74 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



that it is from gaa, to go, as Lat. iter from eo, itum. id. For 

 what is a way but the course that one holds in going or travel- 

 ling. Gating has a meaning different in Scotland from that in 

 Yorkshire. It suggests the idea of gazing." Jamieson. 



Gate is common in Yorkshire and Durham, and means the 

 strset, or road to a place. It is applied to a bar or entrance to a 

 place, but the word really means the road itself ; as Lingwell 

 Gate, Lofthouse Gate, Hunsgate, and Hounds Gate. Batty's Hist, 

 of Rothwell. Gatings or gatins are roads left through woods 

 for the convenience of leading timber, &c. "Get agate," a com- 

 mon Yorkshire expression for 'get on,' be quick, start, begin 

 your work, &c. 



Westgate, Newgate, &c , are common names in English towns, 



Eastgate and "Westgate were in former times entrances to the 

 deer park of the Bishop of Durham in Upper Weardale. 



" The town gate''' is a common name for the principal road or 

 street through a village or small town. A gate, five or more 

 barred, is the entrance into a field or common ; a garden gate. 



GataTiorn, in Suio-Goth.=the corner of a street; similarly we 

 have Woodhorn, near I*^ewbiggin-by-the-Sea,^The Newbiggin 

 or building by the horn or corner of the wood. 



Gate is Icel., Scand., Suio.-Goth., H. and L. Ger., and A.-S., 

 and occurs also in Gael, and Corn. 



Examples : — 



Bace Gate Hill — from hais, shallows or flats, or Bace's or 

 Eace's Gate. Race is not an uncommon name in Teesdale and 

 "Weardale (Bell). Bais is not in Bosworth ; but in Spurrell's 

 Wei. Diet., lais, is flats, shallows. 



Banks Gate — gate or way of the banks, or Banks's Gate ; the 

 possessive s is commonly omitted in Yorkshire. 



Dent Gate — Dent's Gate. 



Green Gates — lanes or roads. 



l^arrowgate Beacon — h. of the narrow way. 



Stanhope Gate- — gate or way to the Stony-hope, or Stanhope. 



TJpgate — a way up hill. 



Broadley's Gate — from proper name. 



