38 DERBYSHIRE PLACE-NAMES. 



would seem that this postfix is from the A.S. leg, leag, lea, leah, lag, lah 

 — a meadow, a field, land. Barlow may therefore be the bear or corn 

 hill, or field, i.e., the hill or the field on which the corn was stacked, or 

 the bush hill or field, or the barred or fenced hill, barrow, or field, or 

 Bear's hill, barrow, or field. 



BaiTOW. — (D.D.B. Bareuue, Barvve.) — A.S. bearo, bearu — a barrow, a high 

 or hilly place, a grove, wood, a hill covered with wood. 



Barrowcote. — (D.D.B. Beruerdescote.) — For Barrow see above. The 

 final syllable is A.S. cote, cyte — a cot, a cottage ; — the cottage in the 

 grove, or on the hilly place or barrow. 



Barrowcote or Bearwardscote. — (D.D.B. Bereuuardescote.) — For 

 derivation, see above. 



Barrow-on-Trent. — (D.D.B. Bareuue.) — For Barrow see above. For 

 the adjunct see Trent, river, infra. 



Barton Blount. — (D.D.B. Barctvne.) — The initial syllable of the first 

 component of this name is from the A.S. bere — barley, from beran— to 

 bear, produce, bring forth. The postfix is from the A.S. tun — a town. 

 A barton was originally the enclosure for the barley, or produce, or bear 

 of the land, and signified simply the rickyard, or the bear town. The 

 adjunct is a Norman personal name appended to the Saxon name of the 

 town when the town became the seat of the Norman lord. In the time of 

 Richard the Second, the representative of the family spelt his name Blunt 

 —Walter le Blunt. 



Baslow. — (D.D.B. Basselau.) — C. bais — a low place, flats, shallows, and 

 A.S. hleew, hlaw, low — a hill, an elevation, a rising tract of ground, also 

 a heap, grave, barrow, tumulus ; — the hill, or grave, or tumulus on the 

 flats, or low place. 



Batnam Gate. — This is an old Roman Road between Peak Forest and 

 Buxton. The initial syllable is from the A.S. basth— a bath. The post- 

 fix is the A.S. .ham — a home, dwelling, village. The adjunct is from the 

 A.S. geat, gat — a gate, or N. gata — a road or street. The road of the 

 bath village. 



Beard. — A.S. beard — a hawk, a buzzard. This place-name was probably 

 originally a compound word, the terminal member being now lost. 



Beauchief. — Pilkington states that Beauchief derives its name from the 

 Abbey de Bello Capite or Beauchief, a Monastery of Premonstratensian 

 or white canons. 



Beeley. — (D.D.B. Begelie.) — A.S. bige, byge — a turning, corner, bending, 

 angle, bay, and A.S. leg, leag, lea, leah, lag, lah — a meadow, a field, 

 land ;— the bent field or the field on the bend. 



Beighton-— (D.D.B. Bectune, Bectvne.) — The initial syllable is probably 

 from A.S. bige, byge — a turning, corner, bending, angle, bay, or if the 



