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Excerpt from Surrey Etymologies, Vol. 2: Tandridge Hundred; Oxted Barrow green, the principal residence in the parish, has been supposed to take its name from a barrow. At Oxted, says Manning,1 is a very large barrow or tumulus, from which a capital house, called Barrow Green, takes its name; and in the Index he tells us that this barrow was thrown up by the Danes. A careful ex amination of the so-called barrow, made under the direc tion of the late Mr. J. Wickham Flower, has proved conclusively that it is nothing but a natural hill; and, disagreeable as it is to upset long-cherished traditions, we must seek for the origin of the name from some other source, since it is not reasonable to imagine that any place would take its name from a supposed resemblance to a barrow. I do not find the name earlier than a Court Roll of 20 Edw. IV., where it occurs as Barowes tene ment, unless Berewe, -in a Court Roll of the 14th year of that king, be the same place. In a Rental of 1568 it occurs as Barogrene, in a Survey of the Manor of 1576 as Barowe Grene, in a Rental of 1577 as Barew Grene, and in a Rental of about the same date as Barrowe grene. The origin of it is not, I think, difficult to find. A district in the parish was called the Borough, or, as it is written in a Deed of 12 Rio. II., The Bergh. Men tion is there made of land at the Bergh lying between the common called the Bergh and land of Rauf at Bour; and so Borough Green, which was the piece of waste in this district, became corrupted by an easy process into Barrow Green, and the singular conical-shaped hill at once gave plausibility to the idea of a barrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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