3-560: The Lort Burn is a subterranean burn in Newcastle upon Tyne . It used to flow through the centre of the city into the Tyne but was essentially used as an open sewer, particularly unpleasant since the meat markets backed onto it. The name may derive from the Old Norse 'lortr' meaning 'filth' or 'excrement'. In 1696 it was put underground, and in 1749 Dean Street was built following its course (hence
6-610: Is "bourn", " bourne ", "borne", "born", which is retained in placenames like Bournemouth , King's Somborne , Holborn , Melbourne . A cognate in German is Born (contemp. Brunnen ), meaning "well", "spring" or "source", which is retained in placenames like Paderborn in Germany. Both the English and German words derive from the same Proto-Germanic root. Scots Gaelic has the word bùrn , also cognate, but which means " fresh water ";
9-554: The street name, from dene ); as was its extension, Grey Street , in the 1830s. The burn starts in Leazes Park . Burn (stream) In local usage, a burn is a kind of watercourse . The term applies to a large stream or a small river . The word is used in Scotland and England (especially North East England ) and in parts of Ulster , Kansas , Australia and New Zealand . The cognate of burn in standard English
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