Helflet' yar' Fishery

Helflet' yar' in 1128, Elfletes yare. Could mean Aelfflaed or Aepelfaed's yair or 'yair by or in the eel stream, channel or inlet'. Owned by the bishop of Durham. East of the Tyne bridge. May refer to an eel-stream rather than 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}.