[449] Fraser, J.B., Persia, p. 132.
[450] According to Johnston, Felixstowe was the church of St. Felix of Walton, sometimes said to be stow of Felix, first bishop of East Anglia. “But this does not agree with the form in 1318 Filthstowe which might be ‘filth place,’ place full of dirt or foulness. This is not likely” (p. 259).
[451] Cf. Holy Wells.
[452] The numerous British Cranbrooks and Cranbournes are assumed to have been the haunts of cranes.
[453] Allcroft, A. Hadrian, Earthwork of England, p. 462.
[454] Johnson, W., Folk Memory, p. 321.
[455] Domesday Branchtrea, later Branktry. “This must be ’tree of Branc,’ the same name as in Branksome (Bournemouth), Branxton (Coldstream), and Branxholm (Hawick).”—Johnston, J. B., Place-names of England and Wales, p. 165.
[456] A Guide to the Antiquities of the Iron Age (Brit. Museum), p. 35.
[457] Ep in old Breton meant horse; cf. Origines Celticæ, i., 373, 380, 381.
[458] Celtic Britain, p. 229.