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payment arising out of three carucates of land in " Kemesdayll 

 juxta Greneovve " had been withheld from the king by the act 

 of Robert de Mennell, grandfather to Nicholas de Mennell (the 

 regnant baron) from the time of King John. Atkinson argues 

 that " when we meet with the two names ' Engilby juxta 

 Grenehowe ' and 'Kemesdayll juxta Grenehowe,' we are 

 justified in assuming (at least in inferring), first, that Camise- 

 dale has a like juxta-position to Greenhow that Ingleby has 



; and second, that the Greenhow named must have 



been conspicuous if an object, well known if a ' vill.' " As 

 Greenhow is not mentioned in Domesday it is clear that there 

 was no vill of Greenhow, areal or territorial, or in the group of 

 houses sense at that time, and in the Inquest list of ninety- 

 seven viJlce in the Langbargh Wapentake " Engilby juxta 

 Greneowe is named, but Greneowe itself is only named as a 

 place, or, more likely, an object." But a century before the 

 date of the Inquest there is mention of a " territorium de 

 Grenehou." In the time of King Edward III. we find the 

 term "villa" applied to Greenhow. But it is evident that as 

 late as 1285 there was a clear distinction between Kemesdayll 

 and Grenehowe. Atkinson goes on to argue that the name 

 " Greenhow " may probably not be derived from the " How 

 Hill " in the present township of Greenhov.', which hill he 

 belittles much more than is just, but rather from the feature made 

 by the steep scarp of the moor bank in this locality — that in fact, 

 the word was originally " Greenhaugh." But he acknowledges 

 that he has no real evidence for his contention, although the 

 name is so spelled at a somewhat late date in the Ingleby 

 Register. He concludes, '' The inference seems to me to be not 

 only natural, or even inevitable, but overwhelmingly convincing, 

 that the name Greenhow may eftectively be described as an 

 interloping usurper, claiming and arrogating to itself by a series 

 of successive encroachments the right of distinguishing the 

 lands, the territorial area, that had been previously called by the 

 name Camisedale, or the later Kemesdale," and he continues, 

 " In his introduction to the Ingleby Greenhow Registers, Mr. 

 Hawell remarks, at page v., that Greenhow is not mentioned in 

 Domesday, ' but may be represented by Camisedale.' As is 

 seen by what I have written above, I am disposed to go a great 

 deal further than that, and indeed to assert my view that 

 Camisedale must be represented by Greenhow." His general 

 conclusion is that Greenhow was originally the name of an 

 object rather than of a place. " After a space, we see the name 

 of the object beginning to be applied with an areal or territorial 

 sense, and that the area or territory implied is identifiable with 



