[Answered] What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?
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Say there's a forest, but there's a small cleared area where a family can build a place to live. What's the geographical term for that?
Edit: The word I was looking for was a clearing. A glen was suggested as well, but that is a space between rolling hills, while the space I was thinking of was on flat land.
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Old English was 'den'. Place names ending in 'den' or 'don' were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.
... London?
Apparently not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_London#Proposed_etymologies