These were quickly put down; scores of still more singular names might be collected in every parish.

It is the meadows and pastures which usually bear these designations; the ploughed fields are often only known by their acreage, as the Ten Acre Piece, or the Twelve Acres.

Some of them are undoubtedly the personal names of former owners.

But in others ancient customs, allusions to traditions, fragments of history, or of languages now extinct, may survive.
[3] See Notes.
There was a meadow where deep trenches could be traced, green now, but clearly once a moat, but there was not even a tradition about it.

On the Downs overlooking the Idovers was an earthwork or entrenchment, of which no one knew anything.