Boltshope is a small offshoot from Rookhope. Bolt, as an iron-door bolt, is from Anglo-Saxon and Danish _bolt_, German _bolgen_, from the root _bole_, round as the bole of a tree. The Anglo-Saxon _bold_, _bolt_, originally _búld_, _búlt_, means a house or dwelling, an abode; Danish _bolig_; and we have mention made in Hatfield of Bold Shell in Rookhope. Boltsburn is the village of the Rookhope Valley, and is situated at the foot of Boltshopeburn. At the top of the hope is Bolts Law, which is probably the place earliest named, and in all probability is from a personal name. Bold Shield would not be from the Anglo-Saxon _bold_, an abode, but is evidently Bold’s shield, the _shield_, or home, of Bold, as the eminence might be the _law_ of Bold or Bolt. _Dene_ is from the Celto-Saxon _den_, a deep, wooded valley; Anglo-Saxon _den_, _dene_, _denn_. The best specimen of this kind of valley in the county of Durham is probably Castle Eden Dene, a wooded, narrow valley near the sea. Its name is interesting, and contains the ancient and modern spelling. Its earliest name was evidently Eden, from _ea_ or _e_, water, and _den_, a wooded valley; and this becoming a proper name, a second _den_ was added--namely, Eden Dene, which gives us water-dene-dene. We have also in the north Hesleden, Deneholm, and Hardwick Dene. _Burn_, _grain_, _broc_, are allied. The first of these may be said to be as pure Weardale as Saxon. Whilst the Norse _beck_ crowds the banks of Teesdale, it does not exist in Weardale. _Burn_ spreads from this dale northward through Durham, Northumberland, and Scotland. _Beck_ is as foreign to Weardale as the Danish test-word _by_ and the Norwegian _thwaite_, though all the three names crowd around, close to the very hills on the south and west of the dale of the Wear. Within the bounds of Stanhope parish the Wear is fed by several tributary burns. These streams receive or are formed at the head by _grains_, and the grains are fed by springs from the _brocks_. _Brock_ is from Anglo-Saxon _broc_, _brece_, to break forth--the place where the water first breaks through the earth--hence _brook_, literally water running through the earth. A _brock_ is a little hollow a few feet wide, formed by water breaking through the ground, and washing out a miniature valley. The moors of Weardale and surrounding district abound with these broken places, which are mostly known to shepherds and game-shooters. They exist on the top of the fells, where they are the only natural shelters. Platey Brock, on Chapel Fell, receives its name from an exposed plate or shale bed. To show how numerous these places are, I will mention that on Burnhope Moor there are also Coldberry Brocks, Limestone Brocks, Highfield Brocks, Wester Langtayhead Brocks, Todsyke Brocks, Lodgegill Brocks, Scraith Head Brocks, Browngill Brock, Cocklake Brock, Sally-Grain Brocks, Lang Brock. To the above may be added the better-known names of Black Brocks, or Moss Brocks, in Burnhope, and