Sca Fell
Early-attested site in the Parish of Eskdale and Wasdale
Historical Forms
- (frithes or fences called) Skallfeild 1578 Cocker
- Scoffield-Rana 1750 Pococke
- the mountain Scofell or Scowfell 1794 H
Etymology
In spite of the 16th-century form Skallfeild , the second element here is clearly fiall . The first may well be the ON skalli , 'bald head.'Skalla-Grímr of Njálssaga was so nicknamed because he showed a bald head at an early age.
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