The termination _shaw_, a thicket or small wood, is frequently met with in place-names. The Danish _skov_ is a wood or forest, Icelandic _skogr_; the Anglo-Saxon _scua_, _scuwa_ is a shade, the same as the Swedish _skugga_. Anglo-Saxon _sceaga_ seems to mean shaggy wood. In the Hatfield’s Survey, a place in Bolihope is called Watteshawe--a wet wooded place. Near Allergill we have Birkshaw, the place shaded by birch-trees. In Shittlehope there are two places on the expanding moorlands called Bashaw and Mogshaw. The former was probably the badger shaw or wood. In the latter we have an important root, the Erse _magh_, Welsh _maes_, a plain. Taylor gives _magh_ as a Gadhelic test word, and says that it is found in more than a hundred Irish names of places. The various place-names embracing _mea_, _may_, are from the same root, and probably Migg Clos, held by the parson of Stanhope in 1380, is a kindred name. A place on the south side of Bolihope is named Harnshaw--written in 1614 _Hornyshawe_, and in 1666 _Harnshaw_--from Anglo-Saxon _hyrne_, _hirne_, an angle or corner, a resemblance to a horn--hence the _hyrne_ shaw would be the horn-shaped wood. Ramshaw, particularly known for its well, is evidently the ram wood, Anglo-Saxon _ram_, _ramm_, a ram; but some authorities derive _ram_ from _raven_. These etymological conclusions give us a broad birch, a horn-shaped and a wet wood, a wood on a plain, and a wood frequented by the ram and the badger. _Wood_, Anglo-Saxon _wudu_, _wode_, woodland, enters into a few local names, as Bradwode or Broadwood. In Rookhope there is a Foul Wood, a lead-mine so named over two hundred years ago. Its name is evidently from the Anglo-Saxon _ful_, rotten, the same as Foul Sike was the impure watercourse. In 1401 Roger Thornton leased a lead-mine in Weardale at a place called Old Wode Clough. In _field_, _ley_, and _ridding_, we have indications of clearings in the forest--places where cattle might feed. In Weardale there are some thirty _leys_, numerous _fields_ but very few _riddings_. The latter word is from Anglo-Saxon _hreddan_, to rid; _hredding_ a ridding; Danish _rydde_, to clear, grub up; _rydning_, clearing. The Weardale people are familiar with _rid-up_, a house; _rid-out_, a quarry; and similar terms. It is different from the _riding_, from Anglo-Saxon _thri_, _thry_, three; _thridda_, the third; _thrithing_, a third part of a province, as in the Yorkshire Ridings. Five hundred years ago John Migg held at Stanhope four acres of land in the _Ridding_, Robert Todd held _j Ridding_ over an acre, and Alexander Brancepath held five acres and one rod in the _Riddying_. In Queen Elizabeth’s time Michael Fetherstonhalgh of Stanhope Hall purchased of Follinsby a parcel of ground called Pathemairidding. In Path-mairidding we have the ridding on the plain over which there was a path.