parish of Droitwich) there are places named Holbro' Ground, Great Caterans Hill, Caterns Hill, Kit Pit, and Radnal Field. In Domesday Book," it is spelled Elmerige.

In RUSHOCK there are Bumble Hole, Oldbury, Big, Little, Middle, and Far Oldbury; Wassal's Meadow, Jack Meadow, Camp Close, Wattlestitch Meadow, Big Trench, Little Trench, North and South Conderlands, Radnall, and Aston Field. It was anciently written, Rixuc and Rushoke Regis; and, in "Domesday," Russococ.

In CHADDESLEY CORBETT there are places named Tan Wood, Tan Wood Meadow, Lower Tan Wood Meadow, Tan Wood Field, Tin Meadow, Cannages Moor, Hackerage, Bagnett, The Dole, Burnt Oak, Judy's Close, Blizzardines, Hobt Moor, Har borough Ash, Rattlestones, Warstone, Little Warstone, The Warrage, Dead Moor, Far and Near Lincridge, Lincridge Meadow, Cakebole Pool, Near and Far Cakebole Meadow, Robin Hood's Oak, Yes Hill, Tagbourne, Sharrow Point, Astwood Hill and Meadow, Barrow Hill, Barrow Hill Field, Barrow Hill Lane Field, Far Long Barrow Field, Long Barrow Field, Little Barrow Field, Cross Barrow Field, Ran Dan Woods, Tatton Hill, and Dobies.

Chaddesley was formerly called Chadsley, Ceadresleaghe, and Caddeslai; in " Domesday," Cedeslai. See further, as to this parish, p. 124, &c.

In Cakebold, in Chaddesley Corbett, there are Hither, Further, and Upper Tin Meadow.

In BELBROUGHTON there are Hanging Hill, Barrow's Croft, Round Hill, Tom Hills, Belsey Field, Radnall Pit, Bonfire Hill, Big, Little, Middle, and Burnt Lights, Dane Field, Wall Hill Strip, Little and Great Chenil, Ran Dan Woods, and Cakebold. In BROOME there is a place called Castle Hedge.

In CLENT there are places named Saltpit Piece, Upper Worgen, Lower Wargen, Hill Church, Kitwell Meadow, Warstone, The Beacon Hill, Little Beacon Hill, Upper, Middle, and Lower Tin

* See "Codex Dip.," No. 508, 508 App., Vol. iii.

+ See the "Folk-Lore."

See p. 135, relative to Roman relics found in this parish.

Fields, and Castle Hill *. Dr. Nash suggests that the name Clent is a corruption of the British word "glenn;" and adds, that the Cornish "glyn," the Irish "gleann," and the Saxon "glen," all agree with the British " glenn," in denoting a narrow valley or dingle encompassed with a wood.

CHURCHILLt, near Kidderminster, was anciently called Cercehall, Cercehalle, and Chirchehylle; and, in "Domesday," Cercehalle.

In HAGLEY there are Dead Marsh, Hoar Stone, Big and Little Hoar Stone, The Goers, Wichbury Hill, Round Hill Wood, Beacon Hill Meadow, Harberrow Field and Common, Nail Den, First and Second Wassall Piece, Wassall Field, and Big and Lower Stitchings. This parish was often spelled Haggelegh. In "Domesday Book" it is written Hageleia; and in the "Codex Dip.." No. 570, Haganleah. The name is derived from the Saxon, Haga (domus), and Leag, or Lega, a lea, or leyt.

In PEDMORE there are Upper Spirits Field, and Wichbury Hill. Pedmore was anciently written Pevemore.

In HALES OWEN there are Moors (or Mours) Street, and The Coombs. This place was formerly written Hales and Halas §.

In the township of WARLEY WIGORN, in Hales Owen (anciently written Werwelie) there are Hell Hole, Caldwell Leasow, First Quinton Field, Upper Quinton Field, Lower Quinton, Bearlands Wood, Bearsland, Upper and Lower Bearsland, and Hobby Kiss.

In the township of RIDGACRE, in Hales Owen, are places named Aldridge Meadow and First Quinton Field.

In the township of WARLEY SALOP, in Hales Owen, is a place called Part of Portway Field.

See pp. 137, 138, relative to ancient British and Roman antiquities found in Clent.

+ There is another Churchill, near Bredicot.

Vide pp. 136 to 142, relative to Roman and other antiquities found in this parish.

§ See pp. 142, 143, as to various ancient relics found in this parish.

In the township of CAKEMORE, in Hales Owen, is Dogney's Meadow.

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In 1804, many Roman coins were found in an earthen vessel, deposited at a small depth below the surface, at Cakemore; but few only of these coins were preserved*."

In the township of ASBURY, in Hales Owen, there are Jack Field, Little Jack, Old Jack, and Tom Wood.

In the township of HALES OWEN there is a place called Tenter Field.

In LUTTLEY, in Hales Owen, there are Pen Field, Twizzlebatch, and Robin's Field.

In CRADLEY (anciently Cradelei), a township in Hales Owen, there are Warling Meadow and Coppy (Coppice),Warling.

In ROMSLEY, a township in Hales Owen, there are Long Doles, Great Castle Hill, Castle Hill, Uffmoor, Old Battery Meadow, Quinton Piece, and Ell Wood.

In OLD SWINFORD there is a place called Ambry Hill. Bishop Lyttelton + states that this place was so called from a ford over a brook or rivulet named Swint; but Dr. Nash§ doubted that opinion. May it not have been the ford for swine?

STOURBRIDGE PARISH was originally called Bedcote. There are Hill Bank and Hob Green between it and Hales Owen.

In the hamlet of AMBLECOATE, in the Staffordshire part of Old Swinford, there are Powkmore || Hill, Hares Close, Bolas Meadow, Bolas Piece, High Oldbury, Petre Hill, Round Hill, and Babylon.

This line of road is referred to by Nash¶, who quotes the following from Bishop Lyttelton's account of the Roman roads :

"A third Roman road comes out of Salop or Staffordshire, and passes over the heath near Stourbridge, where, by a place called Green's Forge, is a vast camp called the Church Yard, and men

See Lewis's "Topographical Dictionary."

+ MS., Lyttel.

There is also the Swin, in the sea, off the Suffolk coast. Can it be synonymous with the word "swill."

tioned by Dr. Plott in his Natural History of Staffordshire,' which proceeds through Hagley Common, and is known by the name of the King's Head Land; and not far distant is a great Roman camp on Whichbury Hill*, and three lows or tumuli on the common very near it; and I suspect this road also leads by Clent and Chaddesley to Worcester."

It is probable that this road either ran in a north-westerly course into the Western Trackway, described in Iter XV.; or, north-east into the Rycknield Street, described in Iter XIX.

ANCIENT CAMPS ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE COUNTY.

The following are the ancient camps along or near the southern side of the county, from west to east:

Wall Hills Camp, and Kilbury Campt, near Ledbury; Haffield Camp, near Bromsberrow; The Herefordshire Beacon Camp, and Midsummer Hill Camp, on the Malvern Hills; Castle Hill Camp, in Castle Morton; and the camps on Towbury Hill, Kemerton Hill, Conderton Hill, Oxenton Hill, Dixton Hill, and Nottingham Hill. Several of these have been previously noticed.

ANCIENT ROADS ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE COUNTY.

The following are the probable lines of the ancient roads along or near the southern side of the county. The starting point of all of them may be taken from Wall Hills Camp, near Ledbury, from whence they issued in four principal lines as follow.

There also is a camp at Kniver Edge.-See p. 144.

+ The Ordnance Map has it " Rilbury Camp."

Iter X.

ANCIENT ROAD

FROM

WALL HILLS CAMP TO GLOUCESTER.

FROM this camp a road appears to have stretched southwestward by Ledbury, Eastnor, and Haffield Camp, in Herefordshire (situated about two miles west of Conigree Hill, in Bromsberrow, in Gloucestershire), thence by Rid Marley D'Abitot to Gadbury Banks, and Bury Hill, in Eldersfield; thence by Birth Hill, and along Lime Street, in Worcestershire; across Corse Wood Hill, along Wickridge Street, by the Barrow Farm, and Barrow Hill, to Cinderbury; Ashelworth Green, Longridge End, and thence by Springhill and Maisemore, in Gloucestershire, to Gloucester, A branch of this road may have gone from Gadbury Banks to Staunton Coppice, thence to Staunton in Worcestershire, along Harridge or Harwich Street, and so to Wickeridge Street in Gloucestershire.

In LEDBURY parish there are,-Vineyard Bank, The Camp, Suggals, Wall-ends Meadow, Vineyard and Oldbury, Warcroft, Wall Hills Wood and Coppice, Wall Moors, Rigdeway Field and Coppice, Oral Green Meadow, Stirt's Meadow, Coneybury Hill, Coneygree Wood Camp, Camp Hopyard, Camp Orchard, and Hare Hill.

The camp at Wall Hills, which contains an area of near thirty acres, is situated about a mile from Ledbury, and is supposed to have been originally British, and subsequently occupied as a Roman station. Ledbury appears to have derived its name

See pp. 70, 71, 218, relative to this remarkable hill.