Editing Bushey (section)

==Etymology==
Bushey is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 in the form ''Bissei''. Although there has been some debate,<ref>An early theory in Reverend J. B. Johnstone's ''The Place-Names of England and Wales'' (London: Murray, 1915) states that it may have meant "Byssa's Isle", and that it started life as a lake-village surrounded by marshes, streams and lakes. It has also been suggested that the name was influenced by Old French ''boisseie'', meaning a 'place covered with wood'. The latter theory could prove more apt, as the town is located in the valleys which extend southwards from the [[Chiltern Hills]], which were once covered in dense forests of [[oak]], [[elm]], [[Fraxinus|ash]], [[hazel]] and [[juniper]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}</ref> modern, scholarly commentary has concluded that the name originated as a [[compound noun|compound]] of the [[Old English]] words ''bysc'' ('bush, thicket') and ''hæg'' ('enclosure'). Thus it once meant 'enclosure made of bushes'.<ref>''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'', ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. ''Bushey''.</ref>