PLACE AND FIELD NAMES OF THE PARISH OF STAVELEY. 197 



In Staveley there are Bate ridding, Wade ridding, several Water 

 riddings, and Rye riddings. The JFater riddings are low, damp 

 places ; the Rye riddings were, no doubt, clearings where r)'e was 

 grown. Bate ridding and IVade ridding may supply the names of 

 their sometime holders. 



Higgesier, or Uggester, an outlying farm, may possibly owe its 

 title to some Norse chieftain named Ugga, and so mean Ugga's 

 land ; but this is merely a suggestion. 



There is a well in the village, lately disused, which is supplied 

 by a spring, and goes by tiie name Spring well. Staveley people 

 of the last geneiation had a saying to the effect that if a person 

 once drank of the water from the spring well, he would never 

 afterwards settle down in any other place. 



There is also a spring, in a field a short distance from the 

 village, called Peter well. It may have been one of the Holy 

 wells of Derbyshire, many of which were dedicated to the saints 

 whose names they bear, e.g., Becket well in Derby, and St. Ann's 

 well in Nottingham. 



