St Herbert's Island
Early-attested site in the Parish of Above Derwent
Historical Forms
- island of Herbertholm 1343 Cl
- insulam Herberti 1374 NB
- S. Herebertes isle c.1540 Leland
- Sancte Harbartes, Insula voc. Sancte Harbart Isle 1560 Cocker
Etymology
This is the island in which Hereberht , the friend of St Cuthbert, lived the life of a hermit in the 7th century (Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica iv, 28). The addition of the Scandinavian holmr , in the precise sense of 'island', to St Herbert's name is remarkable. v. supra Derwent Water 33.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Braithwaite
- Gutherscale
- Skelgill
- Birkrigg
- High and Low Coledale
- Copperheap Bay
- Derwent Fells
- Goldscope Mine
- Swithenthate
- Fawepark
- How
- Keskadale
- Long Bridge
- Newlands
- Portinscale
- Revelin Moss
- Rogerside
- Thornthwaite
- Uzzicar
Other OS name
- Black Crag
- Calfclose Wood
- Cat Bells
- Causey Pike
- The Croft
- Dale Bottom
- Derwent Bay
- Derwent Hill
- Ellas Crag
- Gill
- Gill Bank
- Jenkin Hill
- Lanefoot
- Lingholme
- Little Dale
- Little Town
- Low Ho
- High Moss
- Otterbield Bay
- Otter Island
- Overside Wood
- Pan Holes
- Pow Ho
- Victoria Bay
- Braithwaite How
- Brandelhow
- Gray Stones
- Ladstock Wood
- Roodlands
- Braithwaite Moss
- Brandelhow Park
- Greenah Hill
- Hallgarth
- Hawse End
- Highgate
- Hollins
- Pow How
- Rosetrees
- Rowling End
- Silver Hill
- High and Low Snab
- Stair
- Stile End
- Stonycroft
- Swinside
- Thwaitehill
- Ullock
- Ullock Moss
- Woodend
- Howend Plantation
- Aikin Ho
- Barf
- Bawd Hall
- Beckside
- Beckstones
- Gillbrow
- King's Wood
- Powter Howe
- Windyhill Wood