Keith Briggs wrote:-
> I have noted these Hampshire and Dorset field-names in the Christchurch Priory Cartulary (ed. Hanna 2007).
> The element comp (or camp) appears to be that much written about by Gelling (e.g. Signposts 75ff),
> but is assumed by her to occur mostly in Kent and Sussex, and is not supposed to be so common. ...
Perhaps from Latin "campus" = 'field' transferring from Roman Latin to the local Celtic language (unless the areas' rural population had by then shifted language from Celtic to Vulgar Latin), and from there to Anglo-Saxon, perhaps by extracting it from placenames; compare English "glen" from Gaelic, likely by extracting it from names of valleys in Scotland.
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