170 teesdale i'lace-names. 



Slacji. 



^' A hollow." Bell. 



"A hollow, a place where the surface is more depressed than 

 the surrounding area ; a bottom between two slight rises. Comp. 

 Dan. slag, hollows of some length and breadth in a road or track; 

 Dan. Dial, slaug, id. slaag, hollows in sandbanks, occasioned by 

 the removing action of the wind. Mr. Wedgwood remarks that 

 our word slack may be explained by Norse shkJg'e, slackness, 

 a slack place in a tissue, where the surface would sway down." 

 Atkinson's Clev. Dialect. Slack occurs also in "Weardale as a 

 place name. 



SlEDDALE. 



A.-S. sled, slivd, a slade, plain, open tract of country. Bosw. 

 Sl<Bd, a slade, via in montium convallibus. Lye. An open dale. 

 There is a Sled Gap in "Weardale. 



Slebwich. 



"Formerly Sled wish. It stands lonely and sequestered within 

 a few fields of the Tees, but without commanding any view of 

 the river scenery. It is a place of ghastly gray renown." Sur- 

 tees' Durh. J^orth of Mortham and of the Tees. 



A.-S. sload, a slade, plain, open tract of country, Bosw. ; also 

 "low marshy ground," Morris; and vie, a village. See Sleight- 

 holme, under Holm. 



Slutbaen^ Hall. 



Perhaps from Suio-Goth. and Dan. slutt, declivis, sloping down 

 e.g. Suio-Goth. slutte lacke, a steep hill; and A.-S. lam, oxhere- 

 ern, a barn ; a place for corn, id est, in Balderdale. See Hall. 



Snotteeton Hall. 



Surtees wonders why Cnapatun came to be called Snotterton. 

 " All the world wonders." It was one of the vills given by 

 Canute to St. Cuthbert of Durham. 



