English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

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).