8b TEESDALE PL,VCE-NAMbS. 



Meldon Hall — in ruins. Middle Hill, A.-S. don^ and midde, 

 middle, or melu^ melo, meal, flour, and don^ hill. 



Plover Hall — the neighbourhood being poor land frequented 

 by peewits or plovers. 



Selaby Hall — A.-S. sel, sele, and ly^ both meaning dwelling, 

 seat, mansion, palace ; perhaps from A.-S. sahl^ willow. See By 

 and Selaby. 



Sledwick Hall — ? A.-S. sled, slced, a plain, slade, open country, 

 and wide, village. Hall of the village in the open country. 



Slutbarn Hall — perhaps from Suio-Goth. and Dan. slutt, de- 

 clivis, sloping down, quasi Steep-burn Hall ; Suio-Goth. slutte 

 lacke, a steep hill. 



Snotterton Hall — "anciently Cnaperton." How the change 

 has occurred Surtees cannot say. Cnaperton is from A.-S. cricep, 

 knoll, or Suio-Goth. hncep, ib. and titn. Snotterton, from A.-S. 

 and Suio-Goth. snoter, wise, prudent, eloquent, and tun. 



Startforth Hall — Stratforth, or Stratford, from A.-S. straet, 

 strat, street (on Eoman road). 



Stotley Hall — ? stot, a young bullock, or stotte, A.-S., hack, 

 jade, bad horse, and lea, pasture. 



Thorpe Hall — hall of the village, or Thorpe's Hall. 



Thwaite Hall — hall of the clearing, or Thwaite's Hall, 



Walker Hall— probably Walker's Hall. 



Wemmergill Hall — formerly Wormergill. Whitaker. From 

 A.-S. onn, a worm, serpent, or snake, blind worm, and ffill, a 

 glen — Hall of the Snake's Glen. 



Wycliffe Hall— hall at the cliff by the water. See Cliff. 



Ham. Am. TJm. 



Icel. heimr, home, abode, dwelling, village ; Moeso-Goth. haim ; 

 Ulf. heimos ; Suio-Goth. hem, domus, habitatio, domus propria ; 

 Dan. hjem ; Sw. hem. 



!N'orth Yorks. and Durham yam ; ^Northumberland and New- 

 castle Kyem ; Scot, hame ; Angl. home, in composition ham. 



0. H. G. haim ; Mod. Ger. heim, heimath, wohnung. 



"A.-S. ham. 1. a home, house, dwelling; 2. a village, town, 

 farm, property, domus, domicilium, tectum." Lye and BosworWi. 



