Continuing eastward, we find several _becks_ on the southern border of the county of Durham. In 1672 a Teesdale stream was named Raygill Burn, having the Celtic _ray_, the Norse _gill_, and the Saxon _burn_. In the adjoining parish of Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, nearly all the tributaries are named _becks_ in the Ordnance map, but these are, with one or two exceptions, originally all _burns_. In an old document of Queen Elizabeth’s time we find in this parish, Wascrow _Burn_, Westerharehope _Burn_, Hadderly Clough _Burn_, Houselop _Burn_, Bradley _Burn_, Collier _Beck_ and Ells _Beck_. There do not appear to be more than two _becks_ in this parish, Ells Beck and Holbeck, the latter a small runner near Holbeck House, the home of the Craggs family, one of whom was the Right Hon. James Craggs, Secretary of State. In the Wolsingham names of streams that of Wascrow is generally now called Waskerley; its real name, however, appears to be Westcrau, from _crau_, a crag or rock, and _west_; or its adjectival component might be _wæs_, water. Houselop is Ouselhope, the hope of the _Ousel_ or _Ouse_, Welsh _wysg_, Erse _uisge_, water. Ouse is a common river name. Having so many Anglo-Saxon names of places in the eastern part of the Bishopric of Durham, it is natural to suppose that the settled families of the Angles would send offshoots along the banks of the Wear, up into the dale where the river had its source. Wolsingham--the Saxon metropolis of Weardale, for its ancient manor included the whole of the Wear valley westward--is the _ham_ or home of the sons or descendants of a family of Franks, represented in Kemble’s English settlement names in Wælsingas, and in the German Walasingas, a family who probably settled in the South of England and sent their sons to the North, for Durham, according to Taylor, contained no original Anglo-Saxon settlements. East of Wolsingham but a few miles is Witton, the _ton_, or town of witness, Anglo-Saxon _witena-gemot_. North of Weardale lie Hunstanworth and Edmundbyres, so the dale of the Wear is surrounded by towns having the Anglo-Saxon suffixes, _ton_, _ham_, and _worth_, except the Danish _byre_ of St. Edmund.