Thunder Stone(s)
Other OS name in the Parish of Orton
Etymology
, three examples of this name occur in the parish , and several elsewhere in We ; e. ModE thunder-stone is applied to various fossils and popularly to meteorites ( NED s.v . ) , in We to isolated boulders ( EDD s.v . ) , the earliest example ( from 1690 ) being Thunderstone ( ii , 101 infra ) ; several are boundary stones .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bousfield
- Bretherdale
- Coatflatt Hall
- Flakebridge
- Kelleth
- Langdale
- Middleton
- Raisbeck
- Raisgill Hall
- High & Low Scales
- Scoutgreen
- Sunbiggin
- Eller Gill
- Gaisgill
- Lune's Bridge
- Roundthwaite
Other OS name
- Adam's Gill
- Archer Hill
- Barugh
- Beckside
- Birkbeck Fells
- Birk Gill Moss
- Bits, Bits Gill
- Black Bank
- Blackley Gill
- Blakethwaite Bottom
- Bland Ho
- Blea Gill
- Bowbrow
- Bowderdale Foot
- Brackenhill
- Breaks Head
- Breast High
- Bretherdale Bank, Beck, Common, Foot, Hall, & Head
- Bridge End
- Broad Fell
- Brown Bank
- Bullflatt
- Burnt Gills
- Bush Howe
- Busket Howe
- Bybeck
- The Calf
- Castle Howe
- Chapel Ho
- Churn Gill
- Cloven Stone
- Coatflatt Mill
- Cobles
- Corkham Beck
- Cotegill
- Cowbound
- Cow Dubb
- Crag, High & Low Crag
- Crookdale Crag
- Daw Bank
- Dawns
- Deep Gill
- Demings Ho & Moss
- Dennison Hill
- Doats
- Docker Force & Knott
- Dog Lumb
- Dorothy Bridge
- Dryside
- Eskew Beck & Head
- Fawcett Mill
- Field Head
- Flow Moss
- Friar Biggins
- Gamelands
- Gibsonhill
- Gill
- Gills
- East & West Grain
- Green Brow
- Greenholme
- Greenholme Bridge
- Greenside Crag
- Grimes Moor
- Hand Lake
- Hare Shaw
- Hartley Gill
- Haybank
- Hazelgill Knott
- Hazel Howe
- Hollin Gill
- Holme Ho
- Howe Nook
- Ings Ho
- Kelleth Rigg
- Kellsyke Well
- Kinmond
- Knott, Knott Ho & Moss
- Lad Crag
- Lady Well
- Langdale Beck, Bridge, & Fell
- Lodgegill
- Long Gills
- Low Chapel
- Low Moor
- Marl Crag
- Martin Gap
- Mazongill
- Meldikes
- Mickle Gill
- Midfield
- Midwath Stead
- Moor Ho
- New Ho
- North Side
- Orton Beacon, Hall, Old Hall, & Scar
- Owlet Bank
- Packhorse Hill
- Park, Park Ho
- Potlands
- Rampshowe
- Ram's Gill
- Rayne
- Red Crag
- The Riggs
- Round Hills
- Salterwath
- Scalegill
- Scalehow
- Scar Side
- Scot Howe
- Selsmire
- High & Low Shaw
- Shepherd's Bridge
- Simon's Seat
- Slapestones Bridge
- Sproatgill, Sproatgill Well
- Stakeley
- Steps Plant
- Stock Gill
- Stony Gill
- Street, Street
- Lane
- Sunbiggin Tarn
- Tarn Moor
- Thorny Bank
- Uldale
- Wain Gap
- Water Ho, Waters
- West Fell
- Whey Sike
- Whinash
- Whinhowe
- Whitebrow
- Windscarth
- Winster Ho
- Winterscleugh
- Wolflea Gill
- Adam Slack's Gill
- Archer Hill & Moss
- Belt Howe
- Birk Gill
- Blea Gill
- Blease Fell
- Low Borrow Bridge
- Borrowdale Edge
- Bowring Well
- Brockholes
- Brundreth Stone
- Burn Gill
- Carling Gill
- Castle Green & Howe
- Castle Howe
- Cleugh Gill
- Cocklake
- Cooper Ho
- Cooper Ho
- Crowsdale Beck
- Deep Moss
- Dry Gill
- Dyke
- Edge
- Ellergill Beck & Bridge
- Galloper
- Gelstone
- Gibbet Hill
- Gillsgrassing Wood
- Green Knott
- Hare Shaw
- High Beck Lane
- Jeffrey's Mount
- Lantley Gill
- Lawtland Ho
- Loups Fell
- Overcluegill
- Raw Busk
- Redgill
- Rispa Pike
- Rogerhowe
- Roundthwaite Abbey & Common
- Salterwath Bridge
- Screes of Black Force
- Swinesay Sike
- Tebay Bridge, Fell, & Gill
- Thunderstone
- Traildike
- Uldale Head
- Waskew Head
- Weasel Gill
- Wether Hill
- Whitefold Moss
- Wisen Sike
- Woodend