| The Nidd – or, ‘the flowing one’ | | 1:04pm Friday 2nd May 2008 | | THE Nidd, one of the north's more
picturesque rivers, runs close to
Harrogate before joining the Ouse
just outside York. But what does
that simple syllable mean? |
| Boosbeck – actually, ‘Cow Shed Beck’ | | 12:05pm Friday 18th April 2008 | | THAT the name of the village
of Boosbeck just outside
Skelton involves running
water should come as
no surprise. - beck after all, today
means, as it meant a thousand
years ago, a stream. |
 | A chicken and egg debate for Boldon | | 2:55pm Fri 4 Apr 08 | | THE Boldons - West Boldon, East
Boldon and Boldon Colliery - are
sandwiched in a belt of green between
South Shields and Sunderland. |
| Thringarth, a very thorny subject indeed | | 12:05pm Friday 28th March 2008 | | THRINGARTH, near Middletonin-
Teesdale, just to the north of
the Grassholme Reservoir, has a
name that recalls one of the most
important weapons in the Dark
Age farmer's armoury. |
| The ‘Oak Clearing’ is anything but now | | 12:46pm Friday 21st March 2008 | | ACKLAM, today a suburb of
Middlesbrough, as little as a
century ago an independent village,
has a name that takes us
back to the forests of ancient
England. |
| Ripon – the empire of the ‘Hrype’ | | 1:10pm Friday 14th March 2008 | | THE cathedral city of Ripon needs
no introduction: but the origins of
its name most certainly do, for
they take us into a very different
world from that evoked today by
the minster and Ripon's narrow
streets. |
| Nothing to do with woodpeckers or war | | 1:42pm Friday 7th March 2008 | |
THE tranquil village of Finghall, to
the east of Leyburn, has a name
that takes us back into the depths
of the Dark Ages. |
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