Glaramara
Early-attested site in the Parish of Borrowdale
Historical Forms
- Hovedgleuermerhe 1209–10 Furness
- Gleuermerghe 1211 ib
- Glaramara 1784 West
Etymology
In the first form Hoved is from OWSc hǫfuð, 'head,' clearly used here of the mountain itself, and the whole name, which is an inversion compound, may be interpreted 'Glaramara head.' The first element in the difficult Glaramara can be explained without violence to the early forms as (at ) gliúfrum , 'at the ravines,' the dative plural of ON gliúfr , to which erg , 'shieling,' was subsequently added. For the formation cf. Carhampton (So), the first element of which is (æt ) carrum .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Borrowdale Fells
- Grange Crags
- Lodore Cascade
- Seatoller Fell
- Sty Head Pass
- Base Brown
- Birch How
- Bowder Stone
- Bull Crag
- Capell Crag
- Castle Crag
- Chapel Ho
- Dovenest Crag
- Eagle Crag
- Ellers
- Field Ho
- Goat Crags
- Great End
- Hanging Knotts
- High Seat
- Hind Side
- Hollows
- Hollow Stone
- How
- Leathes Cottage
- Longthwaite
- Manesty
- Reecastle Crag
- Riggside
- Rosthwaite
- Shepherds Crag
- Shivery Knott
- Stake
- High Tove