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Why should it follow that one should claim the same for Tottenham, Totnes, etc. -- although we might in some further cases?
Terence made the case for names associated with hilltop sites.
There is no reason why a Saxon origin should be "accepted". The "blinkered Christians" never looked deep into Celtic and pre-Celtic times; and if Totta and Tata were the name origins they had certainly got around a lot -- far too much to be believable.
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