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Excerpt from A Glossary of the Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex
The names of places within the county illustrate also the retention of purely British or Celtic words; thus 136, or Ease, (a river, ) is retained in North Ease and South Ease, without admixture; whilst in others, such as Easebourne, Isfield, &c., it is still retained at the beginning of the name, having appended to it a Saxon termination and the British Glyn, a vale, is preserved in the modem name, Glynde. And although the names of many places'are solely Saxon, as Ardingly, Asbburnlzam, Beckley, Ber wick, Bolney, Barton, Danton, Litlington, &c.; yet the names of other places, as Cuckfield, from Goa (british) Princeps., Penhurst, from Pen (british), a head, &c., shew that the British names were not unfrequently retained by the Saxons, who added some designation from their own language applicable to the particular locality.
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