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| Name Ending |
| Introduction |
| -bec, beck |
| -burgh |
| -by, bi |
| -chester, caister |
| -den, dene |
| -don |
| -field |
| -firth |
| -ford |
| -hall |
| -ham |
| -ing |
| -kirk |
| -ley, lea, leigh |
| -minster |
| -scale |
| -sea, sey |
| -shaw, shawe |
| -stock, stoke, stow |
| -thwaite |
| -ton |
| -ville |
| -wick |
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New Light on Old Place Names
| | _THWAITE |
Basic meaning=cultivated area |
Place names using the term
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The Norse equivalent of ton, thwaite simply means a fenced-in area of cultivated land (what we today might call a field or paddock).
It could take the form of a clearing in wooded country, but would usually be away from the actual home as a fenced in garden beside the home would usually be called worth or worthy.
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