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beds of bracken and blackberry, or thickets of short birch, thorn, 

 and hazel, mingled with the fragrant raspberry and wild rose. 

 Their names often bear allusion to the native trees and shrubs that 

 clothe the slopes, or to the wild animals that formerly haunted those 

 solitudes, and such names still speak pleasantly to the imagination 

 of a sportsman, a naturalist, or a lover of the hills. Of such a 

 character are Harehope, Harthope, Hindhope; Swinhope (from 

 the wild boar;) Rowhope, (whether from the roe-deer or the 

 rowen-tree;) Birdhope, Hawkhope, Oakhope, Thornhope, Birk- 

 hope, Hazlehope. Some appear to be from personal names, as 

 Blenkins-hope, Kers-hope; written also without the hyphen, as, 

 Blenkinsope, Kersope. Weardale, Tynedale, and the Scottish 

 vales, on the other side of the Water-shed, are the centre of the 

 tract over which this term is found to prevail. It extends but 

 little into Yorkshire ; but curiously enough it reappears in Derby- 

 shire, where we find Glossop, Rushope, Ashope, and Hope wood- 

 lands. 



We must not omit here to mention some indefensible corrup- 

 tions of good old names, as Rodderup, properly Rotherhope, (A.S. 

 Hrythera-hope, vale of cattle;) Harrup, for Harehope; Heslop, 

 for Hazelhope; Howship, for Hows-hope, or perhaps House-hope ; 

 Herselop and Horsop, for Herdsel-hope or Hirsel-hope (from 

 herdsel, a sheep fold;) and Pontop, for Pont-hope. In all such 

 cases it is desirable to restore the final e, and to have recourse to 

 the use of the hyphen, whenever the latter becomes necessary to 

 prevent an undue coalition of consonants, tending to confuse the 

 pronunciation and obscure the meaning, especially when uttered 

 by strangers to our northern districts. 



We may here observe that the name of Hedgehope, the second 

 in elevation among the Cheviot hills, was thought by the late 

 Mr. Hedley to be derived from A.S. heah, high, and ^ope; but 

 such a combination could only form Heah*hope or High-hope. 

 It is more likely, I think, to have been simply Heddes-hope 

 (heafodes-hop), from the rounded head-like summit which over- 

 hangs the hope or hollow at the foot of the hill. 



Cleugh; Anglo-Saxon cleofa, fissura, a cleft or chasm. The 

 cleughs are narrow and often rugged chasms, for the most part 



