Tongue Head
Early-attested site in the Parish of Borrowdale
Historical Forms
- caput de Tunghe, del Tung 1242 Furness
Etymology
So called from its shape, as it lies between Angle Tam Gill and Allen Crags Gill. The name is derived from OE tunge, 'tongue,' or more probably from ON tunga which is in frequent use in Iceland as an independent word and as a place-name element. Cf. also Tongue in N. Sutherland.
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