_For the Table Book._
The names of towns, cities, or villages, which terminate in _ter_, such
as Ches_ter_, Cas_ter_, Ces_ter_, show that the Romans, in their stay
among us, made fortifications about the places where they are now
situated. In the Latin tongue _Castra_ is the name of these
fortifications--such are Castor, Chester, Doncaster, Leicester: _Don_
signifies a mountain, and _Ley_, or _Lei_, ground widely overgrown.
In our ancient tongue _wich_, or _wick_, means a place of refuge, and is
the termination of Warwick, Sandwich, Greenwich, Woolwich, &c.
_Thorp_, before the word village was borrowed from the French, was used
in its stead, and is found at the end of many towns’ names.
_Bury_, _Burgh_, or _Berry_, signifies, metaphorically, a town having a
wall about it, sometimes a high, or chief place.
_Wold_ means a plain open country.
_Combe_, a valley between two hills.
_Knock_, a hill.
_Hurst_, a woody place.
_Magh_, a field.
_Innes_, an island.
_Worth_, a place situated between two rivers.
_Ing_, a tract of meadows.
_Minster_ is a contraction of monastery.