Excerpt from Windsor Castle: With a Description of the Park, Town, and Neighbourhood Henry III. The derivation is more than doubtful. The name was applied originally to Old Windsor only, and has, 'most probably, some connexion with the not very distant Windlesham, 'which is pro nounced 'winsham.' In anglo-saxon, 'windle' is a willow, and 'ofer' is a Shore; but'windle' may refer to the winding course Of the Thames, and 'ofer' may have been softened into 'oure, ' and eventually 'or.' There is a river or brook called the Windles, which runs into the Thames at Chertsey; but Chertsey is too far from Windsor to allow Of the connexion which Harrison, in the 'description Of Britain' prefixed to his edition Of Hollinshead, would appear to attempt. AS we shall see a little farther on, no physical feature of the modern Windsor can be taken into account in stating these questions, because, though the name is borrowed from the neighbouring parish, the town and the castle really stand in Clewer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.