Stanhope and Rookhope are characteristic names in a district of stone and rock. In the Boldon Buke and Hatfield’s Survey we have Stanhope, Rokhop, and in the times of Bishop Beck, Stanehop, and Stanhop. The first components in these names are from Anglo-Saxon _stan_, German _stein_, Icelandic _sten_, Danish _steen_, a stone; and Gaelic _roc_, a mass of stone. The district is full of stones, as the many stone fences which net the whole of the inlands and the higher lands to the moors testify. From Boltsburn village the Rookhope stream runs over successive edges of limestone and freestone, and culminates in a grand display by leaping over several picturesque linns at Eastgate. [Illustration: THE KEPIER HOSPITAL.] Two of the place-names, Harthope and Swinhope, carry us back to the wild beasts of the forest. One was the lodging-ground or resort of the hart or stag, Anglo-Saxon _heort_; and the other gets its initial component from Anglo-Saxon _swin_, _swyn_, a swine; Old German _suin_, traceable back to the Sanskrit _su_. The boar tusks found in Heatheryburn Cave, and the Roman altar at Stanhope Rectory, testify to Weardale being the abode of boars. The local word _aswin_, obliquely, Welsh _asswyn_, does not apply to this place-name. A far more probable etymology is the Celtic _swyn_, holy. Charnock is of opinion that the several rivers named "swine" or "swin" may be from this root. Bolihope, the name of a considerable subvalley on the south of Frosterley and Stanhope, is interesting, if not so easily explained. The name is evidently associated with the district of Frosterley, where the stream from Bolihope enters the Wear. At this village we have as place-names Bottlingham and Bot’s Well, and the ancient chapel is said to have been dedicated to St. Botolph. Bishop Beck granted to Walter Berington twenty-seven acres of land in Bothelinghopp. The initial component would suggest the Anglo-Saxon _botel_, _botl_, _botles_, an abode, mansion, or dwelling; also Norse _botl_, German _buttel_. Leo, however, says that very few Anglo-Saxon names of places are united with this word. Bolton was formerly written Bodeltune. This, however, does not appear to be the etymon of the name in question, as _botel_ and _ham_, both Saxon for a dwelling, would not be found in one name. A large number of names of places have the Saxon patronymic _ing_, which often forms the medial syllable, such as Wolsingham, Darlington, Easington, Washington, Heighington, and, if the medial syllable of the name under consideration be the Saxon patronymic, then it is an Anglo-Saxon place-name--the home of the sons of some Saxon named Bottel. Bot is a Scandinavian personal name, but we find the Saxon Byttingas and Potingas, _Liber Vitæ_, Bota, and Frisian Botte. The personal name Pottel--which by the law of interchange of initial letters might become Bottel--would explain that the _hope_ and the _ham_ were belonging to the son of some Saxon settler of this name, as elsewhere mentioned.