WHIDDEN, WIDDEN. From gwyn, gwydn, widn, white. See also Winn.
GWYTHER. See Gwiator.
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HALE, HAILE. From hâl, hale, a moor; hâl, a hill; or hail, bountiful, great, also a river that falls into the sea. There is a place called Hale in Broadvale parish; and Hale is the name of a seaport and town in Penwith hundred.
HALLAMORE, HALLIMORE. From hâl-veor, the great hill; or hale-veor, the great moor.
HALLOWS. Lower derives this name from the parish of Hallow, co. Worcester; but it may sometimes be from Hallew, in Roche, Cornwall; from hallow, the moors.
HALS. From Als, formerly the name of a place in Burian; from als, a high cliff. (Price gives als, the sea-shore or cliff; als, alt, an ascent.) Hals says, "From Als, now Alse and Alsce, viz. lands towards or upon the sea-coast, was denominated John de Als, or from Bar-Als-ton in Devon, temp. Hen. I., and King Stephen, ancestor of the De Alses, formerly of Lelant, now Halses.......This family in Edward III.'s days rote their surname de Als, now Halse. (See Prince's Worthies of Devon upon Hals.)" Halsey may be the same name.
HALVOSE. From Halvose in Manaccan; from hâl-vose, the moor ditch.
HAMBLYN. See Hamley.
HAMELIN. As a Cornish name from hay-melyn, the
