BOOKING FIELDS, near Beauchief. These fields once belonged to the parish of Norton.
BODLE, sb. one-sixth of an English penny.
- 'Not worth a bodle.'
BOGEY, sb. a ghost or apparition.
BOGGARD, sb. a ghost, apparition.
- It was said that a boggard used to appear by night at a place called Bunting Nook in Norton parish a dark, umbrageous place. There is a phrase 'to take boggard,' i.e., to take fright.
- 'She took boggard, fell o'er a straw, and cut her throat.'
- Mather's Songs, 96.
BOGGLE, v. to take fright, hesitate.
BOGGLE, sb. a bungle. 'He made a boggle on it.'
BOILEY FARM, near Killamarsh.
BOKE, v. to nauseate. Hunter's MS.
- 'To belche (belke or bolke, A.) ructare.'—Cath. Angl.
BOKE, v. to point the finger at.
BOKEFIELD, in Ecclesfield.
- A.S. bὀc, a charter, land granted by charter.? It may be bὀc, fagus, the beech. This tree, however, would be rare in Ecclesfield. I do not remember seeing a field-name in the district in which the word beech appears as a component. Caesar's statement, however, that the beech did not grow in England when he came over here is considered by Professor Rolleston to be erroneous. Bὀcand is distinguished from folcland.
BOLE HILL. There is a place of this name in Norton parish, and there are others in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. These places are always on high ground, and the name is evidence of lead having been smelted there. In West's Symboleographie, 1647, sect. 133, is a form of bond whereby the obligor is bound to deliver 'ten foothers of good, pure, and merchandizable boole lead of the weight commonly called the boole weight, most commonly used within the county of Derby, that is, after the rate and weight of thirty foot to the foother, every foot to containe six stone, and every stone to containe fourteen pounds, at his Boole Hill at Hardwicke, in the county of D., where commonly he used to burn his lead.' The families of Gill of Norton and Rotherham of Dronfield were great lead merchants in the seventeenth century. The Gills had a shot-tower at Greenhill, which was standing a few years ago. Lead was carried by pack-horses to places many miles distant from the mines, and wood and charcoal were taken back in return. The Rotherhams had a large lead mill near Beauchief. It was supplied with charcoal from the woods adjacent to Beauchief Park. This I know from old deeds which I have seen. These places are generally the sites of barrows or places where in old times cremation of bodies has taken place. 'The latter end of June, 1780, some persons getting stone for Mr. Greaves of Rowley, in Woodland, to wall in a
