Bogolhole, Brancepth

[stanmapstone]

Boggle Hole apparently means 'Haunted Hollow'

Stan

[lazytee]

Thank you for the explanation of the name Boggle Hole, Stan.  It seems absolutely right.

I found the exact location through your exchange of messages on Rootsweb (via Google) with Kevin Wardle last year and was intending to contact you to express my thanks.  I know you are a regular RootChatter.  I used the link to the Durham County Council map site and was delighted to see Boggle Hole marked on the old map.  So easy - excellent.  I have now looked at the aerial view on Google Maps and see that there is no building there now, only a tree and field markings of a possible enclosure.  I expect Boggle Hole was just a small farmhouse or cottage when my gt x 3 grandma was born there in 1754.

Many thanks again.  I am thrilled with this discovery.

Lazytee

[2zpool]

There is also a Boggle Hole in Lamesley Parish. 

Janis

[stanmapstone]

and a Bogle Hole in Iveston   

Stan

[Tony Cassidy]

Hello boggle hole is in the area of helmington row in between crook and willington. Coincidence there is a deep cave in the woods there? Could it be the   boggle hole?

[stanmapstone]

Boggle Hole was a building Can be seen on this map http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=17&lat=54.7172&lon=-1.7119&layers=171&right=BingHyb
Stan

[lazytee]

Many thanks again, Stan.  No wonder the house is no longer there!

Regards, Hazel.

[Tickettyboo]

I also have great x 2 grandparents who in 1851 were living at "Cats Arse", Crawcrook, shown as "Cats Hole" on the 1850s O. S. map!  

Totally off topic, but I can imagine the scene where the enumerator innocently asked
"Cat's Hole ??  Where's that?"

:-)

Boo

[stanmapstone]

You can see Catshole on the map at http://maps.nls.uk/view/102341443#zoom=5&lat=2551&lon=12045&layers=BT

Stan