Show endy 71 a y staple ping iu in ango anglo saxon the word 9 or denoted a post or pillar of wood or stone lu in local names li it has various significations such posts t by or pillars were often erected to mark ali places where markets were held or one bi abere merchandise could be exposed for yin sale such probably were Dnn Drin staple lily in a market on the chalk Y of ct downs and barnstaple barnstable Barn staple in devon irry ary sometimes timea the was a post mark ual aal ing the place of if the hundred bundred moots 1 in wo we have hundreds called add and Thur in essex and oue one called t cai as staple in busses there are arc seven places called stapleton Staple tou but as none of them is nta market town they were probably an merely farmsteads marked by a post ake aig ono of them called Staple dun in domes dorcos ill aa day being a hill with a post so of the abo 04 0 nino nine Staple fords none is a marked town rc ald and thoy they were probably fords marked ed ai or protected by piles or posts stal to g bridge dorset called Staple bridge in gi 1314 Dornes day was probably a trestle bridge in kent must have taken ian y its name from a white pillar erected 31 either for a or as a guide to j ships entering thu the harbor or to which boats boata could bo be moored Staple staplehurst hurst must hino have been am a wood marked by a post or like stockwith Stock with a wood where stumps or posts were left standing notes and queries |