Boot
Early-attested site in the Parish of Eskdale and Wasdale
Historical Forms
- Bout, (the) Bought 1587 Eskdale
- Bought 1627,1795 PR
- Boot 1791 ib
Etymology
Cf. close called boughte de bekk 1578Cocker (in Nether Wasdale). This is ME bouʒt , 'bend, turn,' aptly descriptive (as Professor Tait noted for us) of the acute re-entrant angle which the valley makes at Boot above the confluence of the Whellan Beck with the Esk. Cf. bought in NED; the form byht , whence bight , recorded in OE, had i -mutation.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Wasdale Head
- Borrowdale Place
- Dawsonground Crags
- Great How
- Low Holme
- Maiden Castle
- Oliver Gill
- Paddock Wray
- Peel Place
- Thorns
- Wha Ho
- Whin Crag
- White Moss
- Miterdale Head
- Wasdale Hall
- Arment Ho
- Bakerstead
- Banklands
- Great and Little Barrow
- Beckfoot
- Beckhead
- Bell Crag
- Birdhow
- Black Comb
- Black Sail
- Blake Bank
- Bleabeck
- Bleatarn Hill
- Broad Tongue
- Brown Band
- Brownhow
- Bull How
- Cat Cove
- Chriscliffe Knotts
- Church Ho
- Cloven Stone
- Gill Bank
- Green Crag
- Green How
- Hard Rigg
- Hodge How
- Holling Head
- Hollinghow
- Hollowmires
- Illgill Head
- Kettle Cove
- Kirk Fell
- Lambford Bridge
- Low Place
- Rake Rigg
- Tongue Moor
- Great Gable
- Acre Hows
- Cockly Pike
- Dow Crag
- Fell End
- Gate Ho
- Lingmell
- Low Longrigg
- Pickle Coppice
- Tongue
- Boat How
- Commons Crag
- Great and Little
- Long-Rigg Green
- Pens End
- Randlehow
- Rough Crag
- Rough How
- Round How
- Row Head
- The Screes
- Slight Side
- Spout Ho
- Standing Stones