TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. lOl 



this is not essential. It is also defined as " a narrow valley, 

 hemmed in at the top, there being no outlet." Carr-Ellison, 

 Trans. Tyneside Clnb, vol. ii., p. 98. 



The definitions of the late Mr. Carr-Ellison and Brockett as 

 applied to Hopes cf the JN'orth of England and the Scottish 

 borders, and also Jamieson's in respect to inland Hopes in the 

 South of Scotland, are all that can be desired. Sofe, commonly 

 a small upland dale, signifies also, in some localities, a hill, and 

 so piay be classed with other words having contrary meanings, as 

 combe, cop, dyke, how, &c. Sofe^ or Tioop^ and combe, or cwm, 

 both imply a curved form, either concave or convex. 



Again, it will be observed that hope, like wich, is applied to 

 seaside as well as to inland localities, and both have A.-S. 

 and Icelandic derivations. The word hope is not in the Celtic 

 tongues, and only in barbarous Latin. 



Examples : — 



Hope — a small dale. 



Burnhope — ^hope, with a burn running down it. The personal 

 names of Burn up — op — ip — in Newcastle, are from the same. 



Eggleshope — ^hope of Egl, a chief, or eglwys, "Wei., a church. 



Harthope — ^hope of the hart or stag. 



Hudshope — TJdda's Hope; or Huts-hope rr: valley of huts, 

 Hudgill, near Alston. Bell. 



Ireshope Moor — "The occurrence of ir, or ire, in conjunction 

 with — thorp, — hy, or — stead, leads to the supposition that 

 such places were the sites of the worship of Er or Ir, the Mars 

 of the Saxons and Angles." Edmunds. Earsdon, near Whitley, 

 is an example of Ir, with 'suffix, don, a hill, if not from earn, 

 A.-S., eagle. 



Middlehope. 



Swinhopc — h. of the swine; or hope extending obliquely uphill. 



"Westernhope. 



' ' All the valleys of the "Wear above Wolsingham are called 

 hopes. Sometimes hum is added to their names, and one or two 

 little hill -side branches are termed burns, which word is used 

 lower down the Wear. 



" Eyhope and Tunstalhope, near Sunderland." Howse. 



