In BIRT'S MORTON, or Brutes Morton, are Spark Horn, and Tumpy Leasow. In "Domesday Book," this place is written Mortune. In CASTLE MORTON, adjoining Birt's Morton, are Vamperley Field, Vamperley Meadow, Aldine Meadow, Budnil (Buddenhill) Common Field, the Doles, Dole's Hole, Hagg Hills, Agg Meadow, Ambers, Stoned Hole, Great Gog Bridge, Little Gog Bridge, Tadmoor, Inkstones*, Camp Hill, Gadbury Hill, and Kittans. It was formerly called Morton Folliott. See p. 71, where a tumulus, there called "Castle Tump," is mentioned. In LONGDON, anciently Longedon, are Stirts Middle Piece, Yelters, Rugged Nell, Robert's-end Orchard, Doles, Hare Plock (Pleck), Hare Bridge, Occo, Guller's End, Hurste, and the Styrte. See Chap. iv., as to Hoar Pit, in this parish. In " Domesday Book" it is called Longedune, and in Anglo-Saxon charters, Langdún, Langandún, Lengandúne, and Longedúne. • See Inkberrow, Iter XVII. See pp. 71, 72, concerning Morton Folliot seal. Iter XIII. ANCIENT ROAD FROM WALL HILLS CAMP AND THE HEREFORDSHIRE SAXON'S FROM THE HEREFORDSHIRE BEACON CAMP TO HANLEY QUAY. FROM GREAT MALVERN TO THE RHYD. FROM Wall Hills Camp a road appears to have gone along the before-mentioned line, over Dog's Hill to Kilbury Camp, and the Herefordshire Beacon Camp; thence eastward into Worcestershire, on the south side of Dane Moor Copse, and along Drake Street, by Brook End, and the Lake on Hook Common; thence along Duckswick to the Severn, which it probably crossed either at Upton or more southward, at Saxon's Lode, vulgo, Saxton's or Sexton's Lode. Another road seems to have extended from the Herefordshire Beacon Camp, by Malvern Wells, along Robert's-end Street (otherwise Robertson Street) and through Hanley Castle parish to Hanley Quay, where it probably crossed the Severn. A road likewise appears to have run from Great Malvern, along Pool-End Street and Barnard's Green, by Dripshill or Tripshill*, and Drake's Place to the Ferry or Ford at the Rhydd or Ridd 4. In COLWALL there is a place called the Low, and a road called Evendine Street. See further relative to this parish in the account of the Malvern Hills. In LITTLE MALVERN there are Upper Sarte Piece and Lower Sarte Piece. See p. 154 to 163, &c. concerning various ancient relics found in this parish. In WELLAND there is a place called Tyre Hill (situated between Dane Moor Copse and Robertson or Robertsend Street); also Dain Moor Hill and Five Hill Field. It was anciently called Wenlond, or Wonlond. Dr. Nash supposes the name to have been derived from the Saxon " Won," dirty; but may it not be a contraction of Woden? In the parish of UPTON§ upon Severn, there are Mount||, Raven Hill, Leckeridge, Lockeridge; Upper, Middle, and Lower Tuck-Mill Piece, Gilver Lane Meadow, Monsul, Hoote Common, Mancroft, Bury Field, Brants, Talver's Field, Talver's Ley, Perlons Close, Great Pickes, and Little Pickes**. In the parish of HANLEY CASTLE are Great Tickeridge, Launtridge, and Robert's-end Street. This parish is named Hamley in Leland's "Itinerary.” In the parish of GREAT MALVERN there are Quorn Meadow, Hob Well, Twinberrow, Gorick Hill, Sembre Furlong, Sharvastor or Sharvaster, Sharvest Graffe, Upper Radnor Meadow, Lower Radnor Pasture, Bearcroft Meadow (in Garlesford Court Farm), and Cockshoot, Cockshute, or Cockshut Orchard, Lane, and Farm, at the Link. These names, most probably, are a corruption of the word "assart," or "essart," which means land grubbed in a forest and converted into tillage. § It is written Uptún in the "Codex Dip.," No. 65, &c. There is an earthwork near it in Green Fields estate. See p. 194, &c. ** See pp. 60, 61, 62, concerning ancient relics found there. ++ See Gough's "Camden." Twinbarrow, vulgo, Twinberrow, is situated about a quarter of a mile northward of the Moat Farm, in Barnard's Green. See pp. 166, as to the derivation of the name. There is Radnal Field, in Elmbridge, in Doderhill; Radnal Pit, in Belbroughton; Rad Meadow, in Claines; Rad Meadow, in Hindlip; Rad Castle Orchard and Meadow, in Stoke Bliss; Radge Coppice, in Abberley, Radnall, in Rushock; Radbury Bank, in Martley; and Rad Meadow, in Great Witley*. These names are probably derived from the Saxon "ræd," council. It is said that the name "Cock-shoot," probably designates the places where springes or nets were set to catch woodcocks; and that the syllable "shoot," means the hole or gap in the bank or hedge through which the woodcocks either ran or fled into the springe or net. Now it must be observed that the springs of water from North Malvern Hill, run by the spot in question, and it was a very likely place in days of yore to be frequented by woodcocks. Still, however, spouts or cocks for water-shoots, vulgo shuts, at the bottom of hills, banks, or slopes, may possibly have given rise to some of the names in question; for instance, there is Cockshute, by Dormston Hill; Cockshoot Hill, in Hadsor, near Droitwich; Cockshut Hill, in Lulsley; and Cockshoot Hill at Shelsley Beauchamp. But as these localities, even if they have or had spouts, would be equally favourable for woodcocks, it is probable that the first-mentioned derivation is, in some such cases, the primary one; and when Shakespeare speaks of "cockshut time " he probably refers to the twilight, when woodcocks¶ run or fly A place called Radborough was one of the Anglo-Saxon boundaries of Codeston or Cutsdean, and Radley of Whittington. See Heming's "Cartulary," Vol. ii., pp. 348, 359. + See the "Journal of the Archæological Institute," Vol. v., pp. 118 to 121. The peasantry call those channels made to carry rain water off ploughed lands "land shuts," and natural rills "water shuts." Thus a spring with a spout at the foot of a hill or slope, would, in common language, be a “cockshut." There is one on the side of the Malvern road, just above Cockshut Farm. § Cockshut is also a personal name. See Nichols's "History of Leicestershire," Vol. iv., Part 2, p. 524. || Richard III., Act v., Scene 3. Almost all classes in the country, when speaking of woodcocks, scarcely ever use the prefix. out of the covers, and were caught at the shoots in the springes or nets. In MADRESFIELD, Maddersfield, or Madersfield*, there are places named Stamperfield, Stampal or March Field, Dripshill or Tripshill†, and Cleve Lode or Clyve Lode. Perhaps from the Saxon "madere," a plant. pear to be noticed in "Domesday Book." + See the "Folk-Lore." 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