Whickham, hurl hames yar' Fishery

Hurl.hames yar in 1128, hurl homes yare, hurlhomes yare. 'Hurl' may be compared with The Hurle in Wolviston of unknown meaning. 'Hame' or 'home' looks like Old English 'hamm' meaning an enclosure, meadow or water-meadow. Owned by the bishop of Durham. 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}.