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| | History of English Place-Names |
 | | Adjectival elements come from a wide assortment of words: personal names or folk names, adjectives indicating age, size, color or situation, direction, topographical elements including rivers, plants wild and domestic, animals wild and domestic, industry, or buildings associated with the settlement. |
 | | 294) and Foxton (Cambridgeshire) from the presence of foxes (Mills, p. |
 | | Simplex forms are represented by Lea (Derbyshire) and Eye (Cambridgeshire) from the Old English elements leah meaning variously "wood, woodland clearing or glade, later pasture, meadow" (Mills, p. |
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