Dovengill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Ravenstonedale
Historical Forms
- Devingill, Devengill 1578–1597 PR
- Dovengill, Douengill 1628,1679 1710 NWm
- Douingill 1696,1704 PR
Etymology
Dovengill, Devingill , Devengill 1578–1597 PR (freq ), Dovengill , Douengill 1628, 1679 ib, 1710 NWm 224, Douingill 1696, 1704 PR. The earliest Dev - forms in PR are probably misreadings of Dov - (e and o are very similar in the handwriting of the period). 'Duvan's ravine', v. gil . The first el. is most probably the OIr pers.n. Dubán (borrowed in ON as Dufan ), as in Dovenby (Cu 284), cf. Ekwall, ScandsCelts 68.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bowber Head
- Bowderdale Beck & Head
- Brownber
- Lockholme
- Murthwaite
- Narthwaite
- Newbiggin on Lune
- Scandal Beck & Head
- Stennerskeugh
- Tarn
- Townhead
- Uldale Gill
- Wandale, Wandale Hill
- Weasdale
Other OS name
- Adamthwaite
- Adamthwaite Bank
- Artlegarth
- Ashes Gill
- Ash Fell
- Ash Fell Edge
- Ashfield
- Ash Pot
- Backside
- Banks, Banks Rigg
- Beckstones
- Bent Hill
- Black Moss
- Bleaflatt
- Blirt Hill
- Brackenber
- Breakyneck Scar
- Bridge
- Brow Foot
- Brunt Hill
- Causeway End
- Chapel Rigg
- Claylands
- Clouds
- Clouds Gill
- Cocklake
- Coldbeck
- Cold Keld
- Cook Mire
- Coupland Sike
- Cow Bank
- Crooks
- Crooks Beck
- Cross Bank
- Dale Gill
- Dale Slack & Tongue
- Dena Mire
- Dogbar
- Dry Sike
- Dubbs
- Ellergill
- Eller Hill
- Elm Pot
- Fell End
- Fell End Cloud
- Flass
- Flint Hole & Howe
- Foggy Gill
- Forcepot Sike
- Fox Hole
- Friar Bottom
- Gaisgill
- Gallows Hill
- Gars
- Garshill
- Giants' Graves
- Gracete Moor
- Grain Gill
- Green Bell
- Green Rigg
- Greenside
- Greenside Beck & Tarn
- Grere Fell
- Hag Ho
- Handley's Bridge
- Hanskey Bridge
- Hard Rigg
- Harter Fell
- Hashy Gill
- Heckgill Mire
- High Lane
- High Wood
- Hill Top
- Hooksey
- Intake
- Keld Head
- Kensgriff
- Kilnmire
- Knott
- Knoutberry
- The Lane
- Leath Gill
- Lockholme Head
- Long Gill
- Lord's Table
- Low Lane
- Lytheside
- Moss
- Murthwaite Park & Rigg
- Needle Ho
- Nettle Gill
- New Ho
- Odd Gill
- Park Ho
- Parrock Moor
- Peer's Hill
- Philip Close
- Pinskey Bottom
- Piper Hole
- Poskey Bottom
- Potts
- Ramingber Bridge
- Ravenstonedale Beck & Common
- Rawthey Bridge
- Rigg End
- Riggs
- Rowfoot
- St Helen's Chapel & Well
- Sally Beck
- Sandbed
- Sand Tarn
- Sandwath
- Scar Sikes
- Scot Rake
- Shawgill Sike, Shawmire
- Snowfell End
- Sour Hill
- Spengill Head
- Sprintgill
- Stennerskeugh Clouds
- Stepsbeck
- Stockless
- Stone Ho
- Stouphill Gate
- High & Low Stoups
- Street
- Streetside
- Studfold
- Swindale
- Tailor Mire
- Tarn Sike
- Thackthwaite Gill
- Thornthwaite
- Todwray
- Tranmoor
- Tranna Hill
- Turn End
- Wath
- West Grain
- Whin's Beck
- Whitber
- White Green
- Whiterigg
- Wraygreen
- Wyegarth Gill
- Yarlside