_Ley_, _lea_, _lee_, _lay_, is an open place, a pasture or field where cattle may lie; from the Anglo-Saxon _leah_, _leag_, _lege_, _lea_, _leah_; from _licgan_, _liggan_, to lie. The _lea_ was an opening or forest clearing where cattle might be depastured, but where a good deal of woodland might exist. Gray, in the opening lines of his beautiful "Elegy," sings-- "The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the _lea_." This terminal occurs in over twenty names of places in Boldon Buke. In Weardale there are five names of places having this suffix which are very important, as they give names to extensive stretches of land, and very probably the adjectival components may all be derived from personal names. These are Frosterley, Bishopley, Rogerley, Horsley, and Brotherlee. On the hill north of Eastgate is situated Bewley, where once a cross existed, and in former days a watch for invaders was kept here. This place-name is probably more correctly Bewdley. In 1380 and 1590 it was written _Bowdlye_, and may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon _bige_, _biga_, _bigan_, a turning, corner, bending, angle, the ley, or field, on the bend or bow of the hill, the bowed ley. Amongst the highest hills in Weardale are Fendrith Hill, Knoutberry Hill, Noon Hill, St. Cuthbert’s Hill, and Horseshoe Hill. _Hill_, _hyl_, _hyll_, is Anglo-Saxon, Norse _holl_, a name given to large and small elevations. One of these hills is named after the patron saint of the Bishopric of St. Cuthbert. Like Outberry Plain on the southern ridge, Knoutberry Hill on the north, evidently derived its name from the cloud-berry, _Rubus Chamæmorus_, which grows on the Weardale fells. In 1614, however, it was written Nookhill. Fendrith was written in 1539 Fenrake. The word _rake_ is common in Weardale, and means to walk or range, or the extent of the walk--hence a sheep-_rake_, Swedish _reka_, to travel, journey. A _fen_ is land covered with mud, a morass--hence the Fenrake was the district covered by a large morass. The hill known as the Horseshoe might be so shaped, or the suffix may be _shaw_, a wood--the wood of Horsa.