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Examples : — 



Ereckholm — brecken, i.e. fern, or brock, badger, or broken, holm 

 or island. 



Grassbolm — grassy island. 



Hedgeholm — ? encircled by a hedge. 



Holmwath — ford of the island, or island at the ford. 



Holm, The — the island, in the river. 



Midgeholm — ?from many midges. A.-S. micg, mycg, a gnat, 

 a midge. 



Stack Holm — stoc, stdc, A.-S., stock or stake. Id. quod Stock- 

 holm. 



Sleightholme — from "the old Norse slettr, level. The Sleights 

 near Alford is the first level of the sea-marsh that skirts the 

 ■svold. Similarly, Sleights, near "Whitby, is a level space amid 

 converging valleys. "With slettr, of. A.-S. sled, or slced, a plain 

 (see Edmunds' Thames of Places). The Slade is a name fre- 

 quently found attached to a level tract of land." Streatfeild's 

 Lincolnshire and the Danes, p. 185 ; and holm, island. 



Swineholm and Swinholm — island, or waterside land, on which 

 swine were kept, or island lying obliquely. See Swindale. 



Thatchholme — ? from thoec, A.-S., thatch, thack, covering, 

 roof. Thatch to be obtained there. 



Turner Holm — ? Turner's holm or island. 



"Westholme — " is washed by a small rivulet which soon joins 

 Langley Beck, and falls into the Tees under Selaby." Surtees' 

 Hist, of Durham. I^ear "Winston Station, now a farm-house that 

 has known better days. 



Holt. See Hurst. 



HOLWICK. 



From A.-S. hole, a hole, hole-denu, a valley or dale; Icel. and 

 Suio-Goth. hoi, caverna, a hollow, the dwelling in the hollow 

 i.e., of the river valley; and wic, a dwelling. 



