Silver Cove
Early-attested site in the Parish of Ennerdale and Kinniside
Historical Forms
- Silfoucon, Silfhucone (sic MS) 1338 Cl
- Silver Cowe (or Coue) 1578 Cocker
- Silver Coves 1650 ParlSurv
Etymology
The forms are too late for any certain interpretation. The first part of the name resembles Silpho (PN NRY 115), but the meaning of the latter is itself doubtful.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Ennerdale Bridge
- Kinneyhow Carr
- Kinniside Cop
- Bank Ho
- Banna Fell
- Beckfoot
- Birk Moss
- Black Pots
- Blakeley
- Blakeley Raise
- Boat How
- Bowness
- Bracken Wreay
- Brandreth
- Buck Hole
- Cathow
- Caw Fell
- Cockhow
- Crag
- Croftbrow
- Dryhurst
- Fellend
- Flatfell End
- Friar Moor
- Gill
- Gillerthwaite
- Low Gillfoot
- Graystone
- Green Cove
- Greenthwaite
- Hay Stacks
- Lizza Brow
- Longlands
- Longmoor
- Longmoor Head
- Meadley
- High Merebeck
- Mireside
- Moorend
- Pillar
- Poukes Moss
- Raven Crag
- Red Pike
- Routen
- Sampson's Bratful
- Scarth Gap
- Sillathwaite
- Standing Stones
- Steeple
- Stockdale Moor
- Swinside
- Swinside End
- Toddle Bank
- Tongue
- High and Low Waterside
- Whinns
- Whitebanks
- White Esk
- Whorl Gill
- Wind Gap
- Woodfoot