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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.

Howgill Foot

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen

Historical Forms

  • Howgill Jugg (sic for -Ingg) 1710 NWm

Etymology

, 1823 M , Howgill Jugg (sic for-Ingg )1710 NWm 146 , ' hollow ravine ' , v. hol 2 , gil , eng ' meadow ' , cf. Howgill (ii, 120infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site