626 RsroET— 1893. 



forth ' is the method he had to use to tell who he was. That would go 

 back about 150 years. 



Black] ey is a large parish, which has recently been absorbed in 

 Manchester, and is consequently rapidly losing its individuality. About 

 half of the parish has belonged geographically to Manchester for several 

 years, but the rest has been cut off by a valley called Boggart Hole 

 Clough, to which several traditions are attached, recorded in Roby's 

 ' Traditions of Lancashire ' and Bamford's ' Walk.' This portion has been 

 until very recently a remarkably isolated and self-contained place, 

 although within hearing of the Manchester town-hall clock. Many of 

 the inhabitants have lived for generations in the place. One family 

 traces its pedigree to John of Gaunt, and claims kindred with Hugh 

 Oldham, Bishop of Exeter in 1515. The dialect of Blackley is akin to 

 that of Middleton and Rhodes, approaching that of Rochdale, but differ- 

 ing from Oldham. There are no monuments or other remains of ancient 

 culture. 



Lincolnshire. 



Places By -whom suggested 



Isle of Axholme Dr. Beddoe. 



In north-east Lincolnshire there is a Danish element. 



In the village of Denton there is a curious sort of tribe-family of the 

 ScofiBelds, the result, it is supposed, of a long sequence of marrying 

 among themselves. When Lady Welby came to live there there were 

 sixteen families of the name, now reduced to twelve. 



Derby. 



Places By whom suggested 



Edale Mr. H. T. Crofton. 



Castleton ....... „ „ 



LuUington Ecv. E. H. Clutterbuck, F.S.A. 



In LuUington, near Barton-on-Trent, Mr. Clutterbuck was formerly 

 curate, and was struck by the association of a few families ; there were 

 but about three or four family names (Coates, Welton, and Arsbrook) 

 that really belonged to the place. 



Cheshire. 



Places By whom suggested 



Bebington Mr. E. W. Cox. 



Flash Dr. Beddoe. 



Plash is a village at the junction of Cheshire, Derbyshire, and 

 Staffordshire, formerly the haunt of thieves and gipsies. ' Flash ' lan- 

 guage is said to have been coined there. 



Staffordshire. 



Places By whom suggested 



Biddulph Moor Dr. J. T. Arlidge. 



Goldsitch ,, „ 



Dr. Arlidge, of Stoke-upon-Trent, remarks that the lapse of the last 

 twenty or thirty years has obliterated almost all ethnological and ethno- 

 graphical features in that part of Staffordshire by the vastly increased 

 facilities for removal from native soil, by the extension of education, 



