Besi Hungri yar Fishery

Besi Hungri yar in 1128, Bosi hongri yare. 'Bisig' is old English for 'busy'. 'Bosig' is old English for 'cow-stall'. 'Hungor' is old English for 'hunger'. This word is used as a term of reproach alluding to barren ground - in this case the name may mean 'unprofitable weir'. In Gateshead, one of the bishop of Durham's weirs. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.