High Scawdel
Early-attested site in the Parish of Borrowdale
Historical Forms
- Hovedscaldale c.1210–12 Scotland
Etymology
The early form of this name is an inversion compound, the first element of which is ON hǫfuð, 'head.' The second is probably a compound of ON skalli , 'bald head', used as a nickname infra 390, and dalr , 'valley.'
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Lodore
- Watendlath
- Greenup Edge
- Long Strath
- Seathwaite
- Seatoller
- Stockley Bridge
- Stonethwaite
- Sty Head
- Ashness
- Brown Dodd
- Burthwaite Bridge
- Glaramara
- Grange
- Tongue Head
Other OS name
- Eagle Crag
- Reecastle Crag
- Lodore Cascade
- Base Brown
- Longthwaite
- Riggside
- Rosthwaite
- Shepherds Crag
- Shivery Knott
- Stake
- High Tove
- Seatoller Fell
- Sty Head Pass
- Dovenest Crag
- Manesty
- Borrowdale Fells
- Grange Crags
- Birch How
- Bowder Stone
- Bull Crag
- Capell Crag
- Castle Crag
- Chapel Ho
- Ellers
- Field Ho
- Goat Crags
- Great End
- Hanging Knotts
- High Seat
- Hind Side
- Hollows
- Hollow Stone
- How
- Leathes Cottage