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.
Survey of English place-names
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Buttermere
Buttermere
Parish in the County of Cumberland
Etymology
Brackenthwaite (
supra
354) was added to Buttermere in 1934.
Major Settlements
Buttermere
Other places in this Parish
Other OS name
Buttermere Dubs
Little Gatesgarthdale
Bowderbeck
Fleetwith
Hassness
Swinside Gill
High Crag
High Ho
Newlands Hause
High Stile
Early-attested site
Buttermere Hause
Gatesgarth
Honister Crag
