a stone house, a palace; _e.g._ Eccleshall (church house), in Staffordshire, where the Bishops of Lichfield had a palace; Coggeshall, in Essex (Gwgan’s mansion); Kenninghall (the king’s palace), in Norfolk, at one time the residence of the princes of East Anglia. [Sidenote: HALL and HALLE,] in German topography, is a general name for a place where salt is manufactured. The word has its root in the Cym.-Cel. _halen_ (salt), cognate with the Gadhelic _salen_ and the Teut. _salz_, probably from the Grk. _hals_ (the sea). Hall and Halle, as town names, are found in connection with _Salz_; as in Hall in Upper Austria, near the Salzberg (a hill with salt mines), and Hall, near the salt mines in the Tyrol; Halle, in Prussian Saxony, on the R. Saale; Reichenhall (rich salt-work), in Bavaria; Hallein, celebrated for its salt-works and baths, on the Salza; Hallstadt, also noted for its salt-works; Hall, in Wurtemberg, near salt springs; Halton, in Cheshire, probably takes its name from the salt mines and works in the neighbourhood; _Penardhalawig_ (the headland of the salt marsh) was the ancient name of Hawarden, in Flint and Cheshire; Halys and Halycus (salt streams), in Galatia and Sicily. [Sidenote: HAM, HEIM (Teut. and Scand.), HJEM, HEIM,] a home or family residence, literally a place of shelter, from _heimen_, Ger. (to cover), _hama_, A.S. (a covering), cognate with the Grk. _heima_; _e.g._ Hampstead and Hampton (the home place); Okehampton (the dwelling on the R. Oke), in Devonshire; Oakham (oak dwelling), so called from the numerous oaks that used to grow in its vicinity; Buckingham (the home of the Buccingus or dwellers among beech-trees); Birmingham, probably a patronymic from the Boerings; Addlingham and Edlingham (the home of the Athelings or nobles); Horsham (Horsa’s dwelling); Clapham (Clapa’s home); Epsom, anc. _Thermæ-Ebbesham_ (the warm springs of Ebba, a Saxon queen); Flitcham (Felex’s home); Blenheim, Ger. _Blindheim_ (dull home), in Bavaria; Nottingham, A.S. _Snotengaham_ (the dwelling near caves); Shoreham (the dwelling on the coast); Waltham (the dwelling near a wood); Framlingham (the dwelling of the strangers), from the A.S.; Grantham (Granta’s dwelling); Ightham (the parish with eight villages), in Kent; Wrexham, anc. _Writtlesham_ (the town of wreaths), A.S. _wreoth_; Ingelheim (the dwelling of the Angli); Ingersheim (of Ingra); Oppenheim (of Uppo); Rodelheim (of Rodolph); Southampton (the _south_ dwelling, in distinction from Northampton); Twickenham (the dwelling between the streams, where the Thames seems to be divided into two streams); Rotherham, anc. Cel. _Yr odre_ (the boundary), Lat. _Ad-fines_ (on the boundary); Wolverhampton (the dwelling endowed by the Lady Wulfrana in the tenth century); Godmanham, in Yorkshire (the holy man’s dwelling), the site of an idol temple, destroyed under the preaching of Paulinus, whose name it bears. This root-word is often joined to the name of a river, thus--Coleham,