Origin
BANTA : (Gaelic.) Local. From Beaunta, hills, mountains.
BONAR : Local. A town in Scotland; a chain of hills; hills lor tillage; also, the hill of slaughter. Cornish British, Bonar, the house of slaughter.
CLAY : Local. A town of France in Seine. A lake on the isle of Lewis, Scotland. Clee, hills in Wales. Oh, left-handed, a place lying to the left, in relation to another place. Cledh, cloid, and cladd, in the Gaelic, Welsh, and British, signify a ditch, a trench, a wall; cladh, a church-yard; cledd, Welsh, a sword; Gaelic, claiheamb, from which we have Cloymore, a large sword. The same word in Welsh and Gaelic that signifies a river is often applied to a sword, from their resemblance in glittering brightness.
CLOUGH : (Anglo-Saxon) Local. A small valley between hills, a breach; from the past of the Anglo-Saxon participle cleofian, to cleave, divide.
COOMBS : (Cor. Br.) A place between hills, a valley; in the Welsh, Cum.
CORY : Correy, local, a town in Scotland. The word conveys the idea of roundness, bending, turning, the winding of a stream. Gaelic, car; Welsh, cor, a circle, a dell, a glen; caire, a circular hollow surrounded by hills.
DUNIPACE : Local. From the Latin Duni-pacis, hills of peace.
DUNLEVY : (Cor. Br. and Gaelic.) Local. From Dun, a hill, ley, green, and vy, a river or stream the green hills by the river. Dunlamh or Dunlavy, in Gaelic, signifies the strong-handed. Dunalamhas, mh having the sound of v, is the hill or castle of warriors.
DUTTON : Local. A village in Cheshire, England, and may have several derivations. Dut-ton, i.e., Dutch-town. Duton, from Du, Cor. Br., side, and ton, the same as dun, a hill, that is, the side of the hill; or Du-ton, the two hills, from Du, two, and ton, a hill. Dhu-ton, Gaelic and Welsh, the black hill.
FAAL : (Gaelic.) A rocky place; Fells, Saxon, crags, barren and stony hills. Fates has the same signification. Falaise, a town in France, takes its name from the rocks which surround it.
HOPE : Local. The side of a hill, or low ground between hills.
KILGOUR : (Gaelic.) Local. The ancient name of a parish in Fifeshire, Scotland, so called from kill, a church, and gour, a hill - the church on the hill, or surrounded by hills.
MARVEN : Gaelic, Morven, a ridge of very high hills.
ROSS : (Gaelic) Local. A shire of Scotland. Ros, a peninsula, an isthmus, a promontory. Rhos, in Welsh, is a moor, a bog. Ros, in Cor. Br., is a mountain, a meadow, a common. Rose and Rosh signify a valley or dale between hills.
SEWALL : Probably from sea and wall, a structure of stone or other materials intended for a defense or security against the sea. This name, though seemingly local, may have various significations; suil, in the Gaelic, is a willow; suail, small, inconsiderable. Su, south, and wold, wald, wild, well, an uncultivated place, a wood, a plain, a lawn, hills without wood: Suwold, Suwall, Suwell.
SEWELL : Probably from sea and wall, a structure of stone or other materials intended for a defense or security against the sea. This name, though seemingly local, may have various significations; suil, in the Gaelic, is a willow; suail, small, inconsiderable. Su, south, and wold, wald, wild, well, an uncultivated place, a wood, a plain, a lawn, hills without wood: Suwold, Suwall, Suwell.
SLADE : Local. A long flat piece or slip of ground between hills.
STANHOPE : Local. From the town of Stanhope, in the bishopric of Durham, England. From stan, stone, and hope, the side of a hill, or low ground amid hills.
TOWERS : Peels, and Castles, were places of defense. Tower is derived from tor, Gaelic and Saxon, French tour, Welsh, twr, a heap or pile, applied to conical hills, and to round buildings erected for strength or security.
VALE : Local. Low land between hills, a valley.
WOOLLEY : Local. Wold-ley, uncultivated lands, hills without wood.
Origin of name provided by Jean Tosti
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