TEESDAIE PLACE-NAMES. 97 



Stoop Hill — stoops, orstobs, posts, rails; A.-S. stoc, stod, stick, 

 stock, post; perhaps a steep Mil, causing to stoop, near Bail Grreen. 



Tate Hill — Tate's Hill. — ? personal name. 



Thorngarth Hill — Hll of tlie thorny enclosure. 



Timpton Hill — Mr. Eell is at a loss for its etymology; perhaps 

 a personal name. 



Towler Hill — 500 feet high ; near Pecknell, A towler was a 

 worker in wood, flax, or hemp. 



Viewing Hill — height 2097 feet ; from the prospect. 



Wether Hill — ^froni sheep ; a wether is a gelded tup. 



Whinston Hill — ^from the whin or basalt. 



"Whorley Hill — of the enclosed lea, or quarry lea. 



Wise Hill. 



HiLLINGTON. 



A.-S. tun or ton, of the Hillings, Hillingas, Kemble. 



HiNDON. 



Icel. hind; A.-S. '^Mnd; Engl, hind; Ger. hinde; Dan. hind, 

 the female of the hart." Cleasby. The hill of the hind; like 

 the Icel. hindar-fjall, the hinds' fell. The name occurs also in 

 the south of England. See Don. 



HoiLrtf. Plantation. 

 From A.-S. holegn, holen, holly, and Lat. plantatio. 



HoiM. HoiME. 



Icel. holmr, holmur, hblmi, a holm or small island, especially 

 in a bay, creek, lake, or river, even meadows on the shore with 

 ditches behind them. 



" Suio-Goth, holme, 1. insula; 2. a circular space enclosed by 

 posts for single combat; 3. a space, as it were an island, cut off 

 by hedging from the rest of a farm." Ihre. Dan. Ao^m; Sw. 

 holme; Ger. holm ; Dut. eiland, island, of droogte in eene rivier 

 (a dry place in a river) ; Flem. eiland. 



