW E LL P . (Court Ro , Mary) . In a 1 402 Babh u r st . Rental of Titsey, , is a ﬁeld called 1 There ar e three places in the Saxon Charters which are Babb anb eorh fmlin akin to the word , viz . , , Babban g , and

Babban med , but Mr . Kemble has not been able to identify them , and there is a place in Nottinghamshire called Babr ooth . It is probably the name of some

- Anglo Saxon own er .

BAR KSTE D E 6 . (Court Roll , Hen This is a very ﬁ Barkb common pre x , and occurs in and Barkestone

(Leicestershire) , Barkham (Berks) , Barking (Essex and ff w Su olk) , Barkstone and Bark ith (Lincoln) , and other rr - places ; and Berkshire is the b ea o c or baroc seyr . Halliwell 2 gives ‘ barken ’ as a south country word for the yard of a house or farmyard . Barking Bottom is the name of a ﬁeld in Warlingham . B er lon d s Isl BOU R E LOND 2 . ow s (Court Roll , Hen ( ,

E d . 20 w IV ) . In Crowhurst there is a small farm Bo werlan d an d called , the lane leading to it is known B rl n as owe a d Lane .

Bowsh otes 14 E dw. BOWSHOT ( Brook , Court Roll , the name also of a wood in Crowhurst . This has 3 ‘ ’ reference to the practice of archery , the ﬁnal shot being explained to mean a Cockshot is the name of a hill between Reigate and Redhill . ’

BR OMH U LL 88 E dw. (Court Roll , from brom , ’ - i A . S . . n , broom , and hull , a hill This , which occurs

1 - r t 623 2 62 389. An S a m a . de i l m a/r t. a t. C Co x D p o a , C r , , 2 D i P vi n i a l W d in v e . et. o A h a i a nd f rc c ro c or s, rbo 3 0 141. S u l v i . A o . 1 8 e r / l v . c t . l rr y Co , pp , 1‘ l . 8 d . 1 , p . 14 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

a er c B romley and numerous other places , is y y ommon f preﬁx . I shall have occasion to notice it more ully n here after under Broomla d s Farm , in the parish of

f Ti ts c . ’i

VE cR OET 12 . . C uAL N (Court Roll , Rich II ) is the Ceal ’ - - - ealf . t . . c fen croft or Calves crof , Ang Sax , a calf l a i n th e n - Céalfdun , Ch ldon , A glo Saxon Charter and h lfh ill Ch ealfaleah Cealfeswull C c a , , and , are other 2 - instances occurring in the Anglo Saxon Charters . The number of names that take their origin from 3 Cowslan d animals or birds is very large indeed . is

still the name O f some land in Oxted . It appears in a Cousli slan d s Court Roll of 14 E d w. IV . as , and in one of

l lan d . 1 . s e 9 E dw. IV as Cow It is a contraction doubtless o cr oft of Cowlees land . C w is the name of a ﬁeld in

2 0 . . Farley, and in a Court Roll of Hen VII I ﬁnd Cowlese Ch ev er ells a ﬁeld in Titsey called , and on

Farm , in the same parish , are three fields called the alfl Lim sfield C ea se. In an Extent of p Manor of

5 E Ch alv ete h Ch alﬁte h . dw. II . is land called g or g H r Another name of the same kind in Oxted is a ewa y . In d a Court Roll of 2 0 E w. IV . occurs Regia via apud 4’

H ar a . montem vocat . ewye Leo remarks of words of “ this class , that the ﬁrst component of the names of

places has reference to matter of history , to an event , or

to a local feature ; the historical occurrences , however ,

are Often only such as befell the ﬁrst settlers . A hare bounded across their path — they noticed a tree on the

Spot , or some peculiarity of ground , and the word which b ” thence arose ore such a signiﬁcation . Br odh am CHAPELL LANDS , at (Court Roll , This name possibly points to a chapel at one time standing b there , or not improba ly the rents of these lands were devoted to the sustentation of a chapel in the parish n th e church u der will of some owner . COLE ACR E 1576 86 (Survey , , and Rental , written

1 de i l ma t t . a 532 . Co x D p o , C r 2 I rl. a t . 331 436 12 2 0 . , C r , , 3 S ee L — e n t. to Li t 3 0 2 . ow r, Co , pp . 4 An l - S a n N a me . 1 g o xo s, p .

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f b damp , so t ; and , in the a sence of any better explana ff tion , I o er it , although I am not aware that the word is used in this ar t of the country in that sense . f D E W E LAND S Survey , It is di ﬁcult to say why some l and should be supposed to be more subject to the inﬂuence of dew than other ; but I can on ly derive this ’ - A - A . S . . from the word dew, deaw In the nglo Saxon ‘ D eawesbroc Charters we meet with a place called ,

wsbrook . D c , Worcestershire i 1 2 Ph . ( t D O D W ATE R MEAD (Court Roll , a Gi n cock s meadow near the brook by , I take to be ’ ‘ i dead water mead , a name which still ex sts on the

E D E NE 19 . FAR N (Rental , Eliz ) is an instance of the ’ ‘ u occurrence of the preﬁx fearn , fern , all ded to in a 2 former paper . f R ANKMANNIS . . F (Rental , Jac I ) is the land of the rank or the freeman . ’

GOD WYN S 4 . ERSH (Deed , Hen The first part is th e name of a possessor , whom we meet with again in Go dwn eslan d Lim sfield 5 y , in an Extent of p Manor , ’ lli 3 E dw. . II Ersh , given by Ha well as the Kentish word for a stubble , is commonly used in that sense ’ throughout the district, and pronounced ash . 19 HANLE WOOD (Rental , Derived from the ‘ ’ ‘ ’ - h ah h an e e e . Anglo Saxon hean , poor , or , , high There is a wood of the same name in Chelsham ; H en lee 1402 H oselan d occurs in a Rental of Titsey , ; and Lim sfield H on eslan d all Wood in p , anciently written , of th e which I refer to same source . Henley Hill is the n i ame of a h ll in Sussex , between Midhurst and Hasle

- mere . There are as many as twenty nine places in the An glo - Saxon Charters commencing with the preﬁx ’ a a he n , and the s me occurs in Handley , Dorsetshire ; - on - Henley, Hants ; Henley Thames ; Henley, Somerset h shire and Wiltshire ; Hanley , Worcestershire ; to whic uff may be added Henley Wood , Yorkshire ; Henley , S olk,

1 emble de i - l ma t. a t. A . S . 5 a t . 0. K , Co x D p o C r , C r 7 2 S u e A h . oll l v o i . . v t a i . rr y rc C , p r p . 82 . 3 A h . D iet i n v e b rc , r o . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 17

' -in - and Henley Arden , Warwickshire . On this sufﬁx 1 o fba d Taylor says Names omen are rare . From the ‘ ’ - w Anglo Saxon hean , poor , we have Henlo , Hendon , ” and Henley .

19 . HOLLINDEN (Rental , Eliz ) and in a Survey of the m “ Manor of the sa e year , this is given as one of the m boundaries of the anor on the north . It is the holan ’ O f d es cr i dene , or valley the hollow , a name singularly p tive of the shape of the ground immediately under t h e 2 - - chalk range . In the Anglo Saxon Charters is a place - H oddin ton called Holan dene , near g , in Hampshire , and n O ckwell another place of the same ame near , in Berk e - six shir . There are thirty places given in the charters ’ ’ commencing with the preﬁx hol , or holan .

H OAR E ME D 19 . (Survey , Eliz ) may be compared with 3 H orelon d , alluded to under Tandridge as being from ‘ ’ h H ok elon d s H okem ed hor , oru , dirty ; and and (Survey, 1568) supply two more instances of the prevalence of ’ the preﬁx hoc . or H OR STONE 1576 CROFT (Survey , ) may be taken to be the place where a boundary - stone was set up between an 6 “ l - estate or a parish . Halliwe l says that Hoar stones are stones of memorial ; stones marking divisions be tween estates and parishes . They are still found in an d n several parts of England , are freque tly mentioned ” 6 ’ in old cartularies . Hoare s Oak is a place on the f n d borders O Somersetshire a Devonshire . E t 14 dw. . e HOMEWOOD (Court Roll , IV , This h im word speaks for itself ; it is the word of the , or hame , the home of the early settlers . In the Survey of n the ma or and various rentals , it is always spoken of ’ as the Boro of Homewood . It seems to have been in ’ an d the southern part of the parish , Rye Boro in the northern .

1 P s W d d la e . 4 0 an 7 . or s c , p 2 83 1171. em le de i l ma t a t . 7 K b , Co x D p o , C r , “ ” 3 l v i 106 ll v o . . . . S u e E t m l i e S u e A h . rr y y o og s , rr y rc Co , p 4 I a. . 88. , p 5 D a l d i n e i t o A h i P i W . e . a a n al vi n f rc c ro c or s, v rbo 6 ‘ F or a lon g a n d ex h a usti ve pa per o n th e s ubj ect of th es e H oar ’ — 2 4 60. l l x x v . . t n e see A r ch wo o i a v o . s o s, g , pp C '‘ 18 S E I YMOLOGIE S . G74 URREY

H odersbr ook 15 E dw. U O D BR S LANE (Court Roll , I d 4 . (View of Frank Ple ge , Hen VII ) , Hoders and s t H uder e (Survey , This , which has now been cor h d t W , r upt e in o oodhurst , and is a residence in the paris ’ may be a possessor s name , but I am inclined to derive ' ’ luul h d n - it from lud , , or y , the A glo Saxon measure of a

a n d bur s t . hide , , a wood The actual quantity of a hide l Kemble h a s been very variously estimated , and has devoted a ch a pter of his work to the discussion of the If subject . we may consider , with him , that it was 33 a i t i a bout cres , is easy to imag ne that there might

h a ve been formerly a wood of this Size here . There is , t d a t o this y, one near the brook be ween Oxted and Lim sﬁeld w p (to hich , I suppose , the name of Hoders k a l broo to be pplied) , and some land , that was evident y wO f formerly woodland , has been grubbed . The Vie “ Frank Pledge speaks of Regia via vocata Hoders

brooke . This , I presume , to be the road leading from h H idh ir st the conﬁnes of the parish towards Bro ad am .

is the name of a place in Sussex , near Bognor , given in

- the Anglo Saxon Charters , and several others occur

with the same preﬁx . It is close to the district called

formerly the Herst , and now retained in Hurst Green . H OGTR OU GH Th e ' lan e l LANE (Survey , eading up the hill at the back of Barrow - Green House ; it con i n t ued t o deserve the name until about two years ago . The miserable state O f the roads and lanes formed a constant source of complaint at the Courts Leet in the

Middle Ages , and to bequeath sums of money by will for the reparation of th e highways was considered a meri t ori ou s act . Their condition formed the Subject of many

- j esting names , such as this . Feather bed Lane and Honey - pot Lane are the names of two lanes in Limps ﬁ ld H e . o t rou h g g Field is a ﬁeld in Caterham . I LY 5 E ll d dw. I ewoo WOOD (Court Roll , y Gate 3 16 - (Court Roll , In the Anglo Saxon Charter a lac e Illanleah Illaleh p IS given , called or , said by Kemble

1 S a x n i n E n la n d v l h v o . i . a . i . o s g , c p em le dex i l a om t a t . 432 . K b , Co D p , C r 1 7 5 . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 19 to be in Kent ; but it is described as in the kingdom of an d the East Anglians , occurs with Barking and Hadley , x and is manifestly in Esse . I can suggest no satis factory derivation . In Woldingham are two fields , called an Isle Hole d Isle Bank . d 85 E w. . LEMED (Computus , III ) is explained by a deed of the following year, in which it appears as Lee n - a meade ; A glo Saxon le h , our word lea , still common It u in poetry . is very usual as a s ffix , and appears as a prefix in Leighton . 5 L OVE KY NE LOND 8 E dw. (Computus , This is one O f of the names good omen , indicating , probably , a piece of good land on which cattle throve . In an Extent of im fi l L s e d 8 . . p , Hen VI , is a field , which is called Good lukkes . The number of names of bad import have been 1 pointed out in a former paper .

MALY NS LOND S 14 E dw. . (Court Roll , IV and Mallin st on es g , in the tithing of Homewood (Court Roll , M lli n r o ft E . M lin st n 16 dw. a s c 1 . . a o Hen VI ) g ( IV ) g , ’ Malli n a a . s on Ledger s F rm , Chelsham The g is a name 2 given by Kemble as one of the marks or tribal names .

We ﬁnd it in Malling in Kent , and it is possible that this name is from the same source . T H E Tat sﬁ eld MARLE S (Survey , In there was 40 formerly a wood , called the Marle Wood , acres , 1402 written Mor eleswo de in the Rental of . This marks the constant practice in former times of marling land, or

° dressing it with clay dug ﬁ om pits . The name is of frequent occurrence , and the numerous large pits , now ponds , are evidence of the same thing . The word is used by Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales .

H e walked i n th e feldes for t o pri e U n th e S terres wh at th e h a ld befalle po , r s ’ Ti l h e was i n a marlepit yfalle.

u Of the antiq ity of the custom , we have evidence from a ’ 1‘ e O f passage in Lamb ar d s Perambulation Kent , in which

4. i . 8 i t . l v . a ll v o . S u e A h . rr y rc Co , p r p 469 A . . i . A . S a x n i n E n la n d v ol . o s g , pp , p 3 1‘ 445 . E i ti n 1596 . a n te bu r Ta le 3460. , C r y s , d o p 3 '‘ 1“ SUR R E Y E IYMO LOGIE S .

ra f rd a C o e he s ays , Spe king of the old chalk caves at y l n In t h e O pinion of the inhabitants , these were former towar d es d im r c d a s times b well for the use of the chalk b uildi ng ds fo r to marle or amend their arable lands ” a ewd e therewi th . M rles is the name of some land at N 1576 a t t i n , ; g e , men ioned an Inquisition post mortem ’ - a , J a cob s M rle , that of a ﬁeld on Marsh Green Farm

Edenbridge .

‘ E 19 . Mor l E C RO FT (Rental , Eliz ) is probably another ‘ ’ m - instance of the word ote , or meeting place , alluded 1 r Mo telan ds . to unde , in Tandridge

R ETE 9 . . 2 . . ME LST (Court Roll , Hen V and Hen VI ) is probably th e road by the mill ; so ki ln is locally pro 111 n o un c ed kell , and pit , pet . We ﬁnd the preﬁx mel

. Melton , Melbury , and other places Melbury Pool is a pl a ce in Chelsham . ’ R ANT S 5 E dw. MO GATE (Deed , This is apparently a derived from the name of possessor , the gate being pro bably a gate across the road near his land ; so we have

Kent Gate on the conﬁnes of Surrey and Kent , at Wick h m a . These gates across high roads are still common in a O f m ny parts of the Weald Sussex and Kent, and were f formerly universal . There was a knightly family O O f Morant seated in Kent , one whom , Sir Thomas ’ Moran t s tem Morant , was of Court , in Chevening , p .

E d . w. d III Madams Court , and Ma ams Court Hill , on the road from Sevenoaks to London , is a corruption of ’ M ran an o t s Court . In Extent of the manor O f Limps

8 . . t ﬁeld of Hen VI , two crofts of land are men ioned , ‘ ’ al Moraun tescr oftes c led , and among the farm tenants is John Mor aun t ; an d his n ame appears as a tenant in a n Broadh am Extent of the manor of , in Oxted , of the same year .

N E TH E R LOND S - (Rental , from the Anglo Saxon 6 NeoDera Ny era , , the nether or lower lands . This preﬁx ’ Neoti ereh a ma Neth erh am Neo der tun occurs in , , and e , V N S er an d an d Netherton (Worcestershire) , y Stanfor , 2 N iSera n tun n o t d d n y , i entiﬁe , mentio ed in the charters . 1 S u e E t m l i e S u A ll e r . v l. v 1 ch . Co o i . . 05 rr y y o og s, rr y , p . 2 em le o ex i l ma t a t . 764 139 1301 1296 K b , C d D p o , C r , , , . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 2 1

- The Netherlands are the low lying lands , and in this u Neth er ﬁ eld country the preﬁx occ rs in , near Battle ; in

Netheravon and Netherhampton , Wilts ; in Netherby N eth erwi ck and , Cumberland , and various other places . NOTTINGH AME S NE TTINGH AME S a l . 1568 , (Rental , , and 19 ’ Survey, This is a possessor s name ; Thomas Nett n h ani 14 y g appears on a Subsidy Roll of Oxted ,

Hen . VIII .

P OPE SLANE a l. P OPE SLAND , LANE a name still existing , 7 2 1 occurs as early as in Court Rolls of and Hen . VII . , P O eslan d P i m ede and p and Op s in a Rental of 19 Eliz . It ’ is a possessor s name . ’ C n O f i n co ck s POWDER DI KS , the ame a small wood on G ’ Farm . I don t find it in any of the early deeds . Halli 1 “ - well gives Pow dike , a dike made in the fens for carrying off the waters ; and as thi s is in the lower part of the farm , near some flowing meadows , it seems a m not improb ble that this is the origin of the na e . O E O 14 E i P W K BR O KE r dw. . n (Cou t Roll , IV ) is an ‘ ’ o f stance the prefix pouk , alluded to in a former ? paper un der Horne and Crowhurst In a note to the 3 u E s Bl n we . e co Journal of Timothy B rrell , q, Mr says There are many farms and closes in Sussex wh i ch owe their names to having been the reputed haunts of fairies , f ” P o ok r d e P o okb ourn e P o okh ole P o okcr o t . such as y , , , P o okh ole Of O tteh am is a name a field in the Manor of , in Hailsham , and one of the local names in the Chronicle of Battle Abbey ? P ILLOR IE CROFT (Rental , This is described as being in Rye Borough ; and as that included the village of Oxted , it was probably close to it , and took its name uss ex from the pillory being set up there . In the S 5 A h l i on rc . Col ect is a sketch of a pillory , which still

1 D A P vi a l W d i n e . i et . o h ai a n d n i f rc c ro c or s, v rbo 2 02 l v 1 i . 8 1 . ll v o . . a t . 8 S u e A h . rr y rc Co , p r pp , 3 A v ol . 111 . 12 4 S u ex h ll . . ss rc . Co , p 4 I an i Ba ttle Abbe M . A . L e l v . 1 4 d h n le o d . v o . . 7 , p , C ro c s f y, ow r,

15 . 5 ll de i ti n i s i v en th e l i . 3 wh e a u . 61 u n t e V o x . et se e p , q , r f scr p o g of n t u ti n i t co s r c o of . G “ o n '‘ SURR E Y E IYMOLOGIE S .

u ex is t s in Rye Chu rch . Thro ghout the Middle Ages it w wa s in use (s ays Mr . Lower) in all corporate to ns for t h e punishment O f m en who broke the a ssize of bread d a n d - a n beer , committed such like small acts of injustice ” a ga inst th e common weal . These presentments were

ve ry common a t th e Courts Leet of manors , and pro b a bly th e punishment was employed in other pla ces

besides corporate towns . We ﬁnd it generally asso h n - c ia ted with t e cucki g stool , which was used in the

punishment of women . In a presentment on the Rolls

a 3 7 . of S e ford , Eliz , the jury present that the pillory ,

- an d cucking stool , the butts are in a state of decay , and

the same complaint is made in subsequent years . In a

4 . IV . Rent al of Oxted of Hen , the Manor is said to be n held of the Ki g , with a court from three weeks to three weeks O f , view frank pledge , free warren of the Old Park, outfan th ef i llori - an d infangthef, g , p cucking stool , soc sac , 1

& c . We find from Maitland , that in Cornhill was placed for f a pillory , the punishment of bakers of ending in the a n ssize of bread ; for millers steali g of corn at the mill , an d for scolds and other offenders and that in the year 1468 divers persons , being common jurors , such as at a O f ssizes were forsworn for rewards or favour parties , were judged to ride from Newgate to the pillory in Of Cornhill with mitres paper on their heads , there to a d an d st n , from thence again to Newgate . R E MROLD E S MOR E 1 E 8 dw. (Deed , I derive this ’ R umbald R l i . umb a d word from , a proper name ; e. s ‘ ’ ‘ ’ mor mér e or , a pool or pond . And this its situ a d tion would justify , for the eed describes it as lying Li m sfield by the river separating p and Oxted . In the Anglo - Saxon Charters a place is given in Buckingham 2 R umboldes - t shire , den , and in Worces ershire , Rum 3 ’ d - mo wol es r . R omb ald s Moor is the spot just fixed

upon for the site of a large military camp . The preﬁx

1 H i t . Lond n v o l i o i . . Q/ . 903 . In L n A o S e t 1873 i s a s , p o g g , of p , , ull a un t th e ill a n d th e n atu e t h e uni h men t wi th f cco of p ory , r of p s , e e a l e e en tati n i t m ea l man u i t s v r r pr s o s of fro r y scr p s . em le i lo ma t , a t . 449 I n dex b ut th e e en e K b D p , C r (so , r fer c i s wr n 3 ) . d o g a t. 308 I , C r .

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- E S mR LE S E 85 E dw. . S c R i z L YS , , and SHIRLEYS ( III and ‘ ’ - A . S . S ceran . This I derive from the , to cut Co m a re n ea r p Shirley , Croydon , possibly from the same

S li c rlo w i n h . root ; a n d Long , a field Warling am In a th e m jority of cases , where this prefix occurs , it is ’ ‘ ’ r . S ci reb urn e sci e , seyr , a county , Sherburn , the - - u county brook ; Scire mere , the Shire mark , or co nty bound ary . ’ a T E S ILR S uan u n l . H S , HAME (Survey , A field

- of seventeen acres , adjoining Chalk pit Wood , and a name still in use . I am not able to give any satisfactory a explan tion of it , but mention it, because , in the Anglo S axon Charters we ﬁnd a place in Hants of the same 1 l - Sio uc . name , ham If Latin roots were admissible, ’ silex , a ﬂint , would be a plausible derivation .

S R E TE E AOOE E 5 E dw. (Court Roll , Presentment t Sketeh acch e hat a bridge at , in the tithing of Stone

. . : S coett hurst , was broken Der Sceatt , , a division or corner ; and this , being by the brook , was probably 2 a . r e a p rish boundary On the word hatch , Taylor i t - f marks , that is a hitch gate and a common su ﬁx in

e. . the neighbourhood of ancient forests ; g , Colney W esth at h c . hatch , If the derivation suggested of the f preﬁx be correct, we meet with it in the name O a place 3 - A . S . in Hants , called in the Charters S ceatteléah . S oa Ms 1 8 . . (Court Roll , Ric II ) is to be compared vith a ﬁeld of the same name, mentioned under Crow “ Er u s t . S OME R BER YE S 15 E d w. . (Court Roll , Der Sumer , Bear o summer ; , pasture for swine, the place of

- summer pasture for hogs . In the A . S . Charters we 5 D enbaer o meet ﬁve times with , the pasture in the dene 6 d W ealdbaero u or woo ed valley , and , the past re in the wood . This pann age for swine was of great value in

1 em le de i l ma t 3 a t . 6 . K b , Co x D p o , C r 7 2 W d a n d P l a e . 48 4. or s c s, p 3 em le d D e i . a t 342 K b , Co x p , C r . . ‘ 1 S u e A h ll . . v ol . v i . t . a i . 1 rr y rc Co , p r p 04. i emb l dex i l m , D a t a t . 114 160 1 9 198 2 7 39. Co p o , C r , , , , j / l g SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 2 5

those days . The Domesday Survey states that the woods in Oxted yielded yearly . 100 fat hogs ; those of Limps

ﬁ eld 150. The preﬁx Somer , or Sumer , occurs fr e

e. . & c . quently ; g , Somerset , S omerton , Somerleyton , ,

Somerset Lane and Somerset Farm , near Peper Harow , S om m er sb ur and y Wood in Ewhurst , in this county . S WI E R S 19 Swi er s (Rental , One meese , called , and three parcels of land thereto belonging , containing ” - nine acres . It is derived , I think , from the Anglo Saxon 1 s werra s wor a , or , a neck , as suggested under Tandridge . The word Swire ’ is given by Halliwell & as meaning

t o - . w A . the neck There are places in the S . Char O f — S uei r e S uiran ters like name (Swyre , Dorset) and

(Swyre , Hants) . In a Rental of the Manor of Titsey, ’ 1402 S wi refeld e , is a ﬁeld called , and in an E xtent of ‘ i m ﬁ l 5 dw. the Manor of L p s e d ( E II . ) one called La ’ r S wer eslon d S we e. (Court Roll of Titsey , In a l Capel parish , on the borders of Leigh , is farm ca led ’ Swire s Farm .

i F P . 14 E d N H E L w. VY O S O V sus . ( , Compare 3 W in ch es ton Lane under Crowhurst , and in the Anglo W in ceburn e W i n ch b ourn Saxon Charters , , , and Win ll un i n h n n d c awe W i n cen d W c do . a , Dorset ; , , Oxon

W in cesbur u . g , Somerset The termination lo is applied m e to a p of ground . W AR D INS i c r . (Rental , There are two places in — - W ear ddun the Anglo Saxon Charters almost identical , d e m (War en , Kent) , and W rdu ’ ’ n - a It is probably from the A glo Saxon wer , or w er, an inclosure , the inclosure on the down or hill . The preﬁx ’ a wer or w er , enters into numbers of places , and was “ noticed under Warwick Wood i n Bletch ingley .

ASHBY FIELD , on Whitehouse Farm , is either the

- ﬁeld by the . ash tree , or is so called from an owner or occupier of that name .

T E YNTFIE LD l 14 E dw. (Court Ro l , A ﬁeld of the

1 t i . . 10 . i . a 7 h l v ol . v l. S u e A . rr y rc Co , p r p 2 D i et o A h a i a n d P vi n i a l W d in v e b . . f rc c ro c or s, r o 3 1 3 0 . r v i a t i . h l v l . . l. o . S u e A r . r y c Co , p r p 4 l e t . 80 , p . '‘ SURR E Y E l YMOLOGIE S .

s a me na me in Croydon was noticed by Mr . Flower , l but no d eri vation suggested . Taint is given by Halliwell

a s a la rge protubera nce a t the top of a pollard tree . The prac tic e of pollarding trees was very common in the i l M dd e Ages . We find pollards constantly mentioned as li o umla r - n y marks , or giving ames to fields or woods ; ’ Te n t sfi eld k . e. . ar O a a g , Poll d , Poll rd s Wood y is the n a me of a pl ace near Bristol . M Broadh am n d GRESHA MEAD , a field near Gree , recor s the possession by the Gresham family of the Manor of

Broa dh a m and the Hall Farm . The Manor of Broad h a m remained i n the hands O f that family from 1539 1718 a n d until , they did not part with all their interest in the Hall Farm until the close of the last century . The following list is of names which are derived from former owners A LLE NLOND S 19 (Survey , Ellinor Allyne , one o f the tenants of the manor . D ABE RONS . h John Dabrun , witness to a c arter of r E 2 d . 7 w . elease of the Manor of Oxted , I D ANE ME D m te . (Survey , p Robert Dane , tenant . G ILD E NS . 4 Thomas Gilden , tenant (Deed , Hen . E HER WARDS , probably Haywards . The name of Hay w a i n 25 E d . w . ard ppears a Court Roll of III , and they a m were yeoman family of so e importance . H OMMAND S 19 H omman d (Survey , Richard , t enant . KNIGH E TE S 1 E d w. (Deed , V . ) Thomas Knight , ar . l ll l ’ l ’ ge . MAYNE SFIE LD 1 2 h P . . n ( Mary) Henry Mahe ,

. o Br oadh am 5 E dw. . tenant (Extent of Man r of , II ) 1 R i SALMANS CROFT ( o . The family of Saleman a m te . E d owned l nds at Caterham , p w. III . S CIIE NLE SLA ND . S ch en ch e m Martin , or Schenke , arried th e Clarice , second daughter and heir of Roland de A cs ted c tem E . dw. , p II . S uOT'rs ( , h S th e Rental Ric ard hot , one of a 14 E d w. ten nts at a court held IV .

1 S u re A c h l . Co l v ol. iii . . 25 r y r , p 1. SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 2 7

M S TR A ONS Jae. (Court Roll , Grant from Reginald ff Str em on d de Cobham to Geo rey of one cottage , with d 2 a croft of land at the Rey in Oxted , ate May ,

R i o . II . S Y YE R STR E TE 9 E . (Court Roll , Hen The names of John and William Sevier appear on a Court Roll of 2 E w . 140 8 d . l IV In a Rental of Titsey , , is a ﬁeld cal ed

S ev er es cr o ft .

S OR IYE NS E ustach S criv e n (Rental , y appears m Lim sﬁ eld as a tenant of the adjoining anor of p , in the

. Skr n 8 . v e Extent of Hen VI , and Nicholas y y , in a 1

140 . 2 . Rental of Titsey , Mr Flower mentions a ﬁeld n called Skr ev e s in Croydon .

The following are probably from possessors , though n o t their names do appear on the Court Rolls , or else where

AR MO UR SLAND tem . (Rental renewed , p l a . C BARNARDS , BE KETTS BARNARDS l a . B UGLE S , BIGLES (Survey , BU CKE R E LLS 1568 (Rental , ) d CLE ME NTSD E NE 85 E w. (Computus , ’ C ULLE BOLE SLOND (85 E dw. King s highway at Kilb l Kilb alls 87 E dw. o es (Court Roll , Brook

2 0 E K lb l s tem . dw. e o e ( (Rental , p D E KE S LAND

t . em . FENNERS (Rental , p Jac H AR BE R S

JOLYF E SME D u 85 E dw. (Comput s ,

LAOYE S MEAD (86 E d w. S TR U D E R S 1 SPARKS HOUSE ( 9 E dw. W OR ME R SLAND (86

The following is a list of names of which I can give n o satisfactory derivation

C a l . BI KE , BITTE MEAD (Survey ,

CH ANOE Y u 15 E dw. CROFT (Co rt Roll , CORDTS

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' l c o ns E R ru (Deed ,

14 E dw. G LYwO O nS (Court Roll ,

15 E dw. GREN E R YSER. (Court Roll ,

- l l YR E D E s (3 6 E d w.

l Ni i on E s (17 Hen .

J Ac NE LYNc E EE LD s (15 E dw.

Ja e. tem . MAUR E R E LL CROFT (Rental , p ' NATCIl E S 1568 rY E s a l. NA , ( and

. P EA R E MEAD . Name still in use PAI’ SOME S

P E TE PE ND (36 E d w. S OALLE D FIE LD S cALLmR YD E N (15 E dw. Compare

1717 , (Court Roll , Warlingham , and Scald Hill m the name of a ﬁeld i n C aterha . T H E S OU TE LL (19 TH E INCH AME S T nma ME s, a li a s T R YNNANS

1VE cuE LE W E OH E tem . . , or (Rental , p Jac

W OR BLAND S (18 R i o . IL) .

19 E dw. W YSD OMFl E LD (87 E dw. III . and

L I M P S F I E L D .

Limen esfeld LIMPSFIELD . Domesday Survey , ; E x

L m n f ld tem . . o f 5 E dw. . e es e tent the Manor , II , y ; p Eliz , i l L m esfeld 1685 L m sfield L m sfie d . y ; , y p and p We must d ismiss the plausible derivation which would assign to it ‘ ’ i . e. a Latin origin ; ager in limine , the field on the borders of S urrey (the parish marching on the county of Kent throughout its eastern boundary) it is inconsistent w 1 ith the opinion before expressed , and exceedingly unlikely that i n a district where everything is purely im Saxon , one place alone , and that one not of great portance , should have a Latin name . A Latin prefix a ffi with a S xon su x is , I think , fatal to the notion , even if other arguments were wanting ? To give the

1 S u A h ll e . l i v o . v . a t i 2 9 . rr y rc Co , p r . p . ( h es ter , h eld wh 1c h mi h t a t fi t S i h t eem to be m un ded , g rs g s so co po , M SURREY ETY OLOGIES . 29

ri right de vation is not so easy . J . P . Harrison , E sq . , in a paper on a Vicinal Road in the parish of 1 Ewhurst , mentions that along the line of it occur ’ — L emin e these names g Lane , Lemon s Barn , and m Le mon Bridge ; and he cites the opinion of Mr . ” “ Hodgson , in his History of Northumberland , that ‘ leam and leming are words very common ly applied ” a to ancient roads or pl ces Situated near them . He ” 2 says further, that Manning , in his History of Surrey , agrees with Dr . Gale and Mr . Denne in thinking it pro bable that the public way or leman ’ which terminated at Stangate , on the Thames , gave its name to Lambeth . Li m sfield L em an esfeld On this supposition , p , or , as it is sometimes written , might have taken its name from the i 3 fact that the l ne of ancient road , called in the Middle ’ Ages the Pilgrim s Way , traversed it from east to west . m In the adjoining parish of Titsey , i mediately on the con of Lim s field L em an eslon d fines p , is some land called

(Rental of Titsey, The objections to this deriva 1st n tion are , , that the word Leming seems ordi arily to 2 n d occur in connection with Roman roads ; and , that ’ ' W a the Pilgrim s y did not pass through the village , but considerably to the north of it . Supposing it to be L em an esfeld , it is easy to see how the transcriber of Domesday would have given it the Latinized form of ? Limi n esfeld m Lympstone , near Exeter, and Ly psham ,

h m . near Bridgewater Bay , ave apparently the sa e preﬁx BR AMSE LLE (Domesday Survey Bram selle belon ged to this manor in the time of King E dward , as the men of the hundred This place cannot now be iden tiﬁ d m l ’ e . b r e e The derivation would be or bramel ,

i s n ot i n eali t th e Lati n w d a t um h ad m e t o be ad ted so r y, for or c s r co op ‘ ’ en all n a - r e a d ea ed i n th e A n l S ax n m ceaste . g r y, pp r g o o for of 1 S ur e A h ll . 5 6 r . . r y c Co , pp , 2 ] l d . v ii i a nd o . 46 n te , . p . , o . 3 ’ I d o n ot by t h i s remark i nt en d t o i mply th at th e P ilgr im s W ay i s a R man ad I th i n th at i t i s i n a ll a ili t an an i en t o ro . k prob b y c B i i e ol i v . . t h t A l v . ac a s I e e ema ed S u h . l r s r k , b for r rk ( rr y rc Co , p 4 L emm a n i s a S ax n w u e fo r a a lla n t mi t e an d u o ord, s d g or s r ss, occ rs “ i n Ch auc er a nd G ower ; so L em an es feld migh t be t h e lan d con ferred b m y so e S a x on on h i s mi stress . 3 0 SURREY ETYMOLOGI E S .

n - f r A . S . o bramble , which occurs as a prefix in so ma y Bra mblet e ; c . . names y , y , near E ast Grinstead Bramley — ’ \V lf a a , , , o , me dow in Titsey , and sele sel a dwelling elc s d un e S els don S elh ur s t which we meet wi th in S , and , l ’ l , C royd o n . Sele is the dwelling of the wea thy as ’ ? dis tinguished from cote , the cottage n W OO D . o t IIO O R , the principal residence in the place It is i t i s loc all called a n old name in its present form ; y the Hook , ’ i n an 5 E dw. a n d occurs as La Hoke Extent of the Manor , ’ Pa stura vocata la Hoke . The lane leading to it is a c lled , in an early Court Roll of the Manor of Titsey, N om an sh ok e H oks t rete. is a field at this point , men i n d 152 5 an d Cla h ouk t o e in a Court Roll of Titsey , , y Croft is a n a me of a field in that parish mentioned in a Rental of 1402 . Little and Great Hook are two fields at Tre

a s H ocﬁ eld H ocm eade Ni ch olh ook e. vereux , also , , and In an e arly Deed relating to Caterham mention is made ‘ ’ of eleven acres in the valley below Hoca , now per 3 d i - petuate n Hook arm . I have already pointed out the meaning of this name as implying the place at the ‘ ’ ld hoc or corner of the parish . The O name for the ’ residence was Beckett s or Hare Hill , as appears by the ’ Deeds . Beckett s is doubtless from a possessor , the name r 1561 H ar eh ull appearing in the Parish Registe in . , as it is there written , occurs in an Extent of the Manor ,

8 . . Hen VI , and is derived from the hare , and may com 4 H arewe pare with y , in Oxted . It is a dry , sandy bank , l singu arly suited to hares . NE W HALL recalls the existence of a large manor - house at that spot , the residence of the Gresham family, the only traces of which now remaining are some of the old wa : lls the foundations may be seen in a dry summer . h ere n o T is record of the date of its building . It was prob ably erected by the Greshams after they became th e 1539 possessed of manor in , and may have occupied t h e site of the capital messuage ’ of the Abbots of

1 S u e A — h . Coll v l i i o i . . 2 . 48 9. rr y rc , pp 2 Leo A n l -S a x n N a m e . 54. , g o o s , p 3 S u e A h . ll V l v o i . . 8 a t i . . 8 rr y rc Co , p r p . 1 ' ’ l i tle ” a l e , 11.

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5 T reverux 1788 Trev ereux . 174 , ; , It is commonly supposed th a t the name was derived from some Norman . b ut French possessor, of this there is no record ; and it will be see n that the present spelling of the word , which gives it a French appearance , is of recent origin , while a ll th e earlier documents give rock as the termination . Th e pre ﬁx I cannot explain ; the sufﬁx is explained by th e rocky nature of the soil in the upper part of the k . Tr r 2 . ev e a l and . In the Extent of Hen VI , Thomas is a tenant of the manor ; and i n a Court Roll of Tri v rock 81 Hen . VIII . Thomas y appears ; it may there ’ fore be a possessor s name but I think it more probable th a t the persons above mentioned took th eir name from th e place . It has been suggested to me that it is a per k n . Trevarri c so al name , originally of Cornish origin is the name of a village in that county .

ITCH INGW OOD COMMON . This is probably the same

5 E d . place which occurs in the Extent of w. II as h n d E t e ewoo . It is there described as a wood of sixty fi v e acres at Skymm anye (a district in that part of the i ts n parish) , and , as ame implies , it was formerly wood ground , though now entirely pasture . Its present a creage (fifty - six acres) tallies very well with its ancient d as escription , , no doubt , certain inclosures have taken place Since that time . In a Deed of 1767 it is called h u Haling Wood , and locally sometimes Eastwood . Alt o gh I do not find Itch in gwo od in th e earliest documents which

I possess , there can be no doubt that it is an ancient n I i n ame , and one of the tribal or clan names . The cc ga s 1 ar e given by Kemble among the marks inferred from local

a . Itch i n ﬁeld n mes From them we have g , near Horsham , x Susse , and Itchington , in Gloucestershire an d Warwick

, an d E tch in h ill shire possibly Etchingham , Kent , and g , n on Can ock Chase . ’ ’ E TU E NE W OOD A - . S . would be from the eten , etan , a ’ g , E th an dun iant the root probably of (Edington , th e A ? Wilts) , mentioned in S . Charters The names of fairies a n d monsters enter very largely into Anglo 1 S a x n i n E n la n d v o l . i . A . A 6 4 . . 8 o s g , pp , p 1’ em le dex D i l ma t , a t. 3 14 465 106 K b Co p o , C r , , 7. E '‘ M SURREY I Y O LOGIE S . 88

Saxon names . I have suggested the same derivation 1 E n t er d n e . P uckmir es P uekwells for , in Godstone The , ,

& c . D , belong to the same category ; and evules Mea dow Tat sﬁ eld 1561 a (Rental of , ) is pposite .

HALING WOOD would , in all probability , be another a H allin a s trib l name from the clan or family of the g , w n hom we meet with at Halli g , Kent , Park , . Haling H al n bur Croydon? and y g y , mentioned in a Deed of 5 1 2 7 . , as a place in Caterham ’ Stafh ur s t STAFFORD S WOOD , anciently written , and 5 . . t af E dw. S still so pronounced locally Extent , II , h r t d e 2 ﬁi r t d e s wo . . S t a s eswo e ; ditto , Hen VI , ; Deed

50 ff r t - 17 Sta o s . n , Wood It is from the A glo Saxon ’ ’ st aef f , a staf ; and hurst , a wood . The same preﬁx

ff S taef- occurs in Sta ord , originally ford Staveley , Derby 3 - - i . f . e. S t a and Staverton , ford tun , Devon a LIMPSFIELD LODGE , the name of farm , is one of the ﬁ many instances in which we n d Lodge . Loge is an

- Anglo Norman word for a dwelling , from the French ‘ ’ 1750 loger . In a Deed of it is called the Court

Lodge .

Li MF SFi E LD . PARK , the name of a farm It derives its name from the park attached to New Hall . It is

O f 1671. mentioned in a Deed Park Mead , on this farm , is from the same source .

d 2 . . R . 5 E dw. . an BALLA DS (Extent , II Hen VI , Bal l ar d eslan d . ) There is a wood of the same name in il m n . ﬁ n d W li a Addington parish As I , Ballard amo g ’ 5 E dw i t the tenants , . II . , I suppose is a possessor s name . In the Church of Merstham is , or was , a brass to the memory of John Ballard and Margaret his wife , date 1468. Ballard Down Foreland is on the Dorset d Shire coast . Cape Ballard is a cape of Newfoundlan , and Ballards Point a cape on the west coast of Ireland , co . Clare .

1 A 93 e ll v l vi i . . u h . t S o . . a . rr y rc Co , p r p 2 ’ v i 246. l ii . ll o . r F w m A h . S ee M . l e e a S u e o r s r rks , rr y rc Co , p 3 f A S ta fford i s a local word i n Glo uc estersh i re for a rough pi ece o w I n W i lli a mstri P a F ai r un d e ed i th th n an d u h e . g o cov r or s b s s p rk, r

d i s a i e e un d alled . for , p c of gro so c D '‘ SURR E Y E l YMU LOG l E S .

W ALTE R S l BOLTE R S ALL a l . a . , BO LTU U R ST , , is the Bold or ’ ’ w . Bolt , the d elling by the hurst or wood There is to this d ay a wood immediately at the back of the house ,

e i n t , a n d , b ing the wealden par of the parish it was doubtless a t on e time surrounded by wood .

a . GRANTS , a f rm of that name It occurs in the ’ b e a un tz . o s sessor s . G r a Extent o f 2 Hen . VI as It may p

s i n 2 . . a n ame , a we ﬁnd the Extent of Hen VI the n me of R oger Graunt ; but , from its proximity to the waste h in wod l and at Itc g o Common , it is not improbable that i t wa s origin ally a grant of a portion of the waste , and thence derived its name . ’ D oec E TTs D o h ur st , now corrupted into g , is a possessor s D o et n ame . John g occurs as one of the tenants in the

2 . . Extent of Hen VI , and the name is met with in the early rolls of Oxted . TOOKE ND E N - S , an ancient dwelling house , now a farm , and much reduced in Size . It gave the name to a family D e talk n d en S taw n d en of S y , or y , one of whom , Roger S talk n d en 1884 y , is mentioned in a Deed of relating to 1867 Ta ts fi eld i n Foyle , and in a Deed of relating to , which lie is called Roger de S tanyn gd en n . John de n h S te eg en d en e is mentioned in the Extent of 5 E dw. II . v S to cin as th e Kemble gi es g as one of tribal names , occurring in Stocking , Herts , Stockingford , co . War ki n h m S toc a . wick , and g , co Devon , from which , ‘ ’ - n . A . S . perhaps , it derives its ame Stoc is also for a stem , or log of a tree ; and in Crowhurst is a farm a c lled Stocklands . The place is very often written Stork an d enden ; , if this orthography be correct , it would be ’ stor c derived from , a stork . Its Situation in somewhat u low, marshy gro nd , with large woods adjoining , would suit very well with this derivation . In a Rental of “ 1402 le Bromfeld Titsey , , a field is mentioned , called ” n u er S taw n d n p y e . T E E m eat MOAT FARM , so called from the with which , until quite recently , it was surrounded . There is a farm Li n fiel of the same name in g d . Many of the old houses l n h l in the district were origina ly moated . Te c eys and

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. in a very large space of ground Chevington Farm , l Blet ch i n e wa s . Cro wh ur st Place a v er lar e g y, moated has y g ’ Bu moat ; and in a ﬁeld called tler s Garden , on the farm ’ n adjoini g Rooks Nest , are distinct traces of a moat ,

u l - altho gh all tradition of any dwe ling house there is lost . There are the remains of a moat in a ﬁeld to the righ t of the high road , leading from Bletchingley to God

- n . sto e , nearly opposite the Ivy house Farm Parish Lim sﬁeld 162 2 2 6th : Register, p , , November Buried a ”

n Ca s in h ur s t . you g daughter of Philip g , of the Moate ’ BRILLS , the name of a farm , probably a possessor s name . ’

P R IVE TTs . , a possessor s name In the Parish Register im ﬁ L s eld 172 8 v . of p , , occurs the name of Pre et BLACK ROBINS , the name of a farm , called , in a Deed 1685 1781 of , Long Robyns , or Robbins , and , , Black

8 . . Robbins , and in the Extent of Hen VI , Broun 1 robyns . I have already alluded to the popular theory , ‘ that these names with Robbin are so called fr om the ‘ ’ poverty of the soil , and in this case ( Starveacre is the name of a field on the farm) the name would ’ a . pply Hungry Haven , on Great Brown s Farm , is not ff far o . ’ BU TCH E R s n Woo for this farm , and for the bank of wood opposite . It is so called , thus runs the local tradition , from the fact that one Wood , a Lim sfield w butcher in p , and o ner of this farm , was murdered at this spot , and that his body was thrown m into the limekiln and burnt . This story must have so e n foundation , and it is curious , in referri g to the old y 1685 deeds , to find that , about the ear , the inheritance in fee of these premises , called Long Robyns , escheated a t to Sir Marmaduke Gresham , B r , then lord of the u manor , pon the attainder of Thomas Wood , late of

L m s ﬁeld . y p , butcher , deceased The name of Butcher 1560 occurs in the Parish Register as far back as , an d possibly it is derived thence .

a li a s . PARTRIDGE FARM , BENNETTS Both names are from

1 84. t i . . v l. v i . a C ll. o S u rrey Arch . o p r p S URREY ETYMOLOGIES . owners or occupiers ; the former dates from the time o f lVillia m P artri ch w. . Z) E d II , when we find among the a nd a re a t o a t en ants , ble identify the f rm by the fact that it is t here said that he pays a rent of 4d . yearly for a right of exit on to S tafh ur s t Wood ; and in the Extent of Par tr ich a 16 8 Hen . VI . , John holds a messu ge and a cres of land near S t a fii rst es wo d e. The nam e of Part ridge Fa rm occurs o n a tombstone in Limp sfi eld church n o w yard of the beginning of this century , but it is ’ W l g enerall y lm o wn a s Bennett s . The name of il iam

Benet occurs in the Extent of 8 Hen . VI .

f l VB l TE H orssn R a lia s S rx cxns . FA M , The latter is the a a a n d f ncient n me , is derived from the amily of Stacey , wh o are still to be met with in these parts . In the

y a 19 . Surve of Oxted M nor of Eliz , Stacie his Farm is mentioned as one of the boundaries : the bounds of Lim ﬁ ld ps e aud Oxted manors meet on this farm . Stacey th e r 1569 u l occurs in Pa ish Register , , and in a Co rt Rol

15 . t i r t s y . S ac es c o fte. of Ti e , Ric II , is a ﬁeld called ’ G R BBS a lia M C s ot sr s r . , , a possesso s name John

t . 8 . Grubbe appears as a enant in the Extent of Hen VI , ’ a f among others , holding l nd at Sta ford s Wood , near h whic this is situated . Mouses appears as Mush er te in t h t 6 E e II . dw. Moush er s ti s f ld Ex ent of , and as e in that of 8 Hen . VI in which we find the names of John Mo ush er s t Mon s and Gilbert , holding a toft and a garden ’ t f lVo od ‘ at S a ford s ; and in a Court Roll of Oxted , of 14 E V dw. I . M u r we find a field called o seh e st .

, a i PLUM PARK a sm ll ﬁeld ly ng by itself in the , d f ’ d mi dle of Sta ford s Woo , charged , under the will of 1710 1 . John Wood , in , with an annuity of 08 to the poor Lim s ﬁeld b u of p , to y thirty loaves of good bread at 4d . the loaf, to be distributed to thirty poor people of the t h parish , at the discretion of e churchwardens and over seers t o be given and distributed at the church porch u n pon every Good Friday in the fore oon . The name does not appear in the early records , but probably it is a n ancient name , and a very old inclosure . The word ‘ ’ - A . - , S . , i pluma a plum or plum tree , enters nto the a a . a n mes of several pl ces There is a pl ce in Kent , SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 3 7

1 - A . S . mentioned in the Charters , singularly like it in ‘ ’ — Plum w r di n r ea ea r o ca s i . e. a form , g p , the p rk or in

r o f lumwar d - closu e the p , or keeper of the plum trees . Plumh r c Plum ri d e In the same charters are y g ( g , in Plumleah Worcester) , (Plumley , Berks) , and Plumstead ,

Kent and E ssex . Plum P ark is the inclosure of the - t f t plum rees , and a fords a good ins ance of the prim ary ‘ ’ ‘ ’ n t ar r o ear ro c sig iﬁca ion of the word p g , or p , park ;

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y a n . Cr abb ett namel , inclosure Wood , on Grant s ’ r n cr abb a Farm , is of a kind ed origin , bei g derived from ,

- - A . S . A elt un , a crab tree ; as also p , a field in Caterham . d n The present occupier understan s it , from its bei g a i th e l th e sol tary inclosure in midd e of waste , in the sense of a plum taken out of t h e puddin g . ’ STEWARD S LAND . Two fields lying by themselves at ’ an d Stafford s Wood , doubtless inclosed at some time i l from the wa st e . They may have or gina ly been allotted t a to some steward of t h e manor . S eward is s id to be ’ fi ’ om s towewear d th e ll derived , keeper of the dwe ing place . ’ ’ T H E H onx s Stafi or d s , a cottage and inclosure on th Wood . In e Ch art is a piece of ground adjoining the

n . In bou dary of Westerham , called Horns Acre the 5 E ix Extent of dw. II . s acres of wood are mentioned in V I . H r n l n H or neslan d a n d of 8 . o es o d , in that Hen i occurs . This latter place is not ident ﬁed , but it is somewh ere in the district c alled Chart . I believe the ‘ ’ 3 derivation to be from horn , a corner . The Horns is ” ’ . t f n at the corner of S a ford s Wood , and Hor s Acre is in t h It a th e a corner of e Chart . is remark ble that Horns th an d is now in part e property of Richard Heath ,

8 . VI . occupied by him and that in the Extent of Hen ,

John atte Hethe appears as tenant of H or n eslon d . I n - am i formed that there was a public house at this spot , by the sign of the Horn s . BIR CH IX H ALL , another name for the Horns , men

1 16 5 2 01 670 12 62 . emble de i lo ma t a r t . K , Co x D p , C , , , 9 6 d n te. t 1. . 8 an v i . a S ee mar u O M v ol . e S e A h . C r ks rr y rc , p r p , o 3 S ee a nte M. . 85 . , , p 3 8 s ummer ETYMOLOGIES .

‘ ’ - r o A . S . 172 7. t io ned in a Deed of It is f om beor , , ’ - r l . a bi ch tree , and ha l , a house It was a noted In resort for smuggl ers . Chelsham is a ﬁeld called

Birch Il all .

E LLB a li a s L . VINT , LENTI S , a small farm I can suggest

no deriva tion for this n ame . I GH I I RIDGE , so called from its situation on the high

ground a djoining Merle Common . D a lia s R owLAND s th e w HIGH LAN S , , are high , other ise ’ ‘ ’ ‘ A t a S aﬁ r th e ro w . t o d s , or rough lands crof ne r d H e h elan d Woo , of nine acres and a half, called g ,

is mentioned i n the Extent of 5 E dw. II . ; and in H e elon desh a h e t 8 . . hat of Hen VI occurs y g , Highlands

li a we. ’

W IN T . NE G ONS . Probably a possessor s name

BATTE R E LLS a li as R E D R . , LANE FA M It occurs in the Bater llslon d 8 . . e Extent of Hen VI as , and in a Court

1 . 9 E dw. Roll of Oxted of IV , to which parish it adjoins , Bater ll 1745 Batt rh ill e s e . y , and in a conveyance of , as It ’ does not appear to be a possessor s name , and admits

of no satisfactory explanation . r e HOLLAND , the name of an old dwelling , now

moved , but retained in Holland Lane , is probably from ‘ ’ li ollow— l w. a liel , a hole or , the land in the hol o In

2 6 . . Court Roll of Titsey , Hen VIII , some land is men ti n d o e H allon d . , called TH E R ocx s a li a s Barons d 19 , (Rental of Oxte , Eliz . , tli o e R icks) . The ﬁrst name is from the character of

the soil , which is of a sandy , rocky nature . Will atte Rokke is the name of one of the tenants in the Extent of 5 E d ’ w. the second is a possessor s name . Henry a 5 . E dw. Brice appe rs on the Homage in II , and in the 8 . Extent of Hen VI . there is one of the same name . In n the same Exte t some land is mentioned , called Brices lo ud n Bri si n x r , and agai c oft . It is difﬁcult to distinguish la which nd is part of the Rocks , and which is at a place

still called Brice Cross . The origin of Brice Cross is fromthe saint St . Brice , to whom a cross was probably d ed a t t icated tha Spot . His festi v al was on November 13 th , d a i n 1002 on which y , , the Danes in England were

40 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

R idden s n Ta ts ﬁeld Court Farm , , But Ridde , Great

- lidd ei i a . But l , Ch lk ridden a Wa rlingh m , The Ridings , and Button Ridden ’ Roll , Chelsham , Scott s Hall Farm ,

R idd en s .

ﬁ ld R i dden s . l i i mps e Lodge Farm , the

C rouch House Farm , Edenbridge , Great , Little , and

High R idd en s .

e R idden s R i dden s . O xt d , Foyle and the This makes more than thirty instances within a very

small compass . l

John Redcloud occurs in the Extent of 8 Hen . VI . as i one of the tenants , tak ng his name , doubtless , from the

pl a ce . LOCKIIU R S T Lock er s , a corruption of y , occurs as L o k r lon d L ki r sl n d 5 E dw. c e s o c e o (Extent , y and L ock ar l n d 1 L oc k er s den t 8 . e s a 2 y (Exten , Hen ( It Anne) . is probably a possessor s name , though the n ame does not occur in the early Extents of the Manor . E H ADLANDS , immediately adjoining the common or a H eth lon d s he th , is properly , and is so written in the

Extent of 8 Hen . VI .

L OMDAR D R NS a lia s LUMBAR D INGS . , , a small farm There h is a wood of the same name on Chels am Court Farm , Lumb ar den s in Chelsham , and Great and Little are the d Beddl t e names of two ﬁelds a joining it on es d Farm . It 2 u t is suggested by Mr . Edm nds hat these words are ’ m derived from Lamba , the na e of a chief (or clan) and

- lie cites Lamb hithe , Lambeth Lamberhurst , Kent ; b and Lam ourn , Berkshire , in support of this opinion . CR O WH UR sT 1720 , mentioned in a Deed of , is not , I ' - think , like the parish of Crowhurst , the Crow s wood , ’ but a possessor s name . Robert Crowhurst appears in

8 . . l the Extent of Hen VI , and there is sti l a family of t a his n me living in the parish . The Deed above cited

1 A m n m g e p pe ty lately a d v e ti ed ale i n G dalmi n g an d . o so ro r r s for s o h i din ld w “ ’ C d gfo ere 11 a cres of lan d called Th e B iddi n gs E ydo n i s t h e n a me a la e n ea W a t h et S me et h i e an d a l a a i h of p c r c , o rs s r , so of p r s i n N l orfo k . 2 T ac e o 11i to i n th e N a me o P la 23 s f e 8. r s ry s f c s , R E SU REY ETYMOLOGI S . 41

describes it as a ﬁeld of three acres , abutting to the common . MOOR HOUSE appears as Mor elon d in the Extent of

8 . . Hen VI , and in the Parish Register as Moorhouse and the Moor . It is so called from its situation at the f edge O the moor or common . ’ P ASTE NS , or PASTINGS , is probably a possessor s name , but I can give no authority in support of it , and I do not ﬁnd the name in any early deeds . ’ ’ C H AW r VI AR S , w itten also Vigor s , Wickers , and

8 . . t Vigorous in the Extent of Hen VI , which lat er I ’ ’ take to be a corruption of Vigor s House . Vicar s Haw i is not, I th nk , in any way to be connected with our ‘ ’ ’ w word Vicar, nor like the Vicar s Oak in Nor ood , referred to by Mr . Flower . I think it is from some

O f . person of the name Vicker or Vigor Haw, according ’ ‘ t o m a V Leo , y be rendered iew ; and if this be correct , th e it would in this case be singularly applicable , view from this spot being one of the ﬁnest and most extensive 3 i i i in the whole d st ct . Taylor interprets Haw to mean wh ei e wn s n on a place trees have been he , and almost y y O f mous with ﬁeld . Watts Haw is the name some land ’ O f on the side Pain S Hill in this pari sh , commanding n a Clerkesh a h a dista t view over the We ld and g , Bern eh a h Cali r esh awe Ch erteh a h g , p , g , all occur in the

Extent of 8 Hen . VI .

5 E dw. . CH AR TLAND . Mentioned in the Extent of II , an d described there as consisting of 2 7—5 acres in two f 6d . O ﬁelds , worth per acre In the Deed Conveyance from Sir Charles Gresham , Bart . , to the trustees of Ten i s on Archbishop , to whose Charity the farm still belongs , it is described as eight parcels of land , called

Chart Lands and Chai t Haws . The name is derived from its having originally , no doubt , formed part of i n the Chart , to which it adjoins , and having been i : w Ch ert erid en closed fro n it hich , mentioned also in

5 . E dw. . II , would seem to imply The occurrence of haw

1 i i 45. l . i . 2 h ll. v o . S u e A . C rr y rc o , p 9 5 11 . N a me o P la ces . s f , p 3 480. W a n d P la e . ords c s, p 42 SURR E Y E TYMO Loui E S .

t n here would apply , as in the las insta ce , to a ﬁne point of view .

s E AR N a li a s CE AR N . T h i C , BANK The local pronuncia ai n c an d O f O f tion is S , in a Rental the Manor Lang

671 . hurst , 1 , occurs Saines Field In noticing the same 1 Li n fi cld wa s n ame under g , I suggested that possibly it ’ 2 ‘ - . w S . r c earn A . derived f om , , a pine Taylor , ho ever , remarks that in no Single instance in the charters do we meet with a name implying the existence of any kind of pine or fir , a circumstance corroborating the assertion i n r of C aesar , that there was no fir found B itain ; so that it is more probably a tribal name , from the tribe or clan of the Cc arn ingas .

TU E Lim sﬁeld . GROVE , a portion of p Common In a

. n f 15 . O Court Roll of Titsey, Ric II , and a Re tal ’ ’

1402 . a , is a place called Le Grove It is from gr f, a wood . L ANGH U R ST , anciently called the B orough of Langhurst , ’ for which a headborough used to be chosen at the Sheriff s tourn for the hundred , is a separate manor . It went with the manors of Sanderstead and Felcourt , in Ling ﬁeld an d , formed part of the possessions of the Abbey of

. 6 15 9 . 8 Hide It was granted at the dissolution , Feb , ,

Kt . to Sir John Gresham , , by whose descendant , Sir d Kt . n OWn stea Richard Gresham , , it was sold to Joh in 1591 Tr e r ux v e e . , and is now held by the owner of Courts n are no lo ger held the last was held in 1788. It is the

- Lang hyrst , or long wood . Being in the Weald district, it was originally no doubt wood , and the prefix describes w its Shape , which is a long narro strip on the eastern border of the parish . Starting on the north somewhere Li m s field d below p Common , it runs to E enbridge parish on the south , being bounded on the east by the brook m which parts Kent and Surrey , and on the west fro the Manor of Li mp sfield by a small tributary stream which ’ j oins the main brook on Batchelor s Farm . Robert de La n enh ers t i n 5 E d g appears the Extent of w. II . It includes within it the following farms and places

S u A h e . ll l v i v o . 97. rr y rc Co , . p . 2 W d a n d P la e . 367. or s c s , p ' ‘ SURREY E l Y MOLOGI ES . 43

TRE VE R E UX m , entioned above . COU LD E N COU LD E NS , or , a farm belonging to Arch ’ T eni s on s bishop Charity at Croydon . It is mentioned 1626 ’ in a Court Roll of , and is a possessor s name , as I ﬁnd in the Parish Register of 1583 the name O f

Coldi n .

GU ILD ABLE S . The name has been already explained l 1 under Li n gﬁe d . It is here not only the farm of that 1694 name , which is mentioned in a Court Roll of as a 40 Geld l messuage and lands containing acres , called ab es a 88 (the f rm which now bears the name is acres) , but a lso a district , for in the same Court Roll we ﬁnd Sir K 16 t . 0 William Hoskyns , , holding acres of land called Bat ch eler s Geldables , lying in a place called the , and William Fuller holding 8 acres and 15 acres respectively f in the same . The actual limits O it it is impossible to ascertain , or what was the nature of the tribute to which

. 1568 it was assessed In a Rental of Chelsham , , is a il en d ﬁeld called G d eﬁl . ’ ’

BATOE E LOR S M . FAR , a possessor s name It occurs in B h ll r 8 . . atc e e s a Court Roll of Hen VIII as , and in the 1592 Parish Register in occurs the name of Batcheller , l which as Batchelor sti l exists in the parish . ’ MONKS , also a possessor s name , and not , as might appear , the property of any monastic body . The name Mon ke i n 1684 of appears the Parish Register in , and still rem ains in the district . There is a small farm in

Tat s ﬁ eld of the same n ame .

88 . CAPERS , a small farm . In a Court Roll of Eliz a w Ca er slan d meado is mentioned called p , and in one of h a r lan 3 . e s d 1 . C Hen VIII occurs pp , neither of which

f . admits O any satisfactory explanation In an earlier Roll , 40 m en 5 . t viz . Hen . VIII , a tof and acres of land is ti on ed Co w er slon d , called p , which appears again as Cowps , and the late tenant John Cowper . This far exceeds the n o t present size of the farm , and it is easy to see why Cowpers should become altered into Capers but I Offer it as the only suggestion I can give .

1 98. i . . M v ol . v S u e A h . CO rr y rc , p l. I. SURR EY ETYMOLOGIES .

The following are all names mentioned in the Court 1 Rolls of the Manor of Langhurst : ' l l R S rE i . e. L E U (Court Roll , now the Hurst, the w m a m ood , y be compared with the sa e name at Oxted , a n d conﬁrms the supposition that Langhurst was once

- chieﬂy or entirely wood land . l 2 I lan d 7 . I S LAND . wa n es S WA N S y (Court Rol , Hen VII ) ,

- S wai n eslan d M. ( , Swaynes barres , now known as S wa in s la n d a - B rn , is from the Anglo Saxon a ’

h d . swai n or er sman The preﬁx swan , which enters

- into many place names , is sometimes from the bird the a sw n ; but in this case , and in that of a place in Kent , ’ 2 S wa n ad i on u Swan den , , mentioned in the Charters ,

r . the ﬁ st syllable being long , shows it to refer to a swain

i n d . These bars old ays were very common Aubrey , lVarlin h am under g , says , Between the way from hence to the road from Croydon to Coulsdon is an Old great ”

Bar . , as also two Barrs more in Croydon road LE CLE E VE LAND S l b lan d Cli velan d . C e Cleves , y , , Cleve 1 16 . . 8 . 46 16 . Platt (Court Rolls , , Hen VIII , Hen VIII ) Cleth e lan d h s t e . , Chelsham (Rental , perhaps same f 3 Cleeve , Cleve , Clive , or Cli f, is given by Mr . Edmunds v as a steep bank , and occurs in arious places of the n f t & c . ame of Cli f, Clif on , If so , it is synonymous with h the banky ﬁelds whic are so numerous in the district .

- a A . . S . H lliwell gives Cleve , , a dwelling a li as GAYLAND s GARLANDS , are the gay or forward lands . To say that wheat or other corn is looking gay is a common expression in the district to a mean forw rd . S TONE YSH OTT a lia 19t s STONE Y SH O TE . h . 18 U . , ( Oct , Hen

VIII . , Robert Heath is presented for cuttin g two oaks ’ ’ S ton e sh ow & at y te. ) If Taylor s explanation O f Shot th e i . e. h be correct one , a wood , alt ough it is far from satisfactory , this would mean the Stony - wood ; and so

in dl lent me in e ti n b OX E C . h H . s Tr vereux t e K y for sp c o y , q, of e , e en t l pr s ord . 9 K om le de i l ma t a t 36 , . 4 b x D , . ' Co p o C r l ra cn O 1 s f 1i t i n th e N a me o P la e 189. s ory s f c s, W a nd P la e . 3 0 6 . ords c s, p SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 45 far as this particular place is concerned it is a correct appellation . It is a wood , and the soil is what is locally ’ cli a v o ck called y , a mixture of clay and stone . There are t wo other places mentioned in these Rolls which ’ terminate in Shot, viz . Cockshot Field and Cockshot H ebh er a lia s H iber sh ott H i h Mead ; , Croft, and t er sh ot

. c o ok Field The ﬁrst would be from the bird the , the second is the hither or further ﬁeld . Cockshot Hill is n d the name of a hill between Reigate and Redhill , a of a wood in Caterham . The word occurring in connec ’

& c . n tion with ﬁeld , mead , , makes Taylor s expla ation 1

f . very doubt ul Mr . Flavell Edmunds explains shot to ’ s c eot a n be from , to shoot , indicating an offshoot from a larger hill or range of hills and , as far as orthography m goes , his explanation appears the ost probable , for it is fﬁ ’ di cult to see how holz , German , a wood , English holt, became corrupted into Shot . and to account for the appear

t. m ance ofthe letter At the same time , although this ean f ing of of shoot would apply in a great many cases , in others , as in Aldershot , it certainly would not , for the alder does not grow on the hills . The same writer Co ck sh ott gives , Yorkshire , and Cockshutt , Hereford , h t and explains them to mean a little s ee or spur .

Cock , he says , means little , but on what authority I do not know , for I cannot ﬁnd the word given in that sense ; and where it does occur as a preﬁx , it is no

Gos for d s &c . . doubt like the , Henleys , , from the bird W i n sh ot is the name of the hill leading O ffthe common ’ - t th e to Hookwood , and may be from winces shot , spur ’ i win cel of the h ll in the , the nook or angle ; or possibly ’ it is from whin , the furze or gorse , which grows very abundantly there .

a li a s W YMBLE S 81 . . WIMBLES , (Court Rolls , Hen VIII 88 and It is described as three crofts , a mes 2 - . In suage , and a garden the Anglo Saxon Charters is

- - a place in Middlesex called Wemba lea . Wimble bent is 3 given by Halliwell as the name of a long , tall grass ;

1 282 V abula . T a e o H i s t i n th e N a me o P la es . r c s f ory s f c , p , oc ry 2 220. em le dex i l ma t a t . K b , Co D p o , C r 3 i ti n a o A h a i a n d P vi n i a l W d i n e . D c o ry f rc c ro c or s , v rbo ' ‘ E 46 SURREY E l YMO LOGI S .

u ; a n d , again , wimble is a word still in use for an a ger but n either of these seem very probable derivations . R E R 162 6 NIC IIO LU OO (Court oll , ) is another of the many ‘ ’ hooks , or corners . The ﬁrst part of the name is per ha ps connected with St . Nicholas . ’ P ublett TTS a lia s P UPLE TTS . I UBLE , Barne (Court Rolls , ’ n d d 88 . a 1646 2 E dw. . a n , , VI , Eliz ) is an owner s name th e n ame existed in th e parish n ot long ago . In Farley p a rish is a wood called P uplet Wood . ’ S O LI.AM S LAND is from a family of that name , who appear as tenants in 1648 and 1671.

P R ID D LE S . I can give no explanation of this name .

The following are names of woods , hills , and other places in the parish which are in use at this day D E TILLE NS an , the name of old house in the village , D etillen is from the family of , probably a French O f refugee family, who possessed it at the end the last century . 1712 1723 E . P BBLE BALL HILL (Deed , and , Pribble Ball 1792 Lim sﬁeld Hill ; , Pebble Hill ; in an old map of p ,

Triple Bowl Hill . ) On the top of this hill , on the common ,

- was the bowling green , and therefore I suppose the name is in some way connected with the game of bowls . Al f Bowling ley is the name O a ﬁeld in Chelsham .

RIPS HILL and the RIPS COMMON , on the road to Wester 1 ham . I have already pointed out, under a place of the

- same name in Godstone , that the commonly accepted s u derivation of ripa is erroneo s , and have suggested 2 H r H r the mythical yp or eopa . Mr . Edmunds cites a - H r l eo e e . place in Kent, p g , now Ripple ’ N PAI S HILL is from the name of a man . I ﬁnd Richard 5 E d . Peyn mentioned in the Extent of wII . as formerly

. 8 . holding some land In the Extent of Hen VI . some P a n eslon d e an d land is Spoken of called y , two crofts of 10 land containing acres , and a messuage formerly of

. P a n Nicholas Payn , are mentioned y esﬁeld is the name Lim sﬁ l of a wood in Oxted , on the borders of p e d . Pain es

S u e A h . ll v l . v i a o . t i . 9 rr y rc Co , p r p . 3 . 2 ’ fl races o H i t r i n th e N mes o P la a e . 2 74. f s o y f c s , p

'‘ 48 S URREY E l YMO LOG IE S .

’ 8 . . Boro of L anghurst . In the Extent of Hen VI li stren i n t . Co e is a croft c alled , and being jux aposition li la n d s th e with Clen c c , name of lands adjoining , there is no doubt i t is the same place . It is probably derived r from some owne . H ONE S LAND E I. Nn a lia s Il eS A , WOOD , is , I believe , from ’ h éan r , high or poor , as I have already noticed unde 1 w Hanle Wood , in Oxted . The character of the ood amply justiﬁes the designation of poor . G a lia s ALLEYS WOOD , GALLEY LANDS , I conceive to be ’ - r A . S . . f om gale , , a nightingale The district abounds an d with them , I am writing this within a few hours of listening to a chorus of them in this very wood . The

a - d C lly bird is a name for the woo pecker , so , perhaps , he may share with the former the distinction of having given the n ame to this wood . Such places Often take their n ame ﬁ* om gallows having been erected there ; but of thi s there is no local tradition . ’

L C . KEL COPPI E , on Batchelor s Farm So called from a limekiln at the end of it ; kill or kell being the local pronunciation for a kiln .

CR ONR LAND S Cronk slan d 12 . ( , Deed , Anne) This is a ’ possessor s name . Thomas Cr on ge appears among the

O f . . tenants in the Extent 8 Hen VI , and the name Cr on ke 5 appears as in the Parish Register in 1 48. It still exists in the neighbourhood . - P IT l m LOAM WOOD , so ca led from a large pit in it , fro which probably cla y was dug for the manufacture of pottery . In the Middle Ages there was a considerable a Lim sﬁeld m nufacture of pottery in p , as appears by la - a rge refuse he ps , two of which were on land adjoining this wood . The fact is further conﬁrmed by the Extent 5 E dw. of VI . , which mentions Roger and Geoffrey , the an d 8 ‘ . VI . potter ; in that of Hen , in which Potters occurs as the name of a cottage .

C . TIIE BIR HES Numbers of woods bear the name , the O f birch being one the indigenous trees in this country .

- A . e. . It occurs in various places in the S . Charters ; g ,

S u ra 16. p , p . R E 'I‘ Y MOL GI E SUR EY O S . 49

Beor c - Beor c - In & c . ham , lea , Berkeley , the Extent of ’ 8 . . le B r ch et Hen VI a place is mentioned , called y , in ’

. n r Pollard s Wood On the Ma o Farm , Farley, is some woodland called Birc h in Shaw .

LAKE STREET . This word street always denotes an old line of road , and very frequently a Roman road . The 1 - Saxons , says Taylor , were not road makers they even a borrowed their name for a road from the Latin langu ge . ‘ ’ The Roman strata became the Saxon street . There was an old track here leading from the high road across ’ Lake Street Green and over Watt s Hill to the Chart ; whence the name street . Lake I imagine to be derived from its swampy position , a great part of the road being h n 5 . t e E d . l ordinarily under water In Exte t of w I . o f Thomas atte Lak is mentioned ; and in that 8 Hen .

. i a l as . VI a place , called Le Lake , La Lak Lac , Laca , A - . S . a , is not necessarily a l ke , as we understand it , a

. m large piece of water , but a pool In the Promptoriu ” ’ P ar v ulorum s ton d n lake is explained as y g watur , a ﬁt description of this place . Lagham , in Godstone , 2 u I refer to the same source . In a Co rt Roll of Titsey , m a n ar 2 . d 6 . e o w e Hen VIII , is a the brook, called L k a esm ede.

Old GRUB STREET , the name of another line of road , leading formerly from Limp sﬁ eld Common to Titsey .

One is reminded of a street of the same name in London , though the origin of the one and the other is very dif f r n e e t . The latter was so called from its mean , dirty ’ appearance ; the former is either a possessor s name ,

u n 8 . . from John Gr bb , me tioned in the Extent of Hen VI , ’ and who , as stated before , has left his name in Grubb s 3 Farm , or it is the grubbed street , the road made by grubbing wood and trees . Other instances of street are W French Street and Well Street , in esterham ; Old

1 . Strete (Court Roll of Oxted , Hen VI) ; Roseland i Strete , in Oxted ; h ghway called East Strete (Court H eav en strete 8 E dw. Roll , Warlingham , VI ) ; (Rental

1 2 50. W rd a nd P la e . o s c s , p 2 0 . 9 . l v i a t i . A ll v o . . S u r e h . r y rc Co , p r p 3 A 3 5 . n te . , p 50 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

Old stret 1 of Chelsham , (Court Roll , Titsey,

VIII C udli am . H o n . ) ; South Street , ’ ’ WO LR S Row and W OLE S WOOD are from a former pos

s es s or of that name . I meet with Wolfe in the Parish

Register i n 1565 . D i ti n DIPSON BOTTOM , Spelt in an old map p Bottom , is where the road dips an d then suddenly rises

g a . D ain K ENT C HAT H , mentioned in a Court Roll of Wester a 1668 Lim s ﬁeld h in of , is where the parishes of p and

) Ves ter li am and the counties of Kent and Surrey meet . ‘ ’ At this place stood formerly , no doubt, a hatch , or hitch gate . On the high road between Lynmouth and

Porlock stands a gate called County Gate , on the con H o elot - ﬁnes o fDevonshire and Somersetshire . g es hache occurs in the old Court Rolls of Titsey . W L HITE MARE , the name of a large pond on imps ’ - ﬁ eld A . S . Common , is from the mere , a pool white is ’ - a A . S . . probably a corruption of w et , , wet I remember seeing a place of the same name in Wales , advertised as ’ a meet of Sir Watkin Wynne s hounds . ’ CHAMPIONS , or CHAMPION S PITS , the name of a cluster of cottages on the common , and of the waste adjoining , which has been all dug over for stone , but the pits have ’ long been disused . It may possibly be from an owner s name , but more probably , I think , records the deeds of some hero of former days , whether champion archer or wrestler . 1 IA - ll S I GS POND . A shack hole is gi v en by Ha iwell as

- a hollow in the ground which receives the surface water . I never heard the word used in that sense in this dis t rict , but it exactly describes the position of this pond , which is at the foot of a steep hill . In a Rental of 1568 Sh a ard en e. Chelsham , , is a ﬁeld called g A LFO NE SME D E 5 E d w. (Extent , I take to be a E lﬁn m corruption of es ede. In the same Extent we

E lf - n f . es cr o t . have a place called y y It is from the A S . ’ clfc a , an elf or fairy , and is one of the many n mes

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f : E lfen den derived rom mythology other like names are , 1 Elvaston . BE T- LE s - H AM i d t ( ) , described there as a ﬁeld of hirteen

- acres , now fourteen acres , pronounced Beetles ham , is a Lini sﬁ eld Bedlesh am ﬁeld on p Park Farm , spelt also ’ ’ l - P dl sh m . Bet e e a b etles A . S . and , genitive , is for a beetle . Scarcely any animal , or even insect , was too

- insigniﬁcant to enter into Anglo Saxon nomenclature , as L ech for d L ech m ere may be seen from and , derived from the leech ? BU SAR D E SLAND i d u ( ) is from the b sard or buzzard , h 3 w ich Mr . Yarrell says is one of the most common of the larger hawks which inhabit the wooded districts of this country . The very large woods in this parish would have been congenial to them . Leighton Buzzard u is not , says Taylor& from this bird; but a corr ption of

Leighton Beaudesert .

CLE NOH E SLAND i d Clen ch eslon d 8 . ( ) , (Extent , Hen Clen ch lan d s VI) , now , or Clenches , described in the 6—1 40 5 E dw. . as 8 Extent of II 2 acres , now acres , Showing how little variation there is in the quan m a tities between that time and the present day . It y ’ be an owner s name , though the name does not occur ff in the early Deeds . I can o er no other explanation for it . ‘ ’ - ld . E LD E H AW E i d A . S . ea ( ) is from the , old There

- are various places in the A . S . Charters with the preﬁx

E l nh ali l & c . . a d enh a m E ald an leah E alda viz , , Aldenham , , , ’ - E LLIOTE s i d . GRAVE ( ) , a possessor s name The name t h e does not occur in the early records , but in church E l o tt 1644 is a small brass , To George y , died ,

Groom of the Priv ie Chamber of the Queen . He may h a ve belonged to an old family of the name i n the pla ce .

1 L w L S ee e n t. t i 29. o t . o r, Co , p 2 H alliwell Di ti n a o Ar h a i a n d P vi n i a l W d ex lai n , c o ry f c c ro c or s , p s ‘ ’ Betle t ﬁ tted c ulti at i n a t e m a li ed t o la n d— N th , sof , for v o , r pp or un t d Th e w d i n i en e ei n a n th c un t w d co ry wor . or th s s s b g or o ry or , h i we S h ould be h ardly j usti ﬁed i n ac cepti n g i t as th e d eri vati on of t s m n a e. 3 B i i h B v ol i . t i d . . 7 7. r s r s, p 4 P 39 W d a n d la s . e 0. or s c , p 52 SURREY ETYMOLOGIE S .

’ ’ r Grave or g af, a wood or grove , is retained in the

n a me of a part of the common called the Grove . I n E AS TO VENY E (id) . the same Extent are mentioned e W esto ven e Middleo v eny and y , and in an old Court di s Roll of Oxted occurs O ven eye. They were three r ic ts n 38 61 60 t o the hill , containing respectively , , and a r m a c res . It is clear th t f om very early ti es , judging fro m the large size of the chalk - pits and the quantity of u ref se that has been wheeled out , that there were lime kilns at various places along the hills . It appears to me probable that these places were named from the

- A . S . . ovens or kilns . Ofen is for an oven or furnace O n Chelsham Court Farm are two ﬁelds called Oven holes Bottom and O ven h oles Top . Fule ro ve F U LE ME D E id . ( ) Compare also g , in Prink Lin ﬁeld th e ham , g , mentioned in same Extent , and

F o wlwa . y, the name of a ﬁeld in Warlingham It is ex ’ ’ - ai fii l . r A . S . pl ned to be f om the , foul or dirty In the 1 Anglo - Saxon Charters a place is mentioned in Surrey ulebrOc ulbrook an d called F , F ; and Fulham , Middlesex , 2 various other places , are referred to the same root but , ‘ ’ f l A - u e . S . according to Lower , they are from g , for a h bird ; w ence our word fowl . G AME LYNGD id . E NE 8 H en . VI . ( , and Extent , , Rental Gamel n den e of Titsey , There was a grange at y g , tem E . dw. p II . It was in the northern part of the parish . 3 The Ga meli ngas are given by Kemble among the mark names , from which he derives Gamlingay (Camb ) and

- Gembling (York ) . Other places are Gamble by an d 4 6 Ga melsth or - p and in the A . S . Charters a place Gam l n h e a wr t . in Kent , called y To the same source, f therefore , this word must be re erred .

GE LD E NE W OD E i d - ( ) is for Geldan or Gildan wood , the wood that paid the gild or tribute , like the name of G uildable , before mentioned , but not the same place , as

1 emble dex i l ma t t a . 98 . K , Co D p o , C r 7 2 E ’ dmun d Tra es o H i t i n th e N a me o P s c f y f la es . 2 10. 1 c , p 3 s or s S a x ns i n E n la nd v 1 ol . 46 . . 4. o g , p ’ E dmund T ac e O t. s 2 12 . s r s i , p . 5 emble de i l ma t a t . 40 . K , Co x D p o , C r 7 SURRE Y ETYMOLOGIES . 53

that was within another manor , that of Langhurst . In t a Gils d n Ca erham is a field c lled Upper e . GR E GOR IE S E E LD G RE GOR IE SD E NE i d and ( ) , land on the hill , the name probably of some possessor , who does not appear in any of the early Deeds . ‘ ’ NE TTE SLAND i d a A - S . HAMO ( ) Ne t is . for cattle , 1 Nutfor d which we find , says Taylor , at and Netley . Nutfi eld in this county is probably from the same source .

a - Bosworth , in his Dictionary , gives ne t land to mean Nett sl d land let or rented if this be correct , Hamo e an is the land rented by one Hamo . ’ H ALE MANNE S LOND i d a ( ) is possibly from h ela , a hero , ’ 2 assumed also as a man s name . Mr . Edmunds cites - Glouc e Hail weston , Hailes ( ) , Halesowen (Wor ) , Heal & c . haugh (Yorkshire) , IMPE TONE S LAND i d I n ton eslan d 8 ( ) , (Extent , Hen . 3 86 8 . VI) , a ﬁeld of acres roods In the Codex a place ’ Im i n ti i n is given in Cambridgeshire called p (Impington) , 4 Im i n as an d which Kemble refers to the family of p g , d n this , in efault of anything better , is the only expla a tion I can Offer .

JU NONIE i d . 8 . ( , and Extent , Hen VI) , the name of 2 2 a wood , acres , and of a ﬁeld also , the former being

It ch i n wo o d i . near g Common , the latter on the h ll It is ’ a very remarkable name : avis Junonia is used by

Ovid for a peacock , and I can only suggest that it is a piece of monkish Latin but the name occurring in two ’

ff . di erent parts of the parish is strange Peacock s Mead , Tr evereux a meadow in Titsey , and Po Shaw , at , ’ - — o A . S . . p , , a peacock , are perhaps synonymous L U NTE SE OR D i d 3 ( ) , a croft of acres , at a place pro n bably where the stream could be forded . I ca not explain the preﬁx . OTYND E NE i d ( ) , a name still preserved in that of a ’ 5 th e - ﬁeld on Grant s Farm . In Anglo Saxon Charters

1 W d a nd P la e . 468. or s c s, p 2 2 1 T a e O H i t . 2 . r c s f s , p 3 em le de 907. K b , Co x 4 46 . l i . 7 a on s i n E n la n d v o . . S x g , p 5 3 198 409 179. emble d ex i l ma t a t . 2 30 109 K , Co D p o , C r , , , , '‘ 5 l SURR E Y E l YMO LOG IE S .

O tanh rst O tta n fo r da , y , a re pla c es c alled , now Otford Th e Ken t a nd O t a us ih t re. terminations of dene and , ’ hyrs t fo llowing this preﬁx make it impossible to con ’ ‘ - nec t it with ote otyn , the corn , oats Taylor l would : ’ - b u a s v at . ex pla in O tfo rd to e at the ford , q ford

8 . S E N id l l o o s ood redn e , O S icumnc R m ( ) , g (Extent Hen records the clearing m ade by some Saxon of m . th e. n a me of Osgood The same na e appears in - A . S . O s o th i b , g (Osgod y) , Lincoln mentioned in the

Ch a rte rs . ’ 8 . . E PE LD al . I AS S E ME R S ( , and Extent , Hen VI ) is a ’ P a ssemer possessor s n ame . Roger appears as a tenant 3

11. . i n t h e Extent of 5 E dw. Mr Flower mentions a pla ce of th e name of P a s sem ores in Croydon . ’ E STE S ME D E id P res telan de P r estescr oft E x l R ( ) , and (

t t 8 . en , Hen land probably belonging to the Pr iestli ill l v Church . is the name of a ﬁe d in the illage a t the back of the Forge , late part of the glebe . In the 4 - P rés tesméd W o rces P r estem ere A . S . Charters are ( ) , af P reste r &c . (Wilts) , g , Old QUAR R E R E . The existence of stone quarries is as a s Domesday Book . There are two stone quarries , ’

a 2 S . t s ys that S urvey , value and hree hawks nests in ” uarr er e in th e woods . Ral ph de la Q occurs a Subsidy uarr er e Roll of 2 6 Hen . III . Gilbert atte Q is one of the 5 jurors named in th e Extent of E dw. II . The mention of his name and that of John atte Pette , and that of 1Villiam a an d tte Quarre , John atte Pette in the Extent

8 . . h of Hen VI , s ows that the quarries continued in use in the Middle Ages . It is rather singular , however , that i n the construction of so many of the churches in the d - n istrict, the soft chalk stone or clu ch is used , and not the native sandstone . ‘ ’ ’ R US E S LAND i d A - . S . ( ) is from the risc or rusche , R uscomb a rush , which we ﬁnd as a preﬁx in (Berks) , R ush br oc R ush br ook Rushden (Herts) and in , (Oxford)

1 W d d P a n la e . 384 an d 463 or s c s, pp . 2 em le dex i l m a 9 t a t . 08 984. K b , Co D p o , C r , 3 S u e A h . ll . v ol i ii 2 5 . . 3 . rr y rc Co , p . 1 em le Co der Di l ma t a t . 61 329 984. K b , p o , C r , ,

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in assert s th a t Surrey has no combes in which he is arn c ombe H a scomb Addis c o mb c , , , erro r . , Combe F

o a r i n , , C o mb o Bra b s , a m no Godalming Combe Bottom f ld mb b r Co mb o Cli iddi n o , Co o nea r Al u y , Farm , g and W Wood , imbledon , are names which suggest themselves E s tco mb e a t once ; besides Compton , and locally , , men 1402 A n scomb e t io ned in a Rental of Titsey , , and y , a t en ement and 40 acres of land in Warlingham , given in a U tt er cumb e 2 . , C o urt Roll of Eliz , and Bramley Coomb ,

Ald ercoomb l . a n d Upper and Lower , ﬁe ds in Caterham l Kemble E li n a s E O E LYND E NE . gives the g g as one of orth um berlan d the m ark names found at Eglingham , in N ? r E - a n d M . Edmunds refers g dean , Sussex ; Eggesford , ’ ’

e . E ni on t & c . n g , , to Egga , the ow er s nam This word ' i s d o ubtless from one of the two roots . LO R E COTE n F LOND , a pretty ame , signifying the land by the cottage of ﬂowers . Flore is given by Halliwell 3 a s a n ancient form for flower . I have noticed the place 4 called Flore under Godstone .

- A . S . FOU RE H E R NE . Herne is given by Halliwell as for a corner, still applied to a nook of land . In this F o r h r n place three ﬁelds are Spoken of at we e e. On

Tat s field Court Farm are some fields called Clerks Herne . V - lin h am oor e L E . V ar G s GORE In g is a field called , mentioned in a Court Roll of 2 Eliz . Halliwell says that ’ the word gore is explained by Kennett in his Glossary , h a s a small narrow slip of ground . In Cater am is a ’ field called Edmond s Gore . JA COD E S . Some land at the back of the windmill is u ac obus still so called , and it is curio s to note that J atte

Melle is mentioned in this Extent . He was the miller da an d of that y , from him the land got its name . KNOKKE S a w , the s me ord probably which occurs as 5 a i n preﬁx Knockholt . Mr . Edmunds refers the word a l to the Sh pe of a hil , and cites Knockin (Salop) , and Kn oc k lVil ( ts ) .

1 S a x n i n E n la n d l 2 v o . i . . 463 . T a es H 2 o is t. 03 . o s g , p r c f , p . 3 D i et . o A h a i a nd P vi n i a l W d i n v e b . f rc c ro c or s, r o 1‘ S u e A l o h . l v l i . . v t i a . . 94 . rr y rc Co , p r p 5 T a es o 11i 2 f s l . . 3 7. r c , p E SURR Y ETYMOLOGIES . 57

LOVE D AYS LOND . A loveday was a day appointed for the f settlement of di ferences by arbitration . This land may f have been the subject of litigation , and the dif erence wa in respect to it having been settled in this y, it may thence have acquired the name . ‘ ’ ‘ ’ - P R D . E STE E A S . , from pere , peru , a pear ; the rr fi l P e s e d . same prefix as in y , Oxted In this Extent we meet with a field called Perie Croft . In a Rental of

- T atsﬁeld of occurs Perhams . Pear tree Field is ’ Could en s the name of a ﬁeld on Farm in this parish . 1 - In the A . S . Charters are two places called Perh am h m and P er a stede. S TE YNGH OU S S talk n den an d , the dwelling of Roger y , ’ k n d n probably what is now S to c e e s Farm . It is possibly ‘ ’ - - s tan en . a corruption of house , the stone house This was a house of some importance formerly , and the old part is built of stone .

VYNE ACR E . This is one of the many names of places which point to the cultivation of the vine in England ; an d in many parishes there is still a ﬁeld called the n 1402 . w Vineyard In a Re tal of Titsey , , is a meado called Fyn yer de ; mentioned also in a Court Roll of 15 th R i o . II . Among e Surrenden Charters there was a ’ Roll of Accounts of the Abbey of St . Augustine s , I ’ I I . S Canterbury , of the early part of Edward reign , “ ” Vin ei s headed Expense in , giving the salary of the keeper of the vineyard and the different processes of ? “ ” 3 th e . cultivation Vineyards , says Rev Edward Turner , “ were comm on in this country at this early period .

Almost every convent possessed one or more . The Bishop of Rochester ’ s vineyard at Rochester was very extensive , and the monks of the Priory of St . Andrew , h a d w in the same city , a large plantation of vines , hich l ’ is called to this day The Vi n es ﬁ e d . The Abbots of 1865 Battle had extensive vineyards in Battle , and in “ the receipt of moneys from the W yn eyar de of the

1 824 122 3 em le dex i l ma t . a t . K b , Co D p o , C r , , 2 A l i i 2 2 v . 6. r ch aeolo i a Ca n ti a n a o . . g , p ” 3 “ 2 an d P a e on Ba ttle A e S u ex A h . C ll v ol . x v 11. . 3 p r bb y, ss rc o , p , 58 SURR E Y E TYMO LOO IE S .

Rec to ry of l l a wkh er s te occurs as an item . The .Vine ya rd a n d the Vineyard Rocks are names remaining at

, Buxted , in Sussex and in an early deed relating to the ’ i r P n li a m Fitz an s ell l r o y of y , Sussex , Peter gives to the t - Church a gard en an d crof in Warne camp , called the e b Vineya rd . Vin s may yet eseen on the walls of 3 m any of th e O ld cottages in this district . r These , f om the same Extent , are from the names of

owners or occupiers . ‘ Ailwne A LW YNE SCR U FT . Thomas y appears in the Ex a s tent o f5 E dw. II . a tenant ; a name still existing in

the neighbourhood .

E Bok esell . BOGE S E LL . John appears in this Extent

D O R E R NOTE CROFT .

G LOYE R SH OU S . Thomas Glover, a tenant in this Ex

tent . ff G E E E R E YS H ULLE . Geo rey the potter occurs in the

Extent of 5 E dw. II . H en n eh orn e 8 H E NNE H R NE . O William , a tenant ,

Hen . VI . i Malcotes d . MALOOTE SH OU S . John ( )

— - Mi TOi IE LOTE s OR OPT .

8 . . S TE R R E S . Matilda Sterre , tenant , Hen VI The n ame of Steer is still one of the most common in Lim ﬁ l ps e d .

VARDONS . W ILM OTE LOND E . Other instances of this name were mentioned under Bletchi ngley ?

Of the following , from the same Extent , I can give no expl anation Cali resh awe Gonn ore Gr ob oreslan d H alide es p , , , y , H kett Kn okk Pl m r T m es o ae o n s . y , , , y y

The following names are from the Tithe Survey and from Deeds , and are names of ﬁelds still in us e

1 “ Pa e on Battle Abbe u A S s e h . ll v ol x i i . 13 . p r y, s x rc Co , . p . 2 Id . v l o . x i . . 10 , p 3 . 3 F0 r a n t e on th i u e t s ee A r ch ae l i a v ol . 1 4 o o . 34 ” . co rov rsy s s bj c g , r — i n . 0 3 6 7. C en t . 1 5 5 13 77 . h i a n n i n . II i s t . S ur r e 11. 537. , p g, of y , 1 S u e A h . ll. v o l v i . . . 83 . rr y rc Co , p SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 59

d 12 - BAR R OR OFT . A . S . (Dee , Anne) Possibly from the ’ Bar ﬁ ld b ear . e bar , a is the name of a ﬁeld on Botley

Hill Farm . i a F P R . 2 2 H IGH E A E V s s . NOW ( , a portion of the was te near Pebble Hill . This word Nower occurs 1402 in a Rental of Titsey of . De Ricardo W o dd en e pro medietate del Noure —La Noure in a Court Roll of

5 i . 1 R o. Titsey , II The Nower was the name of a wood Ta tsﬁeld in , lately grubbed up , and it is also the name of a hanging - wood at a very steep part of the chalk ran ge in Brasted . In Chelsham also is a hill called

- h Nere ill . Compare also the Nore on the Thames o ff e Sheerness , and Black N re , a cape in Somersetshire , at the mouth of the Severn . It may be connected with ‘ ’ nor , the north . n JOAN AT WELL , the name of a ﬁeld , is nothi g more ’ than Joan atte Well s , who appears on the Extent of D r un t 8 Hen . VI . John e a tenet terras nuper Joh an n e atte Well . The family of Atwell were owners of what is now called Chartwell , in Westerham , anciently Well a l Street , and were a yeoman f mi y of some considera tion . TOH IN 1 fr KI 2 . e CROFT (Deed , Anne) I noticed the 1 quent occurrence of this name under Bletchingley . To a the list there given may be added Kitchen Mead , C ter Lim sﬁeld n ham Kitchen Field , on Park Farm , p Kitche Ten ch le s Mead , y and Stockenden Farms Kitchen Field ,

Foyle Farm , Oxted . In these latter cases it is the ﬁeld m at the back of the house , which explains it ; but in any instances it is found far removed from the dwelling . P AD BR OOH Lim sﬁeld , a meadow at the back of p village , ’

. ad a near the Oxted road The prefix is from p or p eth , - i t A . S . b ut for a path ; as it is nowhere near the brook , ffi u is di c lt to account for the suffix .

PUDDING CROFT (Deed , The same name occurs T at sﬁeld 1561 P ut cr o ft in a Rental of of , and possibly as in a Rental of that manor of 1402 . I think that it is P a din d en identical with g and other like names , men

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1 P o di n as n t io n ed under Lingﬁeld . The g is give by Kemble a s one of the mark or tribal names . h e RO DNEY MEAD recalls t Rodney , the Sign of a public

n w . . house , o vulgarized into the Coach and Horses “ R ” 2 Admiral odney , says Hotten , seems to have obtained a larger Sh are of popularity than Nelson

himsel f. ‘ ’ IIAY INO S CROFT (Deed , Halliwell gives shaving

to mean anything very small . E E A R E TON R ID O C (Deed , the ﬁeld , probably n ear the bridge , which crossed the stream ; ton , or ’

m . tim , originally eaning an inclosure Town is very com n m only used in old deeds for a village . The Tow Farm in Oxted is the farm close to the village ; Townland

Pond , the pond near the village ; similarly Town Pond ,

Godstone . POSTLAND S a li a s n , POSTENS , land ear Hookwood , but f part of a dif erent property , the bounds of which were

probably indicated by posts . Lim sﬁeld MILL MEADOW , a ﬁeld on p Park Farm , probably recalls one of the two water - mills mentioned in

- the Extent of 5 E dw. II . There are traces of a mill dam

here , but it has long been disused . ’ NUTTON R idlan d s CROFT , a ﬁeld on Farm , is pro ’ ’

n uote . bably from , notu , the nut ‘ ’ Bolth ur st NEWBERRY FIELD , Farm , is the niwe , or ‘ ’ ‘ ’ bear o - i n new ; bera , or , swine pasture ; some land

closed after the rest for this purpose . ’ ’ STONE S WOOD and STONE S FIELD , on the same farm , are t not the stony wood and ﬁeld , but ake their name from a n un owner or occupier of this name . Stone is not an in common name the district . TH E D o h r C u st . n FLE KS , g Farm Halliwell explai s this word to mean a plat of ground , a small inclosure . On l ’ Pi grim s Lodge Farm , in Titsey, is a ﬁeld called the Ple k Hog c s .

SANDERSTEAD FIELD . This may be , like the parish of

1 S u e A h . ll v l . v i o . 95 . rr y rc Co , p . 2 J . - . H tten H i t o S i n b a 5 ds . 7. C o , s ory f g o r , p SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 61

- that name mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Charters , l the ’ — ’ l - sandy p ace , or it is an owner s name Sanders stede .

Sanders is not an uncommon name in the district . l ’ TOTFIE LD . , Bril s Farm There are various places in ? - A . . x . T n S w e . ote b er h the Charters ith the prefi Tot g , g , To tb or ou h T otan cumb e Tot c omb g (Dorset) ; , (Berks) ; i m Totleah T o tle h . Totha (Essex) ; , g (Wilts) Places called 3 - -h - Tot hill , Toot ill , or Tooter hill , says Taylor , are very numerous , and may possibly have been seats of Celtic h r . Va c e worship Near y , in Cranleigh , is a wood called ’ Tothill Wood . Halliwell gives tot to mean a tuft or a P r om t ori un P ar ulor um bush . In the p v it is explained to mean land commanding a large prospect ; but in this instance it would not apply, as the land is flat and in the Weald . Totnes , co . Devon , stands on the slope of a h ill above the river Dart , and takes its name probably from the same root . D E N E i d OH R FIELD ( ) . This name occurs in that of a Tr ev er eux field at , Denshire Field , and on Stockenden Co wslan d Farm , and at Barrow Green , and on Farm in ’

D en sh er s . Oxted , as also in Corner , Caterham I find a William Drencher in a Court Roll of Limp sfi eld of 1582 ’ n a s so possibly it is an owner s ame , though , it occurs as the name of a single field on so many separate farms , it would seem more likely that it has some special meaning . ’ -a BATTLE CROFT , Monk s Farm . These names are gene rally considered to point to the scene of some encounter . Taylor 4 enumerates several which have been the fields of f m amous battles , but he remarks , at the same ti e , that local names often conserve t h e memory of forgotten contests of which no other memorial remains . This may be the case in the present instan ce . ’ i Beddlestead PIPER S CROFT ( d) . This name occurs on n Farm , Chelsham , Foyle Farm and Barrow Gree Farm , — ’ 8 . . Oxted Piper s Field . In the Extent of Hen VI the

1 7. em le C de i l ma t a t . 3 1 K b , o x D p o , C r 2 44 1069 115 1 685 23 460. Id a t . 7 , C r , , , , , 3 32 6. W d a n d P la e . or s c s , p 4 — 2 305 . Id . . 99 , pp SURR E Y E TYMO ID O IE S .

'’ a s P h er s t a n d n o f i er n ame o f l h o m yp occurs , the ame P p th e d r still rem a ins i n ist ict, so that possibly it is derived from that source . - R n T revereux D u WOOD , , recalls some event, ' th e rc mc m ln a n cc of which is now lost .

G U T en ch le s . u GR EAT N BUTTS , y The keeping p the ‘ butts ’ in a parish was the constant subject of inquiry

o fS a n d ers tea d 87 . a t Courts Leet . In a Court Roll , Eliz , is a fi eld c alled Le Butt ; a field in Titsey is men tioned ut roft a. R 1655 B c in Court oll of , called , and in Caterham is a field called Butts Field . “ ’ id Th e P r om tori um a s S t IrE S ( ) . p gives slype i s d identical with Slime , mud ; so this possibly the mud y n ground . Slipe has another meani g given by Halliwell , a n mely , to uncover the roof of a building ; in which case i t would be the place on which some old roofless build ing stood . INO LE Y — R INGLE Y , GREAT , FURTHE , and LITTLE LAND id W ’ ( ) . h ere ing forms the root of a word , it means ” 1 a e. . meadow , says Mr . Edmunds ; g Ingham , three 2 - - A . a S . pl ces , Ing grove In the Charters we In li am In eth or In th or e find g (Herts) , and g p , g p (Rut

a . n l l nd) It is somewhat of tautology to say I g ey . ‘ ’ ‘ ’ S YR RE AOR E S ib (Court Roll , Sibbe or , is 3 - - A . S . A . . S for goodwill , amity ; and in the Charters — w - are three places ith this derivative , Sibbe stapele W o rces Sibbeslea i b e S b es w . ( ) , , y (Hants) It may perhaps - n be explained to be land given as a peace offeri g , or in ” ’ token of goodwill . Mr . Edmunds treats it as a man s ’ n a Si b er t me , Sib , shortened from g , and cites Sibber t S ibbertwold Sibth r & o c . oft , , p , Il E LLING D E NE (i d ) is from the tribe or clan of the l l elli n a s g , whom we ﬁnd at Hellingly (Sussex) ; Helling bury (Essex) H ollinghill (No r th umb erlan d) a n d in 5 l l ellin h a. - A . g , place mentioned in the S . Charters .

1 f T a e ( H i t i N n a e P a 1. m o l e . 2 3 r c s y s ory s f c s, p 2 em le C dex Di lom a t a t 950 984. K b , o p , C r . , 3 I d . a 2 0 t. 9 1094 595 , C r , , . 4 Tra es i H i t i n N a me P la e 2 2 o 8 . c f s ory s f , p . ' c s

< le. c D i l m 09. a t a t . 8 o p o , C r

64 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

’ situation on the Pilgrim s Way , and possibly in former

- times it wa s a h alting place on the road . Neither this ’ n a me nor that of the Pilgrim s Way occurs in any of

the old Deeds relating to the parish ; the latter , in a 1667 E a s tﬁeld le E st Court Roll of , is called Lane ; and

22 . . ga te i n a Roll of Hen VII is perhaps the same , ’ ga te being Saxon for a road .

CIIE YE R ILLS FARM . In an old Deed , Firma de Chi

h i valer s 1402 . v aler ; C , Rental , The local pronunciation

of Ch iﬂlers re tains the meaning of the name , which has

been lost i n the modern Spelling . It is derived from h i al r C v e , a knight, and doubtless constituted one of the two knight ’ s fees of which the manor of Titsey con

sisted . There is a place of the same name in Wiltshire .

BOTLEY HILL FARM . So called from its Situation at the E L top of the hill of that name . In the xtent of imps B tt le h ﬁeld 5 E dw. . o e Manor , II , g is spoken of as a

an d Bo tle e . district, the name of Roger de y occurs In

8 . . that of Hen VI some land is mentioned , called Botel 1402 lond . In the Rental of Titsey, , three crofts and two ”

d e . gar ens , apud B ttele , are spoken of Upon the hill

Bo ttele h o f47 E dw. . of g occurs in a Deed III , relating to Oxted . From very early times , as appears by the Inquisition upon the death of Thomas de Ti ch eseye in 12 97 - , there was a capital messuage or manor house at Titsey an d as there is reason to suppose that t his was H close to the old church and at the foot of Botley ill , ’ - . b A S . o tl I derive it from the , a house , the hill of the

- mansion house . Botley is the name of a place in Hamp shire , not far from Southampton . Camden , l quoted by ” a l T ylor , mentions a hill in Chelsham called Bo t e or H Battle ill , with a Roman camp upon it ; but if ever there was a place of this name , it is not known now . Newbo ttle (Durham) and Bootle (Lancashire) are from ’ this word botel , a dwelling or mansion . ’ h KING S BANK , the name for a part of t is farm , on which ’ a a . n e. . is ﬁeld c lled King s Corner In ma y cases , g n e Kingsto , this pr ﬁx denotes a royal residence ; but

1 ’ G o u h a mden v l o . i . 1 03 . g s C , p . 2 W a n d Pla 0 e . 2 4 ords c s, p . R SUR EY ETYMOLOGIES . 65 there are numerous instances in which the word occurs in the name of a ﬁeld or wood , and possibly these were

- - . A S . in ancient times royal hunting grounds The . 1

. C n eswi c Ki n swi ck Charters are full of them y g , g C n i n esdun Kin eswudu (Sussex) ; y g , Kingsdown (Kent) ; g ,

Kingswood (Somerset) . In this neighbourhood we have ’ Bolth ur st m Lim sﬁeld King s Coppice , on Far , p ; Kings w a n wood , Sanderstead ; and Kings ood W rren , ear ’ Epsom ; King s Field and Shaw, on Upper Court Lodge n m a m Farm , Woldi gha ; and Kingsl nd Far , the name h Ki n sh old of a farm in Farley paris . g is the name of a part of Warlingham Common . m LONESOME LODGE , another name for this far , in allusion to its lonely situation , is of the same class as

& c . a Cold Harbour , Mount Misery , In ddition to 2 those already noticed , I have met with a place

a . called Hungry Bottom near the Oaks , B nstead A Li m s ﬁeld 1582 Court Roll of p , of , speaks of two acres ’

Both elle . of land near Heaven , called Land This is not the agreeable situation which might at ﬁrst be sup posed , but near Hungry Haven , the name of a ﬁeld on this farm . P ITGH FUNT , formerly a small farm , now some cottages 1402 and a homestead . It appears in the Rental of as Pi ch esfun te ; in a Court Roll of 2 0 Hen . VII . as

Pych ez foun t ; and in 1891 as Pych efro n te. The latter part of the word is from the fount , or spring , which 3 rises at the foot of the hill near it . Mr . E dmunds says P t ch Pitoh c ot that Pitch , y , means a small hill ; and cites ,

(Bucks) , and Pytchley (Northants) ; but this will not suit the situation here . I am inclined to think that it

Pi h telleS - is a contraction of g funt , the Spring by the ‘ ’ ‘ ’ 1402 a i h tell pightle , as in the Rental of p g at d 4 Pi ch esfun t e . is Spoken of This wor , before explained to mean a small meadow, is met with in a Court Roll

15 R i o . . of Titsey of II , where Robert Heyman is said

1 em le dex i l ma t a t . 18 1049 408. K b , Co D p o , C r , , 2 84 i . . . h ll v ol . v S u e A . rr y rc Co , p 3 T o H i t i n th e N am es o P la e . 2 66. r a ces f s ory f c s, p 4 81 i . l v o l . v . . u A h . l S rrey rc Co , p SURR E Y ETYMOLOGIES . to hold o n e P igh tell spoken of again in 1891 as le ’ ’ ll a n d i n 16 . l igh te ; a Deed of Eliz , relating to lands a rlsto n h a m f i h tell a t E , Suf olk , occurs one p g con ” - teyn i n ge III a creware and III rodes of londe . Half moon ’ l ightle , in Caterham , an existing name , is the small

- inclosure attached to the Half moon Inn . ’

BROO MLAND S . , the name of a farm Brom , the i n broom , is one of the commonest preﬁxes local names

- A . it occurs in fourteen different places in the . S Char

i n . ters , and many places besides , not mentioned there o n th e The soil a great part of farm is of a light , sandy

a . ch racter , in which the broom would flourish In a ’ 1402 le Bromfeld Rental of Titsey , , is , still the name of a th e R o u h eb r om field on this farm , and land called g n d Br mf h a o eldes awe. feld In a Court Roll of Titsey , ‘ ’ 15 . . le Ric II , a place is mentioned called Brome , which is probably the field in Chelsham , still so called .

4 . In a Court Roll of Hen . IV it is again mentioned as ’ Br mf ld h a w o e es e and Bromfelde. In the Extent Br adh am o 8 . . m of Manor , Hen VI , is a ﬁeld called Bro a ﬁ feld and on Kingsland F rm , in Farley , is a eld of the

a . s me name Broomhall Mead is a ﬁeld in Caterham . ’ W ALKLAND S W k li n - is a corruption of a e s land . Thomas W a kelin appears as owner in 1768.

BARTON SHAW , a small wood , now grubbed . This ‘ ’ a ppears as lo Berto n es in a Court Roll of Titsey of

8 . . c an Hen IV , and be identified as the same spot by the mention of the stream flowing by it . On Titsey ’ a m Court F rm is a field called Barton s Mead . In any ” parts of England , says , Taylor , l the rickyard is called ’ ‘ ‘ ’ the barton , that is , the inclosure for the bear , or cro p, that the land yields . There are , he says , some sixty villages in England of this name . P ITGH E R S P ITGH E R WOOD and S CROFT . The latter is 1616 Pitch r e st . written , in a Deed of , The latter part ’ ‘ ’ is the hurst , or wood ; the former pit , a pit . Pits hurst would easily be corrupted into Pitchers . S O UT II 2 6 GREEN (Court Roll , Suth Green (

1 W d a n d P la e 120 or s c s , p . . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 67

Hen . VIII) , locally pronounced S ow Green , and so 16 9 F written in a Court Roll of 7 . ormerly an open an d a th e green , so c lled from being at southern part of ‘ ’ . S ow the parish South is frequently pronounced , as

- in Sow wester for Southwester . The Crook , a name of part of this green , appears probably in a Court Roll of ’ 1 k k r 52 5 Cr o ed ak ar . Cr oo s a c e , as is the name of a i ’ ﬁeld on P lgrims Lodge Farm , and Coney Crook and

Crook Moon the names of two ﬁelds in Chelsham . LE MANSLAND L em an eslon d R L em an d es , ( ental , lond (Court Roll , has been already noticed under im 1 L p sﬁeld . I refer to it here because in the latter Court Roll it is mentioned in proximity to “ regia via Cr ok ed akar et inter les quatuor acras , which would

d . tend to strengthen the erivation suggested , viz , from ‘ ’ leman , a road . A 1402 RE T GH U R ST . G AT and LITTLE In the Rental of , Ti eresf ld l 15 . . e e an d and a Court Ro l of Ric II , occur g T eres m ede 1391 Ti eres yg ; and in a Court Roll of , g 2 6 . T e er s . londe gg , mentioned in a Court Roll of Hen

VIII . , is doubtless the same place . Walter Tagge 1891 appears in a Roll of as a tenant of the manor, and therefore I have no doubt that the modern Tagh ur st is ’ T a e s - a i . e. a corruption of T ggers , gg land , and very possibly Tiger was another spelling of the same sur name . ‘ ’ d SWARF MEAD is probably from Sweard , swar , or ? d r ton . Swar e grass , to which root Mr Edmunds refers

(Norfolk) , Swarraton (Hants) , and Swerford (Oxford) . ’ i E a l a s E . BREWHOUSE , BR W R S MEAD It is possible that formerly there was a brewhouse here ; it joins down ’ a li as to the stream so in Bletchingley , Brewers , Brew house Stree t . ’ ’

LI OLN . NO S MEAD . This is a possessor s name Robert

Lin c oln e 1 . . is presented at a court , held Hen IV , for erecting a gate between the domain of Limpsﬁeld an d m an n Titsey . A of the same ame appears in a Court

2 7 . . Roll , Hen VIII 1 A n te . 28. , p 2 T a e o H i t i n th e N a me o P la e . 291. r c s f s ory s f c s, p 68 SURR E Y ETYMOLOGIES .

Bro omlan ds MOUNT NODDY , the name of a ﬁeld on

a “l ot T ats ﬁeld , F rm , of one on Wood Farm , and also of d n o ne on Botley Hill Farm , calle , in the latter i stance , also Mount North , of which , perhaps , it is a corrup In tion . both these cases it is high ground facing the north . ’ W olmes croft 1402 WORM E R S CROFT . (Rental , )

4 . 1V m s r ft 2 2 . . 2 o r e c o (Court Roll , Hen VII and Eliz )

W ln s 1578. 2 9 . o e 1Vo r mer s cr oft id . ( , Hen VIII) ; , In

t Lim sfield 8 . . the Exten of p , Hen VI , is a field of the a s me name , and also one in Oxted , mentioned in a ‘ ’ - m S . W r th e A . Survey of 3 6 Eliz . I derive it from y , ’ worin , a worm , or any snake or reptile . Worms Heath , a common in Chelsham , is probably from the same 1 W orm es In A S . source . the Charters is a place called l h - éa wel . d n BURNT OAKS , a field a joini g Titsey Wood , and possibly at one time forming part of it , recalls some con

ﬂagration now forgotten . On the road between Sid

i i i o uth b . and Sid ury , co Devon , is a place of the same Br r d n r n . en de e e Bre d ede e name The and , mentioned

i n 1 R i . u t 5 o . a Court Roll of Titsey of II , are no do b the clearance made by burning . In Caterham is a ﬁeld

u . Li ch ﬁeld called B rntwood Burntwood is a parish in , E and Brentwood ( ssex) is possibly synonymous . Burnt ’ Stump is the name of a ﬁeld on S cott s Hall Farm ,

Chelsham . ’ ’ R BANISTE S PIEGE is an owner s name . Richard Ban

2 . ister is one of the jurors at a court held 6 Hen . VIII ’ ’ m DOD S MEAD , Dod s Lane , are the like . Willia Dodd n appears on the same roll , and the ame is found in this 1 parish in 72 7. ’

R . T ST ATTON S MEAD , the like here is a stone in the

1 . churchyard to one of that name , who died in 778 R B AMLEY WOLF , Great and Little , the names of two a d me dows , and a small Shaw , may possibly ate from the time when wolves infested the large woods in the district . It seems difﬁcult in any other way to account for the

1 emble dex i l ma t 40 a t . 6 K , Co D p o , C r . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 69

word . The wolf has left his name in numerous places ; 1V lfri e. . o d e W ulfh ill &c . g , g (Somerset) , (Wilts) , P OP - GUN FIELD and SHAW recall , perhaps , the bar

- barous times , not long ago , when man traps and Spring guns were set for trespassers . F LAx MEAD records , I suppose , the cultivation of ﬂax , which was formerly , and still continues to be , grown in l n . Lin leah parts of E g and Leo derives such places as , ’ 1 Li n cumb ﬂ ax . , Linland , Lintun , from lin , D UTNALLS , the name of a Shaw in the park , now ’ grubbed , is probably an owner s name , though the name D arkn ll does not appear . o was the name of a rector 17 of Titsey in the th century, and possibly it may be for r D ur tn ll D a k nolls . a is a name in the neighbourhood . ’ C CHUR H WOOD , the name of a wood on Pilgrim s

Lodge Farm . It is not in proximity to the present , nor was it n ear the ancient church ; neither is there any reason for supposing that it was ever church property .

The legend in the parish , continued to the present time , is that an attempt was made to build a church at this t place , but that what was buil by day was pulled down ? by the evil spirits at night This was told me by an old inhabitant of the place , who stated that his father had come across foundations in ploughing in the ﬁeld u adjoining . The tr th of this latter assertion I have not been able to verify ; but it is difﬁcult to account for the name unless we believe so much of the legend as would imply either an existi ng or contemplated church at this d a spot . The Saxon Church mentioned in Domes y Book may have been here , or a church may have been com m en ced . at this place , and for some reason abandoned

E . HORSLEY M AD , so called from the horse In this

ﬁeld there is a stone just Showing above the ground , which a former tenant of the land endeavoured to move .

1 Th e prox i mi ty of th is ﬁ eld t o th e R oman vi lla migh t suggest a

lau i le de i ati n m Flaccus ua i te a Flacci . p s b r v o fro , q s rr 2 t i den ti al le en d i s i e 4th . n alm In N tes a nd ue S . x i i 2 45 a o Q r s, , os c g ’ M atth ew h u h W al all Simi la t adi ti n ex i t a s elat ed St . . r of s C rc , s r r o s s w h u h Bu t o W i n wi h u h L an a h i e a n d Li ttle Ma l . ck C rc , c s r , r o C rc , cks ’ 7 l . V0 te a nd ue i e v o . an d 4th S . x ii . s Q r s, v '‘ 70 S URR E Y E I YMO LOGIE S .

Ile employed eight horses to no purpose , and desisted from t h e a ttem pt . It is probable that this stone is a ’ ‘ - t . S a xon niere , or boundary stone O her instances of H o rs cro ft s Lim s field t h e prefix horse are , p (Extent , H o r s croft T at sfield 5 E d w. II . and Henry , ta 1102 an d (Ren l , Great and Little Horsley in u H or s eleah Down , Chelsham ; Horsley , S rrey ; and , H r s leah H orsleah d en n o w l l n rsle . o y , Hants and are ‘ - h . ins tances of the same name from t e A . S Charters . ’ G E W AR P a li a s T H E W AMPS R EN , , a field on Pilgrim s

d a . Lo ge F rm , for which I can suggest no derivation n Tat sﬁeld l O Red House Farm , in , are two ﬁelds ca led

Great a n d Little W ampy Isles . ’ LE IGu s . CROFT , from a former owner William Leigh “ l a ppe a rs on the Court Rolls as a tenant . Wi liam 16 ” aun tien t . 2 7 Lei gh , an housekeeper , buried Oct

(Titsey Par . Register) . ’ ’ U Culfre C LVER S FIELD (Court Roll , , or ‘ ’ f - - c ulu re 11. S . , is for a dove , and the wood pigeon , 2 a l . s ys Halliwell , is sti l called a culver in Devonshire

- A . ulfr an m r S . C e e In the Charters is a place written , n o w Culv erm er e D o h ur st and on g Farm , Lim ﬁ l s e d . p , are two ﬁelds called Great and Little Culvers VARNAGE 1697 Farn eh e e GREAT and LITTLE (Deed , ) gg The early spelling explains the word as meaning ’ ’ the fearn , hege , or hedge or inclosure , where the fern

o . gr w In an old deed the word is corrupted into Barni sh . ’ In 1402 r f the Rental of is a ﬁeld called le Fern ec o t . n WHITE DEAN (Re tal , the white valley, from ’ th e a h er ll m chalky n ture of the soil . On C ev e s Far is a al ﬁeld c led White Bottom , and on the Lower Court d Lo ge Farm , Woldingham , one called White Banks ; as ’ a . t n lso on Ledger s Farm , Chelsham Whi e Leaf is a ame i W l n a . f o W arlin h am 2 0 . ar ingh m In a Court Roll g , Eliz , a an d 32 n messuage acres of la d are mentioned , called ’ h itm lke W y and Egge . So the White Lane is the lane u l leading p the Cha k Hill in Titsey . P H I LIPSTIIO RN Ph ili sh eld 5 1 . . , pp (Court Roll , Ric II ) 1 m l ut / a; i l ma , D t a t . 3 17 958 1 0 8 8 96 1235 . Ke b eC c p o , C r , , , , 2 D i et A . / rc/m i c a n d P vi n i a l W q d i n v e . ro c or s, rbo

'‘ R E l YMO LOGIE S . 72. SUR EY

C O LD l IAR UU U R . I append the height of various Cold d n H a rbours in this and the a joini g counties , taken 1 fro m t h e l a st Ordnance Survey , as tending to conﬁrm th e supposi tion that they are generally , though not uni vers a ll a . y , so c lled from their high and exposed situation - f 8473 t . Cold Harbour , Titsey , height above sea level

Id . , Croydon ,

7 [d . 193 4 . Ia. 0 b 42 . 0 . M . 1 , Cam erwell , , Chobham , ,

5 . d . 74 LL 172 7. I ra 199. C nleigh , , Ewell , , Dorking , — Ia 100 . . M . 28. M . , Kingston , , Wisley , Surrey , Iden ,

— 2 4 . Ia. 3 300. M . 3 7. Sussex , , Penshurst , , Brenchley ,

38. 229. 2 M . d 24 . Tonbri ge , , Bridge , Ditton , Isle

200. 15 . H O 104. w 16. O of Grain , , I ade , Lamberhurst , — 00 W e 360. . 20 6 . a 0. M idstone , Stansted , y , Kent r m Old The following are names f o the Court Rolls , a nd r 1402 f om a Rental of , which are no longer in us e

D E T IOH E SE Y BRUERE (Court Roll , Titsey Heath

- bruere is th e Old Norman French for heath . This name n o w is changed into Titsey Bushes , but is no longer common land . B S OL W E S BR KE Y O O 2 6 . (Court Roll , Hen the name of the stream at the point where the parishes of Limps l fi e d and Titsey meet . I can give no explanation of the word . B ROCH E FYLD 2 9 (Court Roll , Hen . VIII . ) is another ’ instance of the word bracha, a fallow, noticed before 2 . Ta tsfield 1561 under Horne In a Rental of , , two fields Br each elon d are mentioned , called Great and Little , and i n Chelsham are fields called Breach Crook and Lower and Middle Breach . Le Broach occurs in a Court Roll 42 of Chelsham , Eliz . , and the Breeches Field is the D o h ur t Lim s sfi eld . name of a field on g Farm , p

Th e e d eta il h av e een u ni h m s s b f r s ed e by th e ki ndness of Col. a e n B . . to h m I a m i n debted u l i n m i th ma n C mro , C , w o for s pp y g e w y a d i t i n t o m li t ld H a I n d o s y s of Co rbours . a ddi ti o n t o th ese i s a Cold H a u L an e leadi n m Be el G een t o M l P a en t I n t ea . rbo r , g fro ss s r o r rk, K h a e la tel met wi th a ld H a F a u m at N ewt n S t e . v y Co rbo r r o . Cyr s, co D e n a n , d o ne a t H o llo wco mbe M n ea h ulmlei h i n th e ame vo oor, r C g , s un t . Th e e i s a l a Co ld H a u n ea G la t n u co y r so rbo r r s o b ry . 7 S u e A TC/L. ll v l . o . v i . a t i . 8 rr y Co , p r . p . H 3. SURREY ETY MOLOGIES .

B U R LE SD OUNE u 15 R i o . . (Co rt Roll , II , and Rental , Lim ﬁ ld s e 8 . . . in the Extent of p , Hen VI , Berle In Chel m 1 sha is a wood called Burley Grove . Bosworth gives ‘ ’ ‘ ’ - A . S . byrl , or burl , as for a butler or steward ; but t this derivation does not seem probable . I hink it not Biri elles impossible that it is a contraction of Dun , the u - b r l . e e hill of the b rial place This word y is , as pointed “ ” P arv ulorum an out in the Promptorium , in its more cient sense , the place , and not the act of burial ; it often W i liﬁi t occurs in the c e version of the Bible in this sense . w w If there were any kno n barro s on these hills , that n fact would greatly strengthe this supposition , but in 1402 Burles do un e the Rental of , in close contiguity with , ‘ ’ a place is mentioned , quondam Campes , and in the 1577 Survey of Oxted , of , the boundary is said to run

d . to the lan s of Mr Udall , called Campis this place being on the adjoining hills in the parish of W oldingham . On ’ fib ulae the Upper Court Lodge Farm there , two , arrow d heads , and celts have been foun , clearly indicating O f i some barrow there , the existence wh ch is confirmed th e w by the names of two fields , Great and Little Barro

‘ Leys . 1402 Bern eh a h BERNE (Rental , ) g (Extent of Limps ﬁ ld e 8 . . , Hen VI ) John atte Berne, Stephen atte 3 - i A . S . 15 R o . Berne (Court Roll , In the Charters Bern ewell are places called Berne and , now Barnwell ’ ’ ‘ ’ - - r i A . S . t . n n s S A dr ews . ae , Northants Berne , bere , for ‘ ’ ‘ ’

i . e. aer n a barn , the , or place of the bere or corn , from which root Mr . Salmon derives the name of Barnes .

Barn Field is a most common name . The greater part of this hill land seems to have been down . In the Rental of

19 . . Oxted , Eliz , Mr Udal is charged for his hilly and w do ne land , and in the early Court Rolls of Titsey we

L on ed o wn e L t elldown e Lusteddo wn e & c . meet with g , y , , on Upper Court Lodge Farm , Woldingham , Great and

Little Down , Great and Little Farthing Down .

1 An l - S a n i i n e et . g o xo D , v rbo 2 ’ 20 E n a v e i n M i H o S ur e v ol. 11. . 4 . nn n a n d B a i t. gr d a g r y s s f r y, p l e a 416. S e so p . 3 em l e i l 112 984. d ex ma t a t . 7 K b , Co D p o , C r , '‘ M LOGIE S . 7-1 SURREY E I Y O

O an d formerly a opyhold , constantly ’ mention ed i n the Court Rolls , is a possessor s name . Richard C a rpenter appears as a tenant in the Rental of

1402 .

PS HO Cla sh o C LA , a meadow called p (Court Roll , 4 1 02 . 15 R io . mentioned also in the Rental of I

c a n suggest no derivation for it .

FI LD 35 . h C AVE R S E (Court Roll , Hen Boswort

expl ains Ca fer tun a s an inclosure before a house . Mr . ' ‘ ’ afr Edmunds makes Caver synonymous with g , a

a t an d &c . go , cites Caversham , Kent , Caversham is also the n a me of a place near Reading . O I' E AW E C P D H (Rental , the haugh or high ground at the cop or cap , the summit of the hill . In Co en dr ee Chelsham is a ﬁeld called pp (Court Roll , Co th orn w p is a place belo Horne , and the Hundred CO th or n e of p is that which includes Banstead , Epsom , & 2 c . Manning says of the hundred , that it received i t s name probably from some thorn , remarkable for the size of its head , or its situation on some considerable i n eminence , both which are expressed the Saxon word ’ ‘ ’ L - cop or cope . e Hawe is t h e name O f a ﬁeld in

Titsey , mentioned in this Rental and in a Court Roll of

1402 .

E R LS eAR D YN LE (Rental , The De Clares ,

Earls of Gloucester, were Lords of the Manor at this t 24 . E dw. I . 12 96 ime In , , it was found that Earl Ti ch ese Gilbert died seized of a manor in y, a capital m ’ a & c . essu ge , gardens , This doubtless was the gar d en attached to the chief house .

RE NCH E VILE S i d - F ( ) , apparently a Norman French n ame , but its origin or meaning is not clear . In War lin h am 1 a g is a place called Frenches (Court Roll , M ry) , a n d Mor ev iles the termination occurs in , a place men tion ed i n fi 156 . the Rental of Tats eld , 1 l l YCKE LINGH OLE 6 . H YKKE R O (Court Roll , Hen SC FT a l . 2 1 . H i ( , Hen The celin gas is one O f the tribal

1 T a e o H i to i n th N a me f e o P la e 186. r c s s ry s f c s, 9 H i ' t. o b ur r e v o l i i 58 s f y , . . p . 0. E 'l‘ YMOL GIE SURREY O S . 75

1 n m a es given by Kemble . Hickling is a place in Norfolk 2 ’ 3 - n A . . mentio ed in the S Charters . Mr . Edmunds deri ’ len lan d vation from Hicks , a personal name , and , corn land , seems very improbable . 15 R i OYNOTOR E SLAND o . J (Court Roll , land charged ’ with a widow s portion , or assigned to her in jointure . In 13 14 we ﬁnd that ten m ar es were paid out of the

O f A . manor of Titsey and that shmere , co Dorset , to Bibli s s e a d e Valoi n es i n , l te wife of Hamo , for her thirds 4 the same . This may possibly have been the very land so charged . LA C 15 . LYN HE (Court Roll , Rich . II , and Rental ,

In Chelsham are two ﬁelds , called Linch and

Linch Bottom . Halliwell explains the word , in Kentish A dialect , to mean balk of land , any bank or boundary li n h r c e . for the division of land . Also called and linchet u I have never heard the word sed in this district .

LYTY LW OW E S 20 . (Court Roll , Hen a croft called L t l wo wes . W o we y y is given by Halliwell , and also in the ” - A . S . . Promptorium , as for a wall The former quotes 9 2 4. from Gower, MS . Bodleian

Th at th er was n oth i ng h em bit ween e But wo wt o wo wa n d wal t o wa

ME R E L N n es cr oft 15 R i Mer o . W YN S O D w . , y (Court Roll , II Mer ewin and Rental , From or Mervyn , the name of some owner . M R N E MOR YNGE SOR OETE S 4 O Y e s . and (Court Roll , Hen ’

20 . . IV . and Hen are possessors names William f 1402 Moryn g appears in the Rental O . MAR NE SLOND h (Court Roll , Marn is anot er ’ - m m A . S . form of morn , , orning ; but its eaning in con n ecti on with land it is difﬁcult to see . N o m an slan d A 15 . NOL ND (Court Roll , Ric (Court I N m n h k 2 7 . o a s o e 2 0 . . Roll , Hen VII and Hen VII ) ;

1 52 l i . 4 . a x n i n E n la n d v o . . S o s g , p 2 9 ex i l ma t a t . 71. Cod D p o , C r 3 2 26 T a e o H i t . r c s f s ory , p 4 w I N O . I . 68. E h ea t 8 E d . sc , , 76 SURR E Y ETYMOLOGIES .

. (Court Roll , This name has been noticed before Q r E d mun d s , M . explains it to mean a settlement or clea rance o n a waste , and refers to the name in Berk shire and other co unties . I incline to the Opinion , before

pressed , that it is a piece of debatable ground , not ascertained to belong to one parish or another . In this

ﬁeld . c a se it was land on the border of Limps On the

Lower Court Lodge Farm , Woldingham , are two ﬁelds , 20- N called Nomans and acre omans , and in Warlingham

- one c alled Nomans bush . ’ 1623 PRIOR S CROFT (Court Roll , and There wa s n o land in this parish which belonged to any priory , a n d I cannot explain how this ﬁeld came to have the n ame . POTE HYNSOR OFT 1402 P (Rental , ) i R E RD H U LL ( d . )

15 . S OU LE ME AD E S O ULE OR OE TE . , (Court Roll , Ric IL) 3 Mr . Edmunds would derive places with this preﬁx from ‘ ’ salh , a willow, and cites Soulbury (Bucks) , Souldern ‘ subtu (Oxford) . These two ﬁelds are described as s ’ m a b montem , under the hill , and y have een near the brook .

S H ILOR OE T 2 2 . . (Court Roll , Hen VII ) is a contraction , O f S h ulle escr o ft I believe , y , which appears in the Rental 1402 ’ n . of , and is a possessor s ame T R E NOH E MLE Z 15 . P (Court Roll , Ric . II ) W IPUTTE SFE LD E 15 l (Court Roll , Ric . II . , and Renta ,

VV IOH E R E S 15 R i . P o . LE (Court Roll , II ) W H YP E LLE SD E N 0 2 . (Court Roll , Hen Possibly ” “ W iﬁesden for , on which Mr . Lower remarks : We cannot agree with Dr . Leo in assigning the numerous b ‘ wiﬁ ’ names in the charters , eginning with , to the ran arius weevil (curculio g ) of our barns . It is doubtless ” the name of an early proprietor . Y E R LE SH AW E 20 “ 1 h . aw (Court Roll , Hen y

1 S u e A h . ll v ol vi 8 . . 2 rr y rc Co , p . . 2 T a es H is t. i n th e N a me o P la e 257. r c of s f c s , 3 Id 2 . 86. , p 4 n tr ibuti n to Li t t e a u e 32 . Co o s r r , p . 77 SURR EY E TYMOLOGTE S .

u erl apud Y erlesh awe. I can ﬁnd no s ch word as y it l ’ ‘ y ’ is possib y the Earl s Hawe , the being an inter p olati on .

T A T S F I E L D .

u T at elefelle TAT SFIELD . Domesday S rvey , ; Deed , T tti sfeild 1367 T a tlesfelde Tatlefeld e 5 i . a , , ; Rental , El z , ; l dm un d s Tat sﬁeld ﬁ l . E 1639 Tat s e d . , Mr cites , amongst ’ t eo th en other places , which he says are derived from , a

i . e. . tenth or tithing , a group of ten farms I am not at all disposed to adopt this derivation , because , in the

ﬁrst place , I doubt whether it would be an accurate description of all or any of the places he enumerates , and , in the second place , no one parish more than another would constitute a tithing . A tithing was a ll d subdivision of a hundred , consisting origina y , no oubt , l f t - of ten fami ies , with an o ﬁcer or ithing man for each a tithing , and subsequently representing a territori l k division . Loo ing at the fact that the Church is placed

- ul on the crest of the hill , that the old Manor house , p led down about the end of the last century , and the Rectory , were all grouped together near the s a me Spot that the d early settlement was evi ently on the hill , and that this i h ll , commanding a most extensive view over the sur o n - rounding country every Side , is pre eminently a tote h - — I ylle , or look out place , suggest as the derivation ‘ ’ l - w To teh yl e felde . I am a are that the ﬁrst vowel is ’ ‘ a 0 alw ys a , not ; but the transcriber of Domesday might easily have altered To th ill felde into Tat elefelle ; at W b . . a any rate , the change is not impossi le Mr Albert y has a long and interesting note on the word T ot eh ylle i n ” ’ - t ti an A . S . o P r ul or um . the Promptorium a v The , to k stand up li e a horn , is said to be the root of the word ’ Old i . to tote , in Engl sh , signifying to look out I have ’ T otﬁ eld noticed the word under , on Brill s Farm , in

Li m ﬁ eld . p s No other interpretation suggests itself,

1 2 94. T a e o H i t . r c s f s ory, p 78 SURREY

’ unless t o cl a ss it with th e numerous possessors n ames ; b ut besides T a tele not having the a ppearance of a S axon ’ a a i . e. o wner s n me , the e rliest form of the word , in ’

d a r . Domes y Su vey , has no possessive s

W E S TMo R E GREEN , a Common . It is probably the

- pl a ce mentioned i n two of the A . S . Chartersl as West ’ a r c a s Bi lest de m e , it occurs in close proximity to pp y ,

B ddles ted . s . e i . , a place not far distant It lies very t n ear the boundary of Ken and Surrey , and , assuming th at wh at is now cultivated land was formerly part of th d - e waste , it would enote the boundary mark at the

western extremity of Kent , just as Westerham , the

a d . joining parish , is the westernmost village CLAO R E T C u n - , CLA KET GREEN , a corr ptio of Clay gate or

- d the Cl ay road . An old line of road runs in the irection

a - of Westerh m , well nigh impassable in winter from the 1641 clayey nature of the soil . In a Court Roll of it is Cle ate 1402 called yg , and in the Rental of , among the a ten nts of the adjoining manor of Titsey , appears Gilbert 2 - t A . S . a atte Cleyga e. In the Charters is a pl ce called Cle at Cla et Clei at yg , gg (Wilts) , and g , not identiﬁed , l te . C e a somewhere , probably , in E ssex yg , written in i t Cla a e i n . Domesday Survey g , is a manor Thames Ditton S ALOOTTS a li a s CALOOTTS , , once (says Manning) a a a Cole at es c pit l mansion , has now been corrupted into g ,

or Cold Court . The ﬁrst name is probably from Sele O f n s n o court , the court the mansion ; the seco d is y n m ous t y with its present name of Cold Cour , an appellation abundantly justiﬁed by its situation . It ole t 1 appears as C ga es in 561. D In 1402 GOD ARDS (Rental , the Rental of , f “alter Godard appears as tenant O f a messuage and ’ 24 Nobr i h te s m h acres , called g tene ent and this was t e a ncient name of this farm . John Godard is also men ti on ed i n the same Rental . n TATSFIELD PARK , the ame of a farm , and also of a w d 1402 oo , occurs in the Rental of , where Thomas “ ” C a l f l herd is ch rged pro pastura parci de Ta tte es e d e.

1 em le de 65 a t . 287 7. K b , Co x, C r , 9 Id 460 82 4 , , .

80 SU R REY E TYMOLOGIES .

s ays a hedge o r co ppice . The fels are understood m v all es m the ountains , y , and pastures with co e ; the ” fr vth es betoken the springs and c o ppy s es . (George ‘ I ' i b r v ille Bo okes Ven eri e . 114 l n e , The of , p

D rayton de ﬁnes it as a high wood . Some writers ex l in it a d - p a to me n all he ge wood except thorns , a sense i n i t still used the provinces , and occurs in the local — glossaries with the following meanings z Unused pasture land ; a ﬁeld taken fro m a wood ; young underwood ;

o . brushwood . Many w ods in Kent are still called Friths F B tr In one of the charters l is a place called e es aet . ‘ ’ F rith or writh is given in a Vocabulary of Provincial ’ “lords i n Devonsh ire as meaning underwood .

B . OWTIE , the name of a wood It has been noticed 2 under Bletchingley . I mention it again to instance a

ﬁeld of the same name in Caterham . R o ugh h eath is a m 1561 na e occurring in the Rental of , as also a ﬁeld

called R owﬁeld . CUE ITTS a li a s a li a s , CUPIDS , KIPPERS COPSE , CUPID b ’ MEAD . Possi ly an owner s name , though no name of th the kind appears in any of e early Deeds . Crun d l G E . a es 1402 Gr un dalls RUND L (Rental , )

A - This word occurs in thirteen of the . S . Charters . 3 “ Kemble says : This obscure word seem s to denote a sort of watercourse , a meadow through which a stream ” “ a A ﬁ ows . Leo s ys crun del or crun dwel is a spring or well , with its cistern , trough , or reservoir , to receive ”

. an d the water There are two ﬁelds , called the East

West Well Field , which in all probability mark the site 6 Crun d l of the old name of we .

DORE FIELD . Upper and Lower Dore Field ; Dore “fo o d , on Lusted Farm , mentioned in the Rental of

1402 D ar efeild A - S . ; (Rental , From the .

1 em le dex a t . 1368. K b , Co , C r 2 S u e A h ll v ol . . Vi . 85 rr y rc Co , p . . 3 x l . i i i . e v o . 2 1. Cod , p 4 An l -S a x n N a me 9 o . 5 . g o s , p 5 “ In Mem i al a ui et Li e v l i o . . . 2 85 H a Q Mr . e or s of f , p , r speaks Of ’ A nna um le as o n e th s Cr b of e a n ci ent boun d a ri es of A lton p a ri sh ” um le h e a bei n a m ll & t Cr b , s ys, g s a ro und pool for beasts to drin k O ” Th ’ . e w d crun del i s lea l i n ten ded h of or c r y ere. R E T M L l SUR EY Y O O G E S .

’ 1 a s dor , which , Kemble explains , is not a door , but a ga te . B R YE R E T m i O O . n a e s YSTED LANE , RYLANDS , This applied to the road lea ding from Westerham over the ridge of ‘ ’ the hill . I derive it , as Reigate , from rige , a ridge ; B the ysted being the homestead on the hill , and Rylands ,

th t o f . a name still in use , is a a ﬁeld adjoining it Rye R efeild e 1561 croft and y , in the Rental of , may be from ’

r e . y , the corn The latter was in the lower part of the l parish . Litt e and Lower Rickets Hill on Cold Court ‘ ’ m h r c Farm are connected with the sa e word y g , or Tat sﬁ eld hric , a ridge, and possibly Rag Hill , on Park

Farm . ’ POULTER S FIELD , GREAT and LITTLE , on Cold Court

Farm . Poulter is a poulterer . This form of the word , ’ u H oll b an d s D i c ti on ai re says Halliwell , occ rs in y , 1 593 . The rearing of poultry is attested by the nume r rous places into which the prefix cock and hen ente . C on e a O NONSU H FIELD , of the n mes of good men , in Bar eb arn i n contradistinction to such names as Bottom , ’ H efn le s . o Warlingham ag print of Nonsuch Palace , h 1582 n us uam near C eam , dated , defines it as Hoc est , q n uch fi eld - simile . No s is a name in the parish of Kird

d . for , Sussex

CH U R OH . LITTLE BRAKE , a ﬁeld on Lusted Farm

Kennett , MS . Lansdowne , deﬁnes brake as a small plat ’ or parcel of bushes growin g by themselves . In P almer s S i n etum Devonshire Glossary it is explained as p , a ” bottom overgrown with thick tangled brushwood . A place near Broadway, co . Worcester , ﬁlled with haw thorn bushes and short underwood , is still called the 2 Brakes . Why called Church Brake I cannot say , as it is h e s eb r ake not anywhere near the church . C s is the name

1561. of a ﬁeld , from the Rental of ’ H E Y s n HEYS , UPPER , the ame of a farm , is from haga , a hedge or inclosure Simon atte H a ech e occurs in f 2 ” 3 th O 140 . e Rental A haigh , or hay , says Taylor ,

1 l i ii a t x x iii . ex v o . . Cod , p r 2 W s e A h a Pr vi n i a l d i n . H a lli well Di t . c i a n d , c f rc c o c or , v rbo 3 ' P 122 . W ds a n d la es . or c , p G 82 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

a is a place surrounded by a hedge , and ppears to have been usually a n inclosure for the p urposes of the chase .

We ﬁnd it in Haye Park , at Knaresborough , and Horse h a a . , y , ne r Colebrook Dale Hayes , near Bromley in

. Kent , is probably from the same root W Ta tsfi eld BARRO S LAND , a field on Court , on the side hill ; whether so called originally from any barrow cannot now be ascertained . On Chelsham Court Farm is a field called Barrows Blocks . These names may be ‘ ’ ‘ r from bea o or beru , the land producing mast for swine . AL LENSE IE LD (Red - house Farm) occurs in the Rental of

140 Ala n eslo n d . 2 as y It may be from Alan Lambard , 1367 whom we ﬁnd as a trustee of the manor in , and L ambardescr ofte who has left his name in , mentioned in 1 th e Rentals of 1402 and 156 . Th e following names are from the Rentals of 1402 1561 and , and from Court Rolls d e t n COD E OR OE T Conf. Co s o e. ’ C LAPE IE LD i d GROVE ( ) , possibly an owner s name , “ Clappa , as in Clapham , Surrey , and Beds . Firma de l ” 0 l h Cla efe des 14 2 . . C a s 1 o 402 . pp , Rental , Conf p , Titsey , CAPLINS H ARTH or HEATH probably from Capel ’ lanus , a word used formerly , not in the restricted sense b ut now applied to chaplain , for the person who served a church . D R APE R ESOR OE T D R APE R SCR OFT a pos es sor s s name . D OU SE OR OFT i d P ( . ) ‘ ’ H E VE D LOND S i d - A . . h f S ea od d . ( ) , , a hea Heved n lond is give by Halliwell from the Arundel MS . as a

- headland . The name is a very common ﬁeld name : in

Titsey we find Upper and Lower Headlands Nick . H ONGGYNeE EE LD E 1402 1561 (Rental , and ) is the field on the slope or hanging of the hill . The Hanging Woods and Hangers are constantly met with in the hill district . H AGGE SCR OFTE H AeeE R SOR OETE (1561) P H AME R E SH AW E i - d . A . S . ( ) Hamer is for a hammer , but it is difficult to attach any meaning to it in con 83 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

n ecti on wi th the name of a place . Haw appears in a l H a wd en e ﬁeld cal ed (Rental , KY SE TTE SLOND KIS SE TE SME AD and GROVE (1561) P LITHING A croft O fland called Lithing P S W ONE SOR OE TE John , Henry , and Thomas 0 Swone appear as tenants in the Rental of 14 2 . S TAAR LE STE ME NT 1402 S TAR E LE STE NE E E NT ( ) , Stare

P r m . is given by Halliwell and in the o p Par v . as sedge

d - grass . This may , therefore , mean the se ge grass meadow . The word is not used in this sense in the dis t ri ct at the present time . W OD E W E D E E LE W ID OW D E LE W o d ewe d is given by Halli well as an old form of the word wi ow . ’ ﬁ r th e a . Geo e This , therefore , is Widow D le s Land y Dale appears in the Rent al of Ti tsey of 1402 as a tenant of land called D a aleslon d .

F A R L E Y .

t 871 889 FARLEY . Char er of Duke Alfred , , Fearn 1 Ferle a 12 79 lege ; Domesday Survey , g ; Deed , , Farne

- - legh . It is the Fearn lea or Ferny lea . Ferny Field is a the name of a ﬁeld in the parish . There are no less th n — - l ah 1n A . S . ar n e eight places in the Charters called F ,

Dorset , Hants , Kent , Surrey , Somerset , Staffordshire ,

Worcestershire , and one not identiﬁed besides numerous other places which have the same preﬁx . 2 Cli es CLIPPERS FIELD . Mr . E dmunds gives pp and Clips ’

Cli er sb . as an owner s name , and cites pp y and Clipston

Clipper , says Halliwell , is a north country word for a

- sheep shearer .

FLOOD FIELD , FLOOD SHAW . This must record some sudden ﬂooding by a heavy storm , for Farley being a

a . parish on the hill , there is no river or stre m H ATCH INGTON H at ch i n t on ; BOTTOM , g Shaw , on Adding

a a . ton Lodge Farm . This I s apparently trib l name

1 1 . d ex m a t . 3 7 em le D i b a t. K b , Co p , C r 2 T a e o H i t i n th e N a me o P la e . 189 r c s f s ory s f c s, p G 2 O O 8 1 SURREY ETY M L O IE S .

1 H aeci n a s Kemble gives the g , whom we ﬁnd at Hack

i n to n . g , in Kent ’ U IVOO D fréo F R E EAN is , I think , from the Saxon , free ,

th e free l aud . m a ’ t H AG CROFT is probably fro h ga , a hedge , the crof O n ar e d inclosed by a hedge . the Manor Farm ﬁel s called ’ H a ler s m a - Lower and Upper g , possibly fro h ga lea , the me a dowinclosed by a hedge . T n “ITTEY CLOSE . There are two ﬁelds of this ame , one n o Little Farleigh Farm , the other on the Manor Farm ; ’

A S . e it is from the w et , wet ; hence Witley , in Surrey , 2 a n d other places of the same name . ’ ‘ ’ LITTLE NOOK SHAW . Nok , or noke , is a nook or ’ u corner . It is also sed for oak , as in the lines quoted by Halliwell

Th e ma n o m an t n ds h s t e r y s o y s rok ,

Th ogh h e were a s stronge a s an n oke.

M a n ta b. S . C

O ckh olt Knockholt , otherwise written , is probably from one of these two roots .

FARLEY PARK , now a wood , is another instance of the p ark which formerly existed in almost every manor . 3 E I . 1 9 n 7 dw. 2 7 Ma ning tells us that in , , the master and scholars of Merton claimed a park in Farn elegh from the Conquest , and in a note he adds , this must mean that an it was ancient park , for the master and scholars had ” been possessed of it but a few years . ’ 4 A - f . H a . S . oc HAWK S HILL In the Charters is a place , h l H a wkh ill y , now (Somerset) , and no less than twenty

six places occur with the same preﬁx . South Hawke Lane

occurs in Woldingham . The Domesday Survey of Limps ’ ﬁeld mentions three hawks nests in the wood . IVY N - DEA is probably a corruption of Iwes dean , the Y ew- tree Dean . There are numerous ﬁelds called Yew

tree Field , and lines of these trees in the hedgerows are

1 S a n i n E n l v l n d o . i . 4 a . 65 . xo s g , p 2 Mr E dmun d T . a e o H i t 3 15 m . de i v e th e e la e s ( r c s f s ory , p ) r s s p c s fro ’ h wi t wh i te a d e i a ti n h i h eem i m l , , r v o w c s s probab e. ’1 H is t. u v S l . I o e o I . . 4 12 . f rr y , p 4 Kem le d a t . 4 ex 61. b , Co , C r 85 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

V . ery common , planted possibly to supply wood for bows

- Yew tree Field is a ﬁeld in the parish of Caterham .

GOS S H AW . Goss , the common pronunciation of gorse , or furze , so given by Halliwell . This word enters into

- the names of a good many fields . On Flint house Farm , 1649 Oxted , two fields are mentioned in a deed of called ’ h i r l t Al E r t o s . Co e a e s Gorse ley and g On g Farm , Tats field G or se , is a field called Great y Down , and on God ’ Gor s e dard s Farm , in the same parish , one called y ’ Down . Tinker s Goss is a field in Caterham , and also

Shirley Goss .

For W E B FIELD and H E MPE R S I can give no explanation .

W O L D I N G H A M . l WOLDINGHAM . One of the sma lest parishes in 667 Surrey , consisting of but acres , not mentioned , I 1 d W allin h a m think , in Domes ay ; for g , which Manning n considers to be this place , I take to be Warli gham , lli n h m W oldi n locally pronounced W a g a at this day . g or W ealdi n a s ham is the home settlement of the g , or ’ dwellers on the wold , who are given by Kemble , in his list of the Mark names , and whom we ﬁnd again at W ldin ﬁ l f — VV ald a e d A . S . e g (Suf olk) , spelt in the Charters 3 i n f ga eld . TH E UPPER and LOWER COURT LODGE are the names of the two farms into which the parish is divided . There are fewparishes in the district which have not a Court or

Court Lodge , Farm . The name has been before alluded 4 to under Horne .

LOWER and MIDDLE HOLLINGTON . This occurs in the f 19 5 O . Survey of Oxted , Eliz , as Hollinden , and in the

Lim ﬁ ld l n . . H n e s e 8 . a s o d e Extent of p , Hen VI , y In its present form it would seem to be from t h e tribe of the H olin a s n g , whom we ﬁnd in Holli gbourn (Kent) , Hol

1 H o 16 l . ii . . 4 . is t. S ur r e v o f y , p 2 E l i S a x n i n n la n v o . . . 4 d 76. o s g , p 3 m l 6 5 3 1 e e ex a t . 8 9 . K b , Cod , C r , 4 A l v v i . S u e h . C l l . a t i . 8 o . 6. rr y rc o , p r p 5 S a n . 1 ee te 7. , p E TYMOLOOIE 86 SURR E Y S .

d ling ou (Bucks) , Hollington Sussex) , ’ - i t li o la n w. or else is dene , the wooded glen in the hollo 1 - l l o la ud en occurs in four of the A . S . Charters . W i ISTLE R S W h i sle 1Vo od a 19 i WOOD , y (Rent l of Oxted , spelt in the e arly Deeds VVi s s elegh ; and a place 2

n . is n a med called 1Vi s s elegh d e e Mr . E dmunds derives ’ ﬁ r ee W i sb each this pre x f om w s , moist , and cites , Wis

- A . 85 0 . S . borough , Wisley , There are two places in the 3 — a r r 1Vi sléah B Ch te s of the same name , , Wisley ( erks) , r h i r U uis celea 1Vorc est e s e . and , Wisley ( ) R A S H G EAT WHISTLE , the name of a ﬁeld but whether it h a s any connection or not with the preceding name

I cannot say .

R . FA THING DOWN , GREAT and LITTLE This is another instance of the tribal name of the Farthin gs or Feor things , noticed before under MILL HILL and MILL FIELD indicate the existence of a m ill at this spot . In a lease of the Nether Court Lodge 1386 i 9 . . n Farm Ric II , , my possession , this field is Mullfi mentioned as the eld . ’ T R OTTE SCR OET (Deed , probably a possessor s 5 - m . n A na e I the . S . Charters is a place called Trottes ’ clib Tr ott er s clifl , now , Kent . KE MY NGE D E NE n 19 , mentioned in a Re tal of Oxted ,

. n Eliz , is from the clan or family of t h e Kemy ga s . PAR R E TTS an d E , UPPER LOW R , LONG and GREAT , and PAR R ETTS SIDE HILL , and WINDER , are names for which I can give no explanation .

C H E L S H A M .

. D om es da S urv e Celesh am CHELSHAM y y , and Chales ‘ ’ . - c eos el A . S . ham The name is derived from , for a 18 111116 ‘ h ’ 1 ; , c es sil . English This word is conﬁned , I

1 em le , d ex i l ma t a 1 83 1 t . 3 8 382 7 1 K b D p , , 71. 2 Co o C r , , T a e o f H i t i n th e N a me o P l 5 3 1 . r c s a e . s ory s , 3 f c s p em le , ex Di l ma t a 1 5 t . 2 4 1 5 0 . K b Cod p o , C r , 4 S u e A h . ll v l y o . v i . a i . t 94. rr rc Co , p r p . em le , dex i l m t a a t . K b Co D p o , C r 152 .

S U I:R E V ETYMOLOGIES .

h l rend ering o f Va c e e that the ﬁrst occupiers , or owners , e D c Va ch ele m n c alled themselv s , fro the ame of the a nd a r t pl a ce , the ch nge f om tha to Fairchild is a very In t a o f 1568 ea s y one . a Ren l Chelsham of the place er a n t ra F a i rech ild a ppe ars und ex ordinary alias , , other ” wise c alled Bla ckeb o r n e.

' ’ Fi i R LE s O V eckelesli oles 16 E dw. . H LE , Water, (Deed , kils li ild Fe (Rental , The preﬁx of this wo rd I believe to be a corruption of the Norman - French ’ a a n d a Vach ele word v che , th t the place was originally , h r i e th e Co w w. V a c e . . Meado Vaccary or y is a dairy a r a . f m , a n me which occurs at Vaccary , in Cranley parish h a s The Hole reference either to the pond of water , or ’ - M r m . an is f o hol , a hollow The Manor house , which 1 a wa s W ning s ys an ancient house , with a large ainscoted a h ll , and was pulled down before he wrote , was at Fair c li ild s h Fi cklesh ole , to whic adjoins and here may have

- been the d airy farm of the Lord of the Manor . L E D G E R s r a , forme ly a f rm , now a principal residence , ’ is merely a possessor s name . It appears as Leggers d . i n 3 7 . an in a Court Roll of Hen VI , Loggers the n Re ntal of 1568. Richard Leggers is a tena t in an early

E d . w. ci re. Rental , II This place has of late years been ’ n a u med The Ledgers , witho t any regard to its origin .

D OW D ALE S . , another manor It is so called from the a O f family of De Uved le , who were Lords of the Manor d 11 h a E . 16 w 1. 3 Chels m from the time of until 7 . ’

S OOTT s . 156 HALL In the Rental of 8 Mr . Scott appears

tem . as a tenant , and Sir Peter Scott , Knight , was living p r Cha les I . — 2 BE D D LE STE AD - a Bi les t de , Anglo S xon Charter , pp y ; Bed n es ted e a 1402 Ben sted e (Rent l of Titsey , ) (Rental , Bedlesb o rou h g was a tithing in the parish , for which a headborough was appointed at the Sheriff’ s

u . Bet tesen r e P Bett sh an er To rn g is a place in Kent ( g ) , i n 10 mentioned a Fine of Ric . I . I ha ve adverted to 3 Betles h am Li m s ﬁeld , the name of a ﬁeld in p , but can

1 H i o t. S u e v l . i o i . 425 s f rr y , p . . em le ex a t . 287 657 K b , Cod , C r , . 3 S u a . 5 1 p r , p . SUR RE Y ETY MOLOGIES . 89 suggest no explanation of this word in its earliest form of Bipplestyd e. E a li a s S LINE S Sl n es S INES , OAKS , occurs as y in the

1568 l O f 1657. Rental of , and in a Court Ro l It does not ’ seem like an owner s name , and I can give no meaning for it . L 1 OOKS H IR E . Manning says , that in Henley Wood is a piece of ground moated round , as if there had been a

i O f . mansion w thin it , and also the remains a well It is called L o ck sh i res Moat ; and there is a tradition that L k h ir this was the residence of a Sir John oc s e. The k h i r name is still retained in L o c s e Shaw. R AN SOOMR E a li a s R AYN SCOMBE — R ai n es c omb e , , (Rental

The name of a copyhold of the manor . Ran

’ ‘ or Rann , is given by Bosworth in his dictionary as a R m R an c . an cu o mb deer The same name occurs in , ? - A . S . (Devon) , in the Charters ‘ ’ UPPER and LOWER. MONS . The Latin Mons is applied n - in the early documents to the ra geof chalk hills . In fi 5 E f i m ld dw. O L s e . the Extent p Manor , II , the lands on ‘ m ’ the hill are described as Super ontem . The Mount Lim s field t is a high point on p Common , and the Moun m e e. . . Fields very numerous ; g The Mount , Caterham H U NTINGSH AR E L n , HUNTINGDON HI L , are ames which ’ e a t xpl in hemselves . Hunta , the hunter , is a common i n - A - prefix place names in the . S . Charters ; and be sides the county of Huntingdon , we find places of that name in Leicestershire , Hampshire , and Herefordshire . ’ BU G HILL , possibly from bug , a goblin or spectre , a word used in this sense by Spenser , Shakespeare , and w other riters ; whence bugbear . The association of hills ,

& c . streams , , with mysterious beings , elves , goblins , and

a . the like , is very common in local nomencl ture This a m a h i n me y be a contraction of burg h ll , the fortiﬁed

“ ‘

. Man n i n n hill g me tions a place called the Camp , and t says that on Bo tle Hill (perhaps Battle Hill) , in the

1 H i t S u e V ii . . o o l . . 42 4 s f rr y , p . 2 m l e e dex a t 3 3 . C . 7 K b , o , C r 3 S ee P P u l. i m t . a v n e ro p r , v rbo . 4 H o i t. u v i S e l . i . 42 2 . lm n o . S a A n ti ui ti e o S u e . 63 . s f rr y , p o , q s f rr y , p 90 S r R R E Y ETYMOLOGIES .

road into Kent , is a piece of ground sometimes called a ”

a an d . c mp , Oblong single ditched This Bottle Hill 1 rests upon the authority of C a mden ; but no such name is now known , and there is apparently a confusion between it and Botley Hill in Titsey . H ALLILE W m , the name of the hill adjoining Sli es , is ’

a li law . prob bly the hali or balig , the holy mound It m ay have been the scene of some sacred rites in early d times . A joining it , on Worms Heath , are a number of 10 20 ﬁ om large pits from to yards in diameter , and ’ 6 to 20 feet in depth . A writer in Murray s Hand book 2 says “ that they are traditionally said to h ave been used as hiding - places during the Danish ravages ; ” ut b their real purpose is very uncertain . Without giving any credit to this theory, they are , without d oubt , very ancient and worthy of notice . OTTE R LA l C S ND . Cotter and Cottier are O d English words for cottager the latter occurs in Piers Plough ” m an . otti h l C s a l is a ﬁeld in Warlingham . P VARLEY , now WORLEY BOTTOM

C . d GREAT and LITTLE LUN H On Stonehall Farm , Oxte is a wood called Lunch Wood , and in Caterham , ﬁelds

T u woo d . called Lunch , Further Lunch , and Lunch p Its meaning I cannot ascertain ; it is possibly synonymous 3 n with Lynch , mentio ed under Titsey . ‘ ’ MELBURY POOL . The preﬁx Mel , which occurs in ‘ mil ’ Melton and other places , is said to be for , a mill .

This would be the pool at the inclosure of the mill . It IS a name one would expect to ﬁnd applied to a water l : i n mi l this case it could only have been a windmill , with a pool or pond adjoining . ’ N BANK . There are one or two places of h .DEADMA S t is name in the district : they recall the murder or d eath of some one there .

GAMMER FIELD . Gammer is a word for an old wife or grandmother (grande - mere) z it is so explain ed by l ’ . Halliwe l Dame s Piece , Caterham , is analogous .

1 ’ G ou li s a mden v l i . 2 o . . 56. g C , p 2 H a n b k S u e a nd H a n t 2 1. d oo , rr y s , p . 3 S u ra . 75 p , p . 91 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

’ R HA LEY BOTTOM is from hara , the hare , as in Hare H areﬁeld d way , the name of a lane in Oxted ; (Mid lesex) , r H a leyfor d (Bucks) . —16- 11- HOLTS WOOD , Acre Holts , Acre Holts , is m ‘ ’ synonymous with the Ger an holz , a wood . The term , says Halliwell , is still in use for a small planta tion , and appears in early times to have been applied to a a forest of sm a ll extent . Brockett s ys it is a peaked hill covered with wood ; Howell , a hoult or grove of trees about a house . Alice Holt was the name of a

- forest near Wickham , in Hampshire ; Knock holt, a wood near Tenterden , in Kent , and also a parish in the 1 same county . LU GH U R ST NID R ILS ME AZLE S BOGR AMS E , , , , MINIM LAN , a li a s H ar e l SAFLEY , TAPLEY , and HEISHI E , names stil in

n o . existence , of which I can give explanation w ar e 1568 The follo ing from a Rental of , and from Court Rolls ’ A LL AR G ISPE LD E . , probably a possessor s name Algar was 1l th king of Mercia in the century , and the name was i likely to be adopted by others . Algark rk , in Lincoln

- A . S . shire , mentioned in the Charters , is said to have been erected on the spot where he was killed . A PAC SYMOS E dw. r e FIELD (Court Roll , a very markable name, sounding like a Greek word . I can s uggest no derivation for it . ’ BAR D OLE E S COURT , so called , doubtless , from the Bar d olf family , who were Lords of the Manor of

Addington , a parish adjoining Chelsham . It came to

r d lf temv . E . Ba o dw . them by the marriage of Hugh , I de n with Isabel , daughter and heir of Robert Aguilo , i In 2 R o . . 13 79 and continued their possession until II , , when William Bar d o lf had license to alienate it to 3 W al William c ot e. “ BE WKE P Bewke common ﬁeld called (Court Roll , 42 CO M CKE E R CO KKE SLOND . , The preﬁx is from the bird

1 F or P ul in v e bo . m e th i s w d s ee P m t. ar v or of or ro p , r 2 em l e 3 &c . C de a t . 2 3 K b , o x, C r , 3 Man 559. n i n i v ol . 11. H t. o S ur r e . g, s f y , p 92 SURREY ETYMOLO G IES .

d - th e . th e cock , mer being some old boun ary mark O W S E H O L'I‘ l 1568 C R , in the same Renta , , is the Crows

\Y oo d . C IIAR E S E BR OME Broom Lodge is the name of a

a a n d lo at . f rm , Brome th of a ﬁeld in Chelsham Of the

former p art of the word I can Offer no explanation . CONGII E R S'I‘ (1568) is probably a contraction O f CO i h Con i n g ers t . g is an old English word for a rabbit ; f o n i h urst . C g , the rabbit wood There is a ield in the

p arish still called Coney Oak . H E Y E NSTR E TE a tenement and land called 1 A - . S . H ev en strc te. The name occurs in the Charters H eo fen till H even till H eofen feld in , (Warwick) ; , Hefen feld (N We meet with the converse in Hell D ev ules Tat s ﬁeld ditch , near Godalming ; in Meadow , f a 1561 O . (Rent l , ) and in the Devil Kent , Westerham H AS E LE R S R H az leh atch , HALE S now , is from the h a - zel , which forms the root of no less than twenty four

- - place names in the A . S . Charters . H E ROW D E S R O f G OVE is , I believe , a corruption Here ’ ward or Hayward s grove . The heyward was th e keeper of cattle in a common field , says Mr . Albert “l ay? who prevented trespass on the cultivated ground ; he wa s synonymous with the tithin g - man or d ecen n arius , who was regularly sworn at the court . Ori i n all n o f g y, doubt , holders of this O fice , the family of H ayward came to be one of some importance in this and d the a joining parishes . Richard Hayward purchased 1587 Fickles Hole , Chesham , in , and died possessed of i n 1608 d it , together with lands in Godstone , Oxte , a Lim s field Lin field T ndridge , p , g , Crowhurst, Farley , and

Croydon . H ONID OCKE GROVE ? P R ICH E STE CR OETE P i d ( ) . P OCKE TS P i d ( , and Court Roll , R O UGII E LD E S 1568 R owh olts ( ) is , a manor and farm in

i . c . h r ou wo od . the parish ; , the row holt , or g R E PCLE SE E LD P

1 em le ex a rt 55 K b , Cod , C . . 2 P / m t. F a r m l . i n v e ro p , rbo . 93 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

P S AU GH E LLS (i d ) . 1 - A . S NAPE CR OE T In the S . Charters is a place S n a well a n d called Snap , Snape (Berks) , and p h Mr . Edmunds cites anot er place called Snape , in

Suffolk .

W ATE R STAPLE . Staple Field is the name of a ﬁeld in m Farley . Mr . E dmunds derives these places fro ’ s ta ul p , a stake , and says that they were the sites of markets .

NE TTLE STE D GREEN . This may be derived from the ‘ ’ - l A S . n et . , a nettle , or possibly it is connected with ’ - n n A . . t e . S y , cattle In the Charters are eight places

x . with this preﬁ There is a place called Nettlestead , near Maidstone, and one of the same name near ttl . e eb ed Ipswich N is in Oxfordshire , between Henley and Wallingford .

W A R L I N G H A M .

. W allin h am WARLINGHAM Domesday Survey , g ; Deed , 1154 W arli n t n 1158 o . , g , Warlingham The name is W earli n a s derived from the clan of g , who are given by

8 & Kemble in his list of the marks . W Man erium CREUSE , CRE ES COMMON , de Crewes

2 . (it . (Court Roll , Phil Mary) This place takes its name from the family of Carew . Sir Richard Willoughby , 13 60 says Manning? demised this manor by deed , dated , h ad to Nicholas de Carew, whose daughter Lucia he married .

WESTHALL , a manor in the parish given by Odo de

tem . . I . Dammartin , p Ric . , to the Priory of Tandridge

2 5 . The name occurs in a Court Roll of Eliz , and is still retained in Westhall Wood . It is in the western part of the parish , where formerly , no doubt , was an old manor house or hall .

1 emble d ex rt 12 C a . 49 80 9. K , o , C , 2 T a H i t e o . 2 88 r c s f s ory , p . 3 E i ited b ut tated S a n i n n la n d v ol . W a li n h a i s . . 476. m xo s g , p r g c , s e to b e i n u x by rror S sse . 4 H i u t o S e v l . 11 4 r o . . 28. s ory f r y, p 94 SURREY ETYMOLOGIE S .

a O f Old . HAMSEY GREEN , the name of p rt the common

There is a large pond near a homestead there , and I ’ ’ think th e deriv at ion is from hame s ea, the water of the home or dwelling . Hamsey is the name of a parish near H a m slon d Lewes . occurs in a Rental of Chelsham of 6 15 8. OMBE S 40 AY NSC , a copyhold tenement and acres of

3 7 . land , mentioned in a Court Roll of Henry VIII and

n an . subsequent Rolls . Probably the ame of early owner 1 ’ Mr . Edmunds gives the following explanation of ayn , ’ ‘ A n h e i . e. e o , from y, water , from which he derives y

(Nor th an t s) . ‘ ’ S UCCO MB o r FIELD , another of the many combs ’ dingles in this district . The preﬁx may be from soc , the ? n land held i n socage tenure . Mr . Edmunds so explai s

l W orces & c . l Suck ey ( ) , , but it is more probab y Suth combe , the South Comb . an d GREAT LITTLE ROUND BERRY ; Stone Berry, Chel sham ; Berry Field Shaw, Caterham . The word Berry ‘ ’ ‘ ’ h - i t e A . S . B r is y g , German Berg, in its primary signiﬁcation a hill . E 2 dw. GREAT KNOWL HILL , Knollwood (Court Roll , This word Halliwell explains as a little round 3

n . hill , in which se se , says Mr Edmunds , it is very ‘ ’ - . ll A . S . cn o common in Yorkshire It is from the , a hill . Knole is a place in Cranley , situated on a rising

. 6 E dw. . ground In a Deed of IV , a messuage is men ’ ti on ed ‘ lying at the Knolle in Egham , and in the l Kn o leh ll . same Deed occur Egham Knolle, and y R OW . This word occurs five times in this parish , and twelve times in the adjoining parish of Chelsham , as a field - name ; besides which , in describing the lands , the measurement of the fields is given , and then that of the ’ rough adjoining . Row , as was before noticed , means rough , and the constant occurrence of the word gives an insight into the condition of the land on these hills in former times . If I am right in supposing that

1 T a e o H i t 168. r c s f s ory , p . 3 Id 0 3 . 2 . . 9 , p Id , 2 37.

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’ S LACYE , a possessor s name ; but the name does not a ppear o n the Rolls . m R Y C IIANTR E Y . n a me C IIANT , HILL This would see to f imply th a t this l and wa s charged wi th the payment O a priest to sing ma ss under the beq uest of some founder I a m not a wa re whether there was a chantry in the church of Warlingham .

C A T E R H A M .

CATERHAM . Not mentioned in Domesday by a n me , but conjectured by Manning l to be a place there spoken of as Azors Manor ; spelt in early deeds some 2 v times Katerh a m . Taylor suggests two deri ations of ’ n — the nai e , one as being connected with gate , a road , like Reigate and Gatton ; the other from the Celtic word ‘ ’ cath , battle . The ﬁrst seems a very unlikely trans position O f letters ; the G being retained in Gatton and wu Godstone , it is not probable that it o ld be changed into C in this place ; the second must be rejected alto gether , as being a Celtic word , which in this district is 3 inadmissible . Neither can I agree with Mr . Flower in ’ e a r ferring it to castrum , a c mp . He remarks that he knows of no instance in which Castrum becomes Cater .

It is , I believe , invariably Caster or Chester . Mr . ’ 4 ’ E d i nun ds derivation from cat , the wild cat , seems to me more probable , though , where that occurs as a preﬁx , u Cat sﬁ eld u it is generally in s ch a form as (S ssex) , Cat thorp (Leicester) . I am inclined to class it among the tribal names , and believe it to be a contraction of Ca terin a sh am g , the abode of the Caterings or Ketter ings , possibly the same clan whom we meet with at h Kettering (Nort ants) . The modern and objectionable ‘ ’ pronunciation Caterham with the a long , dates from the opening of the railway and t h e erection of villas .

1 Ma n n i n a n d B a H i t. o S u e v ol . ii . . 434 g r y, s f rr y , p . 2 W d a n d P la e 252 . 304. or s c s , pp , 3 S ur e A /i o r . C ll v l o . t i . . 8 . a i 1 4. r y r , v p r r ‘ 1' T a e o Il 'is l or 1 5 . 8 r c s f y , p . SURREY ETYMOLOGIES . 97

W AR C . COPPI E This , which Taylor adduces in support ’ of his derivation from cath , a battle , has been noticed at some length by Mr . Flower , l and in his view , that it has nothing to do with war , I entirely agree . Such a n mes as Battle Hill , Slaughterford , point to engage ments which have taken place there b ut war is a word used in a general sense , and could not be restricted within the limits of a ﬁeld or a copse . Mr . Flower a s suggests Warwick , and gives his reason the proximity

w . of War ick Wold It may be so , but I think that ’ - ae A . S . w r or wer , for an inclosure , is the more pro bable explanation . ’ CAP CARDINAL S , given by Manning as the name of the il camp on Whiteh l , so called , I believe , from the shape h i of the ll , which , at a distance , has somewhat the appearance of a round cap . old STANSTEAD , STANSTEAD HEATH , mark the line of the

Stane Street , which passed out of Sussex through h i Godstone by Stretton , and over t s common . Gaters , i n 19 this parish (Pal . Hen . is another allusion to this road . i P OR KE LE e r . . (Deed , Hen a name preserved in n Portley Dea , Port Field , and Port Mead . I can suggest no mean ing for this name . R IE R N FR YE R N l F , or , a farm part y in this parish and partly in Chaldon , held of the Manor of Caterham , ll Fr er n where is still a ﬁeld ca ed Great y Field , and a ll r wood ca ed Frye n Wood . These places are so called, 2

Mr . e. . says Edmunds , from having belonged to friars g , Fr ern y Barnet (Middlesex) . The Abbey of Waltham

an d . owned the manor before the dissolution , St ’ Thomas s Hospital had property in the parish ; so th a t the name probably o wes its origin to this source .

Abbotts , a ﬁeld here , is either from Waltham Abbey or

Chertsey Abbey , both of which had lands in the parish .

U wo de 152 7 Tu o d . UPWOOD , written p , ; now p This i e. latter is a contraction of The Upwood ; . the wood on

1 S u e Ar h l l 3 l v o ii . 18 . c . Co . . a t . rr y , v p r p 2 T a es o H i to 2 0 . 1 r c f s ry , p . H 98 SURREY ETYMOLOGIES .

- A . S . the upper or high ground . In the Charters l is a

U wud n n o w . place i n Huntingdon , p ; Upwood There

- are no less than forty two places cal led Upton . a ri n ci al SA LMONS , a manor , or reputed manor and p p

- fa rm house , owes its name to the family of Saleman , one

16 E dw. . of whom , Roger Saleman , died seized of it , III ,

a n d h 3 . . 1343 , T omas Salman was owner in Hen V m Salmons , a large far in Penshurst, Kent , is probably

named from the same family . HOLBORN HILL reco rds a natural phenomenon which h occurs i n this paris from time to time , at intervals of

i . e. about seven years ; the breaking out of a stream , ‘ ’ which goes by the name of the Bourn , and ﬂows through the ﬁelds by Caterham Railway Junction into 2 u Croydon . Aubrey mentions it , but , by some conf sion , i under Crowhurst parish , instead of Warlingham , wh ch is clearly intended , as he says that it rises in a grove of

- i n W . yewtrees within the manor of esthall , Warlingham It is popularly supposed to be the forerunner of some ” u remarkable event . It rises , says Aubrey, pon the approach of some remarkable alteration in Church or r un State . It began to a little before Christmas , and u ae ceased abo t the end of May , at that most glorious ra 16 60. 1665 of English liberty , the year In it preceded

u 1688. the Plague in London , and the Revol tion in

Under Caterham , the same writer notices it as a ‘ ’ “ ” “ i lbur n ll . Na Bourn , says Halliwe , is a kind of

- temporary brook or intermittent land spring, very irre

gular in its visitation and duration . There are several i n Na lbur s i n . D arkwor th h 24 Kent C ronicle , p . , men ‘ ’ n b sid e Can t urbur a lb orn e tio s one y y called N y , which ” am seems to be one below Barh Downs . This Holborn

- Hill is the Hol Bourne , or rivulet in the hollow ; ‘ ’ - A . S . bourn being for a stream . It is situated not

far from the spot where it breaks out .

D . R idlan d s Lim s ﬁeld RI ING Under , in p , I gave nume

rous instances of this word in the form of ridden s . There

1 em le C dex a t . 581 80 9. K b , o , C r , 2 H ‘ i t. S a r re v l i ii o . . . 47. s qf y, p

100 SURREY E TY i IO LOGIE s .

Nob signiﬁes a head or crest . White Hill is the name of the hill on the summit of which is the camp . ’ ld ’ IIILTE R S c ea . . C , possibly from chil or , cold Mr 1 Edmunds gives it this meaning , and cites Chilham ,

Chiltern . The following are probably derived from the names of owners or occupiers ’ ’ ’ COLLIER S DOWN , COLLIER S CROFT , KEMP S HILL , WOOL ’ ’ ’ ’ i IAi i s W H ITTE NTON S ASON S a li a s BANK , BULLEN S FIELD , , J , ’ ’

J E YS ON S C . HILL , NAP S PIE E Of the following I can give no explan ation S CR OU CH E S U P IZZAMS BANNANS , GREAT , TA NTON MEAD ,

N LU D FIE LD BE AD ON GALIE R E . BA K , , UPPE R ,

1 T a es o H i t 18 . 8. r c f s ory, p