BUS, BUSH (Anglo-Saxon), _a small wood_.—BUSCH (German), BOSC (Scandinavian).—BUSH-ey, BOS-ham, BUS-by, BUS-cot, BUSH-bury, BUSS of Newham, BUSS of Werdie; Col-BOSC, Mille-BOSC, Rom-BOSC, BOSCHEN-ried, and Dicke-BUSCH. BENT (Provincial), _a plain_, _field_, _a common_.—BENT-ham, BENT-ley, Hayton’s BENT, BENT-hall, BENT-worth, Chow-BENT, &c. BOTM (Anglo-Saxon), BOTTOM (English), _a dale_.—Gunner-kild-BOTTOM, Houn-dene-BOTTOM, Shuffle-BOTTOM (Shaw-field-BOTTOM), Owler-BOTTOM, and Brook-BOTTOM. CAR (Anglo-Saxon), _a plain_.—CAR-ham, CAR-stairs. CHIN, CHINE (Anglo-Saxon), _a cleft_, _hollow_.—CHIN-ley-churn, Crow-CHINE, &c. CUP (Anglo-Saxon), _a hollow_.—Bu-CUP, CUB-ley, &c. CROFT (Scandinavian), _a small field_.—CRAW-ton, Wey-CROFT, CROFT Farm, Sander-CROFT, Haver-CROFT, CROF-ton, Cox-CROFT, and Wivels-CROFT. In France the same root is found under the form CROTTES. COMB (Anglo-Saxon), _a valley or low piece of ground_, _a space between two hills_.—COMBE, Brans-COMBE, Bor-COMBE, Clo-COMBE, Gat-COMBE, Sted-COMBE, COMP-ton. DAL (Scandinavian), _a valley_ (from DALA, _to depress_); THAL (German).—Scar-DALE, Ken-DAL, Arun-DELL, DAL-wood, Dingley-DELL, Co-DALE, Gris-DALE, Ul-DALE, DUL-wich, DUL-ver-ton, Schön-THAL, Rein-THAL, Dussel-THAL, DAL-hem, DALS-land, DAL-bye, DAL-heim, DAL-river, &c.; Dane-TAL, Darne-TAL, DELLE du Bog, DELLE du Fosse. DEONU, DIONU, DENU, DEN, DEAN (Anglo-Saxon), _a wood_, _pasture_, _valley_, _hollow_, _ravine_, &c.—Taunton DEAN, Forest of DEAN, Deb-DEN, Cob-DEN, Hammer-DEN, Bals-DEAN, O-DEAN, Dib-DEN, DEN-by, DEN-bigh, &c. FIELD, FELD (Anglo-Saxon), _detached localities partly open_, _an open height_, _a plain_.—Heath-FIELD, Spring-FIELD, Neither-FIELD, Lang-FIELD, &c. The German form, FELD, occurs in FELD-berg, FELD-kirch, Lingen-FELD, Hume-FELD, Alten-FELD, Lichter-VELDE, Basse-VELDE, &c. FOLD, FOL, FALD (Scandinavian), _land district_, _enclosure for sheep_, &c.—Nettle-FORD, Ox-FOLD, Had-FOLD, Ex-FOLD, Ash-FOLD, Frith-FOLD, Duns-FOLD, &c. GAP (Scandinavian), _an opening between hills_.—Raise GAP, Whin-latter-GAP, YAP-ton. GRAFE (Anglo-Saxon), _a small wood_, _a grove_.—No-bottle-GROVE, Bo-GROVE, By-GRAVE, GRAF-ton, Cot-GRAVE, Red-GRAVE, and Chal-GROVE. HAG, HAY, HEDGE, EDGE (Anglo-Saxon), _a limit boundary_, _fence_, _any enclosure_, _a single field_, _a plot of ground fenced in and surrounded by an hedge_; HAGA (Scandinavian), HAG (Gothic), _enclosed pasturage_, _a cultivated copse or woodland_.—HAG-borne, HAG-ley, HAG-loe, HEDGER-ley, HAY-don, HAY-dock, HAY, West-HAY, Cut-HAYES, Wil-HAY, Child-HAYES, HAY-ton, HAYES, Comb-HAY, HAG-a, HAGEN, the HAGUE, HAGEN-au, Dorls-HAGEN, Falken-HAGEN. HANGER, HANGRA, ANGER (Anglo-Saxon), _a meadow near a wood, surrounded by a furrow_.—Fisher-ton-ANGER, Clay-HANGER, ANGER-ton, Cle-HANGER, Oke-HANGER-mere.
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