an embankment, a rampart, a wall, cognate with the Lat. _vallum_, the Gadhelic _balla_, and the Welsh _gwal_; _e.g._ Walton, on the Naze, where there was a walled enclosure to defend the northern intruders from the assaults of their hostile Saxon neighbours; Walton, also, in the east corner of Suffolk (the town near the wall); also Walton, on the Thames; Walton-le-dale and Walton (on the hill), in Lancashire; Wallsend (at the end of the wall), in Northumberland; Walford, in Hereford (the ford near a Roman fortification); Wallsoken (the place near the wall, where the judicial courts were held)--_v._ SOC; Walmer (the sea-wall), in Kent; Wallburg, Walldorf (walled towns), in Germany; Wallingford, in Berks, anc. _Gallena_, Welsh _Gwal-hen_ (the old wall or fortification), A.S. _Wealingaford_; Wallmill, Wallshiels, Wallfoot, Wallhead, places in Northumberland near the wall of Adrian; Walpole (the dwelling, _bol_, near the wall), in Norfolk, a sea-bank raised by the Romans as a defence from the sea; but Walsham and Walsingham, in Norfolk, take their name from the _Waelsings_, a tribe. This place was called by Erasmus Parathalasia, Grk. (by the sea-beach). [Sidenote: WALSCH (Ger.), WEALH (A.S.), VLACH (Sclav.),] foreign. These words were applied by the Teutonic and Sclavonic nations to all foreigners, and to the countries inhabited or colonised by those who did not come from a Teutonic stock or speak their language. In the charters of the Scoto-Saxon kings the Celtic Picts of Cambria and Strathclyde were called _Wallenses_; _e.g._ Wales, _Gwalia_--root _gwal_ or _gall_, foreign. The Welsh call their own country _Cymru_ (the abode of the Kymry or aborigines)--(the home of the Cymric Celts), so named by the Saxons; Wallachia (the strangers’ land, _vlach_), so called by the Germans and Sclaves because colonised by the Romans; Walcherin, anc. _Walacria_ or _Gualacra_ (the island of the strangers or Celts); Cornwall (the horn or promontory of the Celts); also Cornuailles (a district in Brittany peopled by British emigrants from Wales); Wallendorf (the town of the strangers), the German name for _Olaszi_ or _Olak_, in Hungary, peopled by Wallachians; Wallenstadt and Wallensee (the town and lake on the borders of the Romansch district of the Grisons, conquered by the Romans under Constantius); Wâlschland, the German name for Italy. The Celts of Flanders were also called Walloons by their German neighbours; and Wlachowitz, in Moravia, means the town of the Wallachs or strangers. The Gadhelic _gall_ (foreign), although used with the same meaning as _wealh_, is not connected with it. It is a word that has been applied to strangers by the Irish from the remotest antiquity; and as it was applied by them to the natives of Gaul (_Galli_), _gall_, in the first instance, might mean simply a native of Gaul. It was afterwards used in reference to the Norwegians, _Fionn-ghaill_ (the _fair_-haired strangers); and to the