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is from the Dutch or low German toeten, " to blow the horn," 

 hence the outlook or watchinrj hill was called the Tooter Hill, 



Hogshead Law is the (wild) Hogs Hill. jHere head and lau- are 

 nearly synonymous, head meaning " an elevated place," and law 

 •' a rising ground, a hill." As domestic hogs were not allowed 

 to run in the forest without rings in their snouts, to prevent them 

 rooting, is it possible that this hiU was allowed them without the 

 rings ? or must we take the more direct etymology, viz : that 

 wild hogs were found here ? 



Top of Leach is the highest point in the Forest. Leach or 

 Letch means '*a long narrow swamp, in which water moves 

 slowly." The meaning then is, the top of the swamp, which Top 

 of Leach still is to this day. 



Coupe Law, is from Cow-Hope-Law, which is the original name. 

 Ilo2)e is " a sloping plain between ridges of hills," which is quite 

 descriptive of the Cow Hope. Coupe Law, then is, The Cow 

 Hope Hill. So much then, for the ring of hills forming the 

 general boundary of the forest. 



In the reign of Edward the II, in 1311, there were in the 

 forest eleven Cowpastures, called Vaccaries, from the Latin vacca, 

 a cow. By the 12th Ed. IV, 1472, Wolfenden and Crawshaw 

 Vaccaries had acquired the addition of the term Bothe or Both, 

 from the Gaelic Celtic hnith or both, " a hut, tent, booth, cabin, 

 house," and " to lodge for the night ;" hence, a temporary dwel- 

 ling, which the booths would primarily be. To both was now 

 joined the word shagh or shaw, in Dunnockshaw, Godshagh and 

 Crawshawbooth, from the Saxon scua, scuwa, " a thicket, a shady 

 place, a bushy place, a small wood." 



Vaccary and booth afterwards became coextensive and con- 

 vertible terms. The Booth of Dunnockshaw derives its name 

 from dun, " a hill-fort, a hiU," and the Gaelic knock, a small hill 

 or hillock, and shaw, a wood. The knock is one of a series of 

 small hills called the Hart Hills from the Saxon heart " a stag, 

 the male of the red deer, in the sixth year." These small hills 

 are presumed to have got their names from their being the 

 frequent resort of the Hart. 



The foiu- Booths, Gambleside, Love Clough, Goodshaw and 

 Crawshawbooth form the Township of Higlaer Booths. The 

 highest booth in Higher Booths is Gambleside, spelt in the 

 earhest documents Gamelsheved, hterally " the crooked height or 

 hill head," from the Celtic (both W. and Ir.) cam, crooked. 

 From this root we have Morcawibay The crooked piece of wood 

 on which butchers hang their meat is called a gamble, camel or 

 cambril. Gambleside was probably so called from the crooked 

 outline of the estate which bears that name. 



The next booth in the Township is Love Clough, spelt in the 

 old lists Luffeclogh, Lufclough, Lafclugh ; luf or luf being 



