P.s. another nice name--Trowlers Gill, W.Yorks: 'the troll's arse ravine', referring to a great bank in the ravine=a troll turned to stone?!
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A few more: Hescombe (Somerset), Hascombe (Surrey), Hessenford (Cornwall) = 'the witch's valley' & 'the witches' ford'! (OE hægtesse=witch)
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Also Haswell (Durham)+Hassall (Cheshire): 'the witch's well', 'witch's nook'. Bosworth-Toller on OE hægtesse 'witch': http://www.bosworthtoller.com/017878
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Another poss Tolkien source: do Ents derive partly from fighting trees in Welsh poem Cad Goddeu? In support, Tolkien def owned copy of text!
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Tolkien bought edition of Book of Taliesin, in which poem appears, in 1922--now held at English Faculty Library at Oxford...
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