PLACE AND FIELD NAMES OF THE PARISH OF bTAVELEY. I9I 



Frechevilles were lords of the Manor, was part of Staveley Park. 

 This park extended over nearly half the area of the present parish, 

 and we are able partly to trace its boundaries by the names which 

 still remain, Park House, Park Gate, Rfd Lodge, and White Lodge ; 

 the two last are said to have been the residences of the park 

 keepers. Tradition also says that the term Loivgates owes its 

 origin to one of the park entrances ; if so, it will be derived from the 

 Anglo-Saxon geat, which means a gate. There is, however, the 

 possibility that the name Loivgates, applied to a street in Staveley 

 which forms part of the Chesterfield and Worksop road, may not 

 have reference to the park boundary, but to the road, having for 

 its origin the Danish word gata, which denotes a street or road. 

 Ttie words are nearly akin, and the idea of a passage or way 

 imderlies both, one being a passage through, the other a passage 

 along. Instances of the former use may be found in Briggat in 

 Leeds, and Biidgegate and Irongate in Derby, and in most of the 

 street names of York. 



Two rivers run through the parish, the Rother and the Doeiea. 

 According to Canon Taylor, the former is a corruption of 

 Rhuddwr, and means the red water. This is very likely, as the 

 waters used to be tinged with sediment from the ironstone which 

 abounded in the country drained by the stream. I say the waters 

 used to be tinged with sediment from the ironstone, because they 

 are so no longer, except in the neighbourhood of North Wingfield 

 and Pilsley where the river rises. Most of the iron has been 

 worked out, and the Rother, at Staveley, is now a black and 

 unsightly stream, the receptacle for the Chesterfield sewage and 

 the refuse from several large works. 



The Doeiea in all probability takes its name from the land 

 through which it flows. As we have already seen, a lea was an 

 open space where the cattle used to lie, thus Doeiea is the place 

 where the does lie, and the land gives its name to the stream 

 which flows through it. 



Norbriggs, a small hamlet, is a corruption of North bridge, now 

 a stone structure over the Doeiea. Though this is North East of 

 Staveley, the designation is correct, for it is North of Staveley on 



