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    No luck on the Plum Pudding front as yet, there is this...

    "PLACE NAMES IN KENT.
    BY
    CANON J. W. HORSLEY,
    Late Vicar of Detling. "


    "Fright or Frith. — "A thin, scrubby wood."
    So the Fright Woods near Bedgebury. And I
    learned to skate as a boy at the Fright Farm on
    Dover Castle Hill. This may account for Frith
    by Newnham, and possibly also for Frittenden. "

    "Shepherdswell, near Dover, has nothing to
    do with a shepherd or a well ; but is an early
    corruption of Sibertswalt, as it appears in
    Domesday, i.e., the wood of Sibert. The phonetic
    changes are found in later charters and wills,
    Sybersysw'eld in 1474, Sybberdiswold 1484, Ship-
    riswold 1501, Shepswold 150G, and Sheperters-
    wold in 1522. Suabert, or Sieberht, was a great
    Saxon thane, and granted land in Sturgeth
    (Sturry) and Bodesham to St. Domneva's new
    Minster in Thanet, while in a charter of 814 we
    read of Selebertincg-lond. Great Chart was
    originally Selebert's Chart. Sibbcrtston (or
    Selebertston) was a sub-manor in Chilluim, and
    there is still the Hundred of Sebrittenden or
    Sclcbertsden in what was the old Lathe of Wye."

    http://www.archive.org/stream/placenamesinkent00hors/placenamesinkent00hors_djvu.txt

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