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Ledder Howe — from A.-S. lether, leder, leather ; perhaps a 

 lether-wyrhta, or currier or tanner had lived on this howe. 



MiUstone Howe HiU— Millstone Hill-hill ! 



Scale Howe "Wood — ? scala, shales, scale, A.-S., shell, sceala, 

 A.S., scales, shells ; shaly hill wood. 



TJpman Howe — ? up, upp, A.-S,, exalted, high ; or TJpman's 

 HiU. 



Prudhoe, Ingoe, Swinhoe, Sandhoe near Corhridge on the 

 Tyne, in Northumherland, Coxhoe, Kelloe, and Westoe, in 

 Durham. 



HOWLSWOETH. 



From A.-S. hoi, hollow, and worth, a separated piece of land, 

 nearly surrounded by water. 



Houlbec, in Normandy, is the burn in a hollow. Holbeck, 

 Yorkshire. 



HtTMBLETON. 



From humble Engl., and tiin A*-S., or Icel. humall, the hop, or 

 Suio-Goth. humla, Fucus silvestris, drone. 

 Humbleton Hill near Sunderland, and near Wooler. 



HUNGEEKNOWIE. 



From A.-S. hunger, hunger, and cnoll, a knoll, hill, top, cop, 

 summit. Bosworth. Hunger, or Hunger Hills, is a common 

 name in England. Hungerborg is a common name in Denmark, 

 and Hunger was a personal name among the Danes. See Streat- 

 feild's Lincolnshire and the Danes. See Hungry. 



Htjnget. 



" Local epithet bestowed upon Robinson's farmstead on ac- 

 count of the barrenness of his land." Bell. It is not far from 

 Unthank. Rowton Beck runs between them. 



