When the Angles and Saxons arrived in our island they planted settlements in fertile districts. By the margins of some meandering river, which had already been named by the earlier Celtic race, the Saxon families located themselves and established homes, many of which are now large towns. The forest growth was cleared, and, with that love of home characteristic of the Saxons, a portion of the cleared land was enclosed, guarded, or protected, with the _tines_ of forest growth--the tines or twigs of the wood; hence _tun_ occurs in 137 Anglo-Saxon names of places in the 1,200 taken from Kemble’s Charters. This termination became to mean, not the tines or twigs alone, nor yet the hedges of which they were made, but the whole enclosure or estate was the _tun_ or _ton_ of some person; or the _ton_ otherwise distinguished, as Stockton, the stockaded town; Middleton, the middle town; Willington, the town of the family of Willing--sons of Will. Other terminations indicate Saxon homes, as _ham_, _worth_, _stoke_, _stow_, _fold_, _bury_. In the Boldon Buke we find the Danish _toft_; and the universal description of small holdings in Hatfield’s Survey is a _toft_ and a _croft_. We also find in primitive days the villagers holding _dales_ of land--land divided into long, narrow strips or divisions, each villager knowing his own strip. When Weardale was more under cultivation, it was customary for the inhabitants to _take in_ land from the moors; hence we find the place-name _intake_, locally _intak_. And at a later period still, when Acts of Parliament dealt with the division of moorlands, we got the name _allotment_, abbreviated to _lotment_ and _lot_--the allotted land. _Acre_ is mentioned, as in Farnacres, in the Boldon Buke; and in later surveys are Longacre and Etheredacres. _Barn_, _berry_, _beeld_, _byre_, and _by_, _bower_, _cave_, _castle_, _chesters_, _close_, _croft_, _dale_, and _darg_--as six darg, from Anglo-Saxon _dæg-weorc_, day’s work. _Fold_, _farm_, _faw_, _frith_, _gate_, _garth_, _hot_, _ing_, _ham_, _kirk_, _lodge_, _park_, _meadow_, _pry_, _shield_, _stead_, _ton_, and _wall_, are common in the dales of the county of Durham. Amongst the names referring to buildings we have _cross_, as Killhope Cross and Edmundbyres Cross. Stone crosses to guide the wayfarer were once erected at these places. _Brig_ is from bridge, whether built of stone or wood. _Currock_, a pile of stones erected on the moors or fells as a landmark. _Peth_ and _lonnon_ and _way_ are also common names. And all these have their adjectival component, as Lodge Field, Leases Park, Mill Houses, Pry Hill, Old Faw, Shield Ash, Watch Currock, etc. DURHAM CATHEDRAL BY THE REV. WILLIAM GREENWELL, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.