Note 185 — NOTES ON PARISHES ROUND HORNCASTLE. (continued 5)

The next ford on the Witham, southward, was Kirkstead wharf, or more properly “wath,” which is still the local pronunciation; “wath,” meaning “ford,” corresponding to the Latin “vadum,” and related to our word to “wade,” or “ford,” a stream, &c. There is a village called Wath in Yorkshire, which is near a ford or causeway over a Marsh. (“Archit. Journ.” xiii, p. 75).