Walks Through the City of York Author:Robert Davies General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: printed by Nichols and son Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing ... more »text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 92 No. III. From Dringhouses To Mickleoate Bar. I HE village of Dringhouses is locally situated beyond the limits of the city, but being the place I have chosen for our starting-point it seems entitled to a few preliminary remarks. And first as to its name, which is not free from some of those difficulties that are so attractive to lovers of etymological inquiry. And the first question is whether the place was originally called Dringhouses or Einghouses, Drenghouses or Dreng- hows; and here unfortunately we cannot call in the assistance of Domesday Book. The place had no name when that record was compiled. Thoresby, in his Ducatus, in giving the history of Allerton Gledhow, near Leeds, goes out of his way to discuss the etymology of Dringhouses, merely because it has a terminal somewhat similar, and most unaccountably (as it is remarked by his modern editor Dr. Whitaker), after stating that the right name is Dringhows or Dringhowe, but that it is corruptly called Ringhouses, he gives a recondite derivation of the wrong name. " It was probably so called (he says) from the Howe or Howes round which they had their diverting exercises, perhaps in the time of the Romans, this being their stratum (whence Street-houses are denominated) to that celebrated city. The Roman circus is by the Saxons rendered Wrinffsete, and the wrestlings, runnings,« less