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BoLAM. 



The farm house. 



Old Norse bol, a farm, or A.-S. hoi, a sleeping room, and ham, 

 home. 



Bol and loll are very frequent in Danish local names, and 

 even mark the time of Scandinavian settlements in Lincoln- 

 Bdl. is the equivalent of the English lotl and lolt. Streatfeild's 

 Lincolns. and the Danes. 



BOLION. 



Old Norse hoi, a farm, and tiin, a house. See Bolam above. 



Brow. 



A.-S. hrcew, hrew, a brow, eyebrow, eyelid. Icel. hriin. Ulf. 

 hraw. "Wei. hryn, brow, pen, head, cefn. back. See Skeat. 



The edge of a hill where the descent begins. 



Examples : — 



Brow, by Hudeshope Beck and Pikestone, north of Middleton- 

 in-Teesdale. 



Sleddale Brow, in Deepdale, on Lartington Moor. See Sled- 



DAIE. 



"White Brow, on south side of the Greta, near Spital Ings, 



Bbowson Bane. 

 Browson's bank. 



Btjtiee Stone. 



The stone on or near to which, butter, eggs, and other farm 

 produce were deposited, and money left for payment, when the 

 plague was in Barnard Castle. See Stone. 



Caldwell. 

 Cold "Well. A.-S. col, cool, cold, and wyl, wyll, well, a well. 



Caekin Fields. 



Carkin is a small township, near Forcett Park. The fields of 

 Carkin ; the possessive « omitted, as is usual in Yorkshire. 



