256 Place Names in Kirkpatrick-Durham. 



road or way. I noticed lately^ that this old Scottish use is found 

 also in the neighbourhood of Dartmoor, where Lydford, Litta- 

 ford, Longaford, Reddaford, do not apply to passages over 

 streams, but take their appellations from the old word ford = 

 a way. 



A small hamlet commonly known as Corsegate has an older 

 name, Liggatcheek, which preserves two obsolete uses. Liggate 

 is the old name for a gate. Jamieson defines it as " a gate so 

 hung that it may shut of itself " and the " cheek " of the liggate 

 is the side of it. 



Sillerhill is where siller or money was dug up. 



Shankfoot is a house at the foot of a shank. Jamieson 

 says that the shank of a hill is the projecting point of it. 



Shaw Brae is the brae which had a wood beside it. Shaw 

 is an old Scotch word. It was of old spelt S C H A W, and 

 meant a wood or grove. 



Butt Hill is a hill which was ploughed all round, but had a 

 centre portion unploughed. 



Waulk-mill-pool in the Water of Urr recalls the old word 

 waulk. The waulk-mill was where cloth was fulled or thickened. 



Boglebridge denotes the bridge where a bogle or ghost used 

 to be seen. [A curious fact regarding this ghost deserves to be 

 mentioned for the benefit of any who take an interest in such 

 matters. Many years ago, before the construction of the present 

 road which leads the traveller from Crocketford to Corsock, the 

 path crossed the water much higher up. It was only a hill 

 track, and at that time the water was crossed by stepping- 

 stones. One dark night, when the stream was in flood, a man — 

 I have been told he was a soldier— was making his way across 

 the stones when his foot slipped. He fell into the water and 

 was drowned. At intervals thereafter his ghost appeared, to 

 frighten the passers-by. But in course of time a new and better 

 road was made considerably further down the w ater, and a bridge 

 crossed at the point now known as Boglebridge. For the curious 

 point is that the ghost, finding that no one was coming to the 

 stepping-stones and therefore having no one to frighten, came 

 down from the old place to the new. It ceased to be seen at the 

 stepping-stones and made its appearances at the bridge. Hence 



4. Baring Gould : A Book of Dartmoor, p. 273. 



