174 TEESDALE PLVCE-NAMES. 



Spittle House, about twenty miles west from Barnard Castle 

 on the road to Brough. 



Spital Ings — hospital meadows by the water. 



These spitals or hospitals were numerous in the middle ages ; 

 many of them were for lepers, others for travellers and for non- 

 leprous sick people. In Newcastle was a Leper Hospital,* and 

 " The Spital," formerly at what is now Neville Street and the 

 Stephenson Monument, another at Berwick, and again at Hex- 

 ham, and others in various parts of the counties of Northumber- 

 land and Durham. 



Staestdeop. 



From A.-S. stcln, a stone, and Suio-Goth., Dan., and Sw. 

 forp, A.-S. thorp, village, farm, house. Villa saxosa. See Thoepe, 



Statnton. 



Prom A.-S. stcln, a stone, and tim, a dwelling. The stony 

 village. The houses of Stainton stand on the brink of large 

 quarries of freestone. See Ton. 



Stakwick. 



From A.-S. stdn, a stone, and wic, a village. The stone 

 village. See Wick. 



Station's (Roman) in the Disteict. . 



Of these there are six named on the maps, though there can 

 be little doubt that other minor ones existed, particularly 

 on the line of road from Bowes and Barnard Castle to Bishop 

 Auckland. Two of these stations are marked in Map No. CIL, 

 N.E., Appleby, 102, or S.E., 102, and three in Map No. CIII., 

 S.W., Co. Durham, 103. 



* That of " St. Mary Magdelayne without Pilgrimstreate yett within the subberbs of 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne." (Tempore Henrici I. ) It was a Priory or hospital for Lepers, 

 and afterwards for patients in time of pestilence. 



Near it was the Chapel of St James [on the site of which the new Museimi of Natural 

 History has been erected]. Bourne supposes that Barras Bridge was so called from its 

 conducting to the Barrows or burying ground of the Magdalen hospital.. Brand's 

 Hist., (fcc, of Newcastle, vol. i., p. 425, and seq. 



