100 mesdale place-names. 



Hope, 



Icel. " Hop (A.-S. libp^ Scot. 7iope=liaven, perhaps connected 

 with A.-S. libf, Engl, lioop^ with reference to a curved or circu- 

 lar form), a small land-locked bay or inlet of the sea, salt at 

 high, fresh at low, tide." Cleasby. A place of water near the 

 sea, especially such as is formed by a stream falling out. 



" In A.-S. Ao^, hoppe, is a hoop, circle, collar, company," 

 Bosworth ; and ^^ho^J, hope, spes," Lye. 



*' -2op, in Suio-Goth., is a separated portion of land. Probably 

 the same word as Barb. Lat. hola, with a somewhat different 

 application, a surrounded, separated place, for cultivation. 



'■^ Sope, 1. A sloping hollow between two hills, or the hollow 

 that forms two ridges on one hill. Hope occurs in the names of 

 many places in the south of Scotland. Any sloping plain be- 

 tween the ridges of mountains." Jonsson. '■'•Hope, a small bay. 

 2. a haven. Lothian. Hope-head, the head of a hope, or of a. 

 deep and pretty wide glen among the hills, which meet and 

 sweep round the upper end." Jamieson. '■'■Hope. 3. a valley 

 also a hill. North." HaUiwell. 



'■'• Hofe, the head of a vale, frequently near the source of a 

 stream ; a narrow valley ; sloping hollow between hills, often 

 confined to a vale without a thoroughfare. Sometimes it means 

 a hill, or rather a depression on the top of a hill. The word 

 enters into the composition of several local appellations in the 

 northern counties." Brockett. 



" Hope is corrupted from liwpp, a sloping place between hills." 

 Edmunds. 



The word liwpp, is effort, push, in Spurrell ; is not in Bosworth. 



" Hope is not in Gael., Manx, or Corn. 



^'- Hope, a short upland dale, such as are generally situated 

 near the head of a principal dale, and contain frequently the 

 tributary burn. The hopes are much shorter than dales, and 

 wider than gills. They are lost in most instances ere long in 

 the hill sides, but during their short extent form pastoral re- 

 cesses of great beauty, and dear to all the natives of those wild 

 tracts. They are most frequently watered by a rapid burn, but 



