High Cup Gill, Head, Nick, & Scar
Other OS name in the Parish of Dufton
Historical Forms
- Hycopeheade 1588 Rent
Etymology
( 1859OS ) , 1859OS , Hycopeheade 1588Rent , the name of a deep boulder - strewn ravine ( v. gil ) , bounded by two continuous scars ( v. sker ) , except for one indentation ' the nick ' ) , which meet at High Cupgill Head ( v. hēafod ) ; Cup is clearly OE , ME cuppe ' cup ' , used ( as in ModE ) of ' a cup-like hollow or depression in the ground ' .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Backstone Edge
- Cosca Hill
- Foxyard Sike
- Howe Cauldron
- Hurning Lane
- Keisley Beck
- Kemplar Bridge
- Kettlegrain Sike
- Lodge Gill
- Long Mea
- Low Moss
- Mail Sike
- Maingrain Sike
- Mattergill Sike
- Mexico
- Mill Bridge
- Millstone Sike
- Moor Ho
- Moss Ho & Shop
- Narrow Gate
- Nether Hearth
- Nichol Chair
- Nook Fold
- Old Hush
- Peeping Hill
- Pus Gill
- Rasp Hill
- Rheabower Wood
- Rossgill Edge
- Rowantree Sike
- Rundale Beck & Tarn
- St Cuthbert's Church
- Sandriggs
- Scald Fell
- Seamore Tarn
- Shelving Mea
- Slegistone Band
- Small Burn
- Stony Mea
- Strands Beck
- Sturthwaite Nook
- Swindale Beck & Head
- Thistly Hill
- Threlkeld Sike
- Tommy Bayle's Spring
- Town Head
- Water-sinking Sike
- Westerhole Sike
- Wharleycroft
- The Wheel
- Bale Hill
- Billy's Beck
- Birkdale
- Black Brae Nook
- Bluethwaite Hill
- Bow Hall
- Brownber Hill
- Caldron Snout
- Castle Hill
- Coatsike
- Great & Little Cocklake, Cocklake Sike
- Cockle Sike
- Coneygarth
- Cow Band
- High & Low Crag
- Dale Byre
- Dead Crook
- Dobson Mere Foot & Sike
- Dodgen Pot
- Dod Hill
- Dudmire
- Dufton Fell, Hall, Pike, & Wood
- Far Close
- Fool Mire
- Force Burn
- Furness Lodge
- Golden Mea
- Grain Beck
- Green Burn
- Green Gill
- Greenhow
- Gregory
- Halsteads
- Hannah's Well
- Harthwaite
- High Potts
- Hindriggs
- Horseman Sike
- Middle Grain
- Renny Fold
- Stud Gill
- Watch Hill