_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--In addition to the local
rhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in
Grose. They are peculiar to the North of England:
"Rothbury for goats' milk,
And the Cheviots for mutton;
Cheswick for its cheese and bread,
And Tynemouth for a glutton."
"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless,
And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw;
Capheaton was a wee bonny place,
But Wallington bang'd them a'."
The _craw_, in the second rhyme, alludes to the _Crasters_, anciently
_Crancester_, an old family in the parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the
estates of the Shaftoe family.