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the chief river or stream, means simply the ivater, and the Irwell, 

 being the chief stream in Eossendale, would in early days be 

 called, "the ivater." Now, as Derplay "sends or throws" out 

 the water of the spring called the Ere-well, which is the source 

 of " the water " or river, now known as the Irwell, it might with 

 great propriety bear the name of Der PJay, (Derplay) The Water 

 Sprini/. 



Adjoining Derplay Hill, is Thievely Pike, or Pike Law, the 

 Beacon Height, or Beacon Hill, on the top of which are still to 

 be seen, the remains of an old beacon-fire pit or ring. The name 

 Pike was given to places where beacon-fires were raised, and is 

 synonymous with Peak, " the top of a hill or mountain ending 

 in a point." Thievely, is from the Saxon Heafod, heaved, the 

 elevated part, the top, and is synonymous with head. Thievely 

 Pike, then, is the Beacon on the top of the hill. 



On Heald Moor there is an old village called Heald, vernacular 

 Yeld, which gives, probably, its name to the Moor. This village 

 is on the old road which formed the chief communication between 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and ran along the " Haia 

 Dominicans," or the Lord's Dyke, still called the Old Dyke, which 

 formed the northern boundary of the Forest. The road bears 

 also the name of " Limers-gate," being the pack-horse road or 

 gate, along which lime was carried from Clitheroe, up to a recent 

 date, and was travelled, "not only by the common people, but by 

 the ecclesiastics and nobles of the laud." This old village, 

 in'obably, derives its name of Heald from the Saxon eald, old, 

 but some additional word seems necessaiy to comialete the sense. 

 Moor is from Mor, " a mountain, heathy, marshy land." Then 

 Heald Moor becomes the Old Moor, a name which is not very 

 distinctive. Falling back upon the vernacular pronunciation of 

 Yeld, barren, we have The barren moor, which would be a very 

 appropriate name. 



The next hill on our list is Todmorden Moor. Todmorden was, 

 until recently, called Tormorden, no doubt, from the very rocky 

 hill adjacent to the valley in which the town is situated ; Tor, 

 Celtic, meaning "a rock," Mor, "a moor," and den, (Anglo 

 Saxon), " a deep wooded valley." This would make Tormorden 

 the deep tvooded valley of the rocky moor. 



Tooter Hill follows, and is, we think, very propeily designated 

 by Dr. "Whitaker, " The Horn Blower's Hill." It was customary 

 to blow a horn on the top of a hill to give warning of danger, 

 and it was also an old practice to blow a horn from an elevated 

 spot, at a certain hour in the evening, probably, in continuance 

 of the Citrfew, or cover fire, of the Conquest, when all fires had 

 to be covered up, or extinguished at eight o'clock in the evening. 

 There is an elevation at Goodshawfold called Tooter, which, 

 there is very little doubt, had been used for this purpose. Tooter 



