TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 117 



Examples : — 



Bedekirk — f rom hed, prayer, and circ, A.-S., church; or church 

 dedicated to the Yenerable Bede. " An old disused chapel called 

 Bedekirk adjoins the top of Gallowgate where the town of Mar- 

 wood once stood." Longstaffe's Eichmondshire. 



Kirkber — church house. See Bee. 



Eomaldkirk — ''Church of St. Eomualdus, to whom it was 

 dedicated at the latter part at least of the Saxon era ; formerly 

 it was written Eumoldescherce." Dr. "Whitaker. 



St. Romualdus or Eomald, to whom the 7 th of February was 

 dedicated, ' ' was of the noble family of the Onesti of Ravenna, 

 born about a.d. 907, died in 1027. He was remarkable for 

 purity of life, self-devotion, and the reforms he established in 

 the monasteries of Italy." Some disciple of his had probably 

 penetrated to Upper Teesdale after his death. See Baring 

 Gould's Lives of the Saints, 2nd edit., February. 



Laithkirk — "is doubtless the same with Barn-church. It is 

 common in Yorkshire to call a barn a laith. The local tradition 

 is, that it was old Fitzhugh's Tithe Barn. Wm. Fitzhugh, in 

 the 15th century, was Rector of Romaldkirk, of which parish 

 Laithkirk was anciently a part." Bell. 



'■'■ LeatJi, a barn." Engl. Dial. Soc, Tour to Caves. 



^^ Lathe, a barn." " 4 threaves of rye in the lath barn, \l. \0s. 

 Snaith, 1637." Best's Farming Book. 1641. Surtees Soc. 1857. 



**It is still used in Lincolnshire." Chaucer's Canterb. Tales 

 Glossary. Tyrwhitt. 



" Why ne had thou put the capel in. the lathe." Chaucer. 

 The Reve's Tale. 



KiRKBEK. 



From Dan. hirh, or Icel. kirkja, a church, and beer, a house. 

 Icel. hirju-hcer, is a local Icel. name — Church house. See Bee. 



Knowle. Knock. Knotx. 



Icel. ^'■knauss, aknoll, crag," Cleasby; A.-S. cnoll, cn<sp, cn(Bpp, 

 a knoll, hill, cop, top, summit, Bosw. ; arx, cacumen, apex, Lye< 



