_Pool_, Anglo-Saxon _pol_, Welsh _pwll_, Icelandic _pollr_. There are in the Wear and its tributaries a large number of pools which have names. Holm Pool is the pool by the holm, and Wash Pool very probably was a place where the good wives washed their linen in the days when spinning, weaving, and various other methods of manufacturing household requisites were in full operation. Winn Pool, from the Anglo-Saxon _winn_, _gewin_, contest, struggle, to win--the pool where the meeting of the waters cause a fight, and struggle, as it were, to _win_. The _eale_ and _ealand_ are our isle and island, and are the names given in Weardale to alluvial land on the margins of the main river. In the river and place-names Gret_a_, _Ea_, _Ea_mont, Batters-_ea_, Aldern-_ey_, Pont-_eland_, _ea_ or _a_ represents water or a river. Bishop Egelwin, 1069, "after having, with all his people, passed three months and some days at _Ealande_, returned to the church of Durham," according to the Saxon writers. In the Boldon Buke we find in a charter of Bishop Flambard--“R. Biscop greteth well all his thanes and drenghs of _Ealand_scire and Norhamscire." In Wolsingham parish we find in Hatfield’s Survey, Papworth-ell, Small-eys, and in the same record Catherine of the Ele is mentioned. The names of places containing the Anglo-Saxon root _ea_, in the parish of Stanhope, are about a dozen. In 1380, according to Hatfield, the parson of Stanhope held the Frith, and a place _parcellum del Ele_, containing one acre. In 1608, in a list of lands held by the rector of Stanhope, we find "one close called ‘The Parson Ele.’" A few hundreds of yards eastward, just below the Butts, we have Bond Eale, a stretch of land subject to be flooded, and formerly held by bond tenants, who had to perform services in connection with the land, such as thatching and carrying the running gear for Stanhope corn-mill. Thomas Morgan, by will dated 1641, left for charitable purposes amongst other lands: "One parcel of arable ground in ye said Frosterley lying and being at ye west end of ye same town in a place there called Hudse Eale, and one acre and a rood of ground lying and being in ye said Frosterley in a place called ye Mille Eale, and all other my lands and tenements with ye said appurtenances in Frosterley aforesad--Barnes Eale--excepted." A mile and a half west of Eastgate we have, between Hunterley Well and Parkhouse Pasture, the interesting Cammock Eale, locally called "Cammo Keel," for the derivation of which we have the adjectival component from the Celtic _cam_, crooked, and the ending _og_, diminutive, Celtic _ock_--hence the little crooked isle.