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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Castle Knott

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale

Etymology

, 1865 OS , a pile of stones on a lofty part of the boundary with Middleton , doubtless a boundary cairn , so called from a supposed resemblance to a ruined fort , v. castel , knǫttr ' rocky hill, cairn ' .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site