High and Low Grains
Other OS name in the Parish of Askerton
Historical Forms
- Graynes 1552 CW(OS)xiii
- Lowe Graines 1618 NaworthA
- the highe Graines 1622 Boothby
Etymology
are Graynes 1552 CW (OS) xiii, Lowe Graines 1618 NaworthA, the highe Graines 1622Boothby . Low Grains is in Bewcastle . The word grayn or grain , from ON grein , meant originally ' branch of a tree , ' whence the meaning ' tributary . ' It commonly denoted the meeting - place of two streams . It probably has this meaning here , with reference to the meeting of two or more of the streams which unite to form Kirk Beck .
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Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Askerton Castle
- Askerton Park
- Brown Hill
- Bushley Bank
- The Butt
- Cammock Rigg
- Cocklet Rigg
- Collin Bank
- Doe Hill
- Elliotstown
- Fawcettlees
- Flowery Hirst
- Foulbog Rigg and Sike
- Gillalees
- Meughsgate
- High and Low Park
- Parkgate
- Red Hall
- Rigg Head
- Room's Cragg
- Shaw Plantation
- Shopford
- Side Fell
- Smithsteads
- Stack Cleugh
- Woodhead
- Bull Cleugh
- Haining Bank
- Mount Hulie
- Allergarth
- Bush
- Herd Hill
- Oakstock
- Barron's Pike
- The Beacon
- Birch Bush and Birk Bush
- Birky Clugh
- Bogside
- Bottle Crag
- Howdale
- Jobscleugh
- Jock's Hill
- Knorren Lodge
- Lonning Head
- Lynes