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 ,^0 Devon Notes and Queries. numeVpus other pbtce-names in England commencing with Hart, si^h as Harton (in Durham, Yorkshire and Shrop- shire), HawiiugTon (in Derbyshire and Northumberland), Harting (in Sussex), Harty (in Kent), Hartlepool (in Durham), Hartley (in several counties), Hartwell (in Bucks and Northampton). The names Hartland, Harton (applied to the town) and Harty (applied to the Point, and to the Race off the Point) are more likely to have been derived from a Saxon settlement of Heortings, or men of the clan of Heort, although Leland's explanation, that the place was called Hartlani from the number of harts there, is not impossible. In Domesday Book Hertitone is the name given to the principal manor, corresponding to the Hertigtun of King Alfred's will, while in the Geld Inquest of 1083 Hertilande is the name applied to the Hundred. R. Pearse Chope. 48. Exeter Street Nomenclature (II, p. 28, par. 25). — Water Beer Street. — Among old weavers Beer meant nine- teen ends of yarn running all together out of the trough, the whole length of the cloth. Would this old street have been the place for the Beer of cloth to be laid in troughs of water, and so gave it the name of Water Beer Street ? There may have been some old woollen factories near. Lysons, in his History of Devon, traces through old deeds Fulling mills in Exeter as early as the reign of Edward I. I give this as a suggestion. Emily Skinner. 49. Exeter Street Nomenclature (II, p. 28, par. 25). — Usually in Devonshire names the termination heer represents the eleventh century herge. Thus Dunsberge is now Duns- beer, and B [ ? K] araberga, as to which enquiry was made (I, p. 209, par. 277) is now Karrowbeer. Cacheberge is now Kechbear and Aylesberge is Aylesbeare (see Trans. Devon Association, xxviii, 475) ; a herge or borough =b. barrow or hill (Maitland : Domesday and Beyond, p. 183). Water Beer Street should thus mean Water Hill Street. " We have full two hundred and fifty parishes, writes Professor Maitland, whose names end in burgh, borough or bury, and in many cases we see no sign in them of an ancient camp or of an exceptionally dense population." Apparently beer for borough is West- country. Oswald J. Rbichbl.