The Place Names of the Liverpool District Or the History And Meaning of the Lo
The Place Names of the Liverpool District Or the History And Meaning of the Lo
Henry Harrison
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E. , 'Oswald's Tree '), in Shropshire. '"^ And Plummcr, the latest editor of ^ Baines, Lane, 1870, ii. 425. - Survey of 1320-1346, Chclham Roc, vol. Ixxiv. , 1868. ^ Modern Irish and Gaelic have the form uiaol (Welsh, tiioel), ao being a modern aphthong substituted for the older ae and oe, ■• Joyce, Irish Local Names Explained, 1884, p. 104. ^ Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Stevenson's ed. , 1S41, i. 177. 54 LIVERPOOL DISTRICT PLACE-NAMES Bede, equating Maserfelth with Oswestry, makes no mentio...n of the claims of the Lancashire Makerfield.^ The student of battle-sites should not, however, omit to note Mr. Browne's 'Pre-Norman Sculptured Stones in Lancashire, ' in the Transactiojis of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. V. , 1887. The Welsh name of Oswestry is Croes [cross] Oswallt. Melling. — The Domesday spelling is Melinge. At first sight we would appear to have here a pure Anglo-Saxon patronymic ; but there is little doubt that ' Melling ' is a Saxonisation of the name of the Norman, Vivian de Molines, to whom, shortly after the Conquest, Roger de Poictou granted a large tract of land in this district.
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