Honister Crag
Early-attested site in the Parish of Buttermere
Historical Forms
- mountain called Unnisterre 1751 GM
Etymology
The forms are too late for certainty, but this may conceivably be 'Húni 's staðir,' twice recorded in Norway in the form Hunastad (h )r . For the preservation of inflexional r , cf. Burton Stather (L).
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Buttermere Dubs
- Little Gatesgarthdale
- Bowderbeck
- Fleetwith
- Hassness
- Swinside Gill
- High Crag
- High Ho
- Newlands Hause
- High Stile