Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Ermitthweyt 1272 For

• Ermithueyt 1285 ib

• Ermytweyte 1300 GDR

• Ermythuayt 1394 Pat

• Ermethueyt, Ermethwayt 1285 For 1396 Cl 1434 Pat

• Elmetthwayt 1363 ib

• Erminthweyt 1285 For

• Armynthwayt 1536 LP

• Armanthwaite 1576 S

• Hermitweyt 1300 GDR

• Girmethwayte (sic print) 1475 Pat

• forestam 1540 AOMB

• Armonthwhaite Bridge 1717 PR(Ainstable)

• molend. de Armathwaite 1619 ExchKR

• millne att Armethwait 1665 LRMB

• Ermethueytbankes 1285 For

• Armathwaite Banckes 1650 ParlSurv

Etymology

This name is obviously of the same origin as Armathwaite supra 168.It is possible that two hermitages may have arisen independently of each other two miles apart. But it is on the whole more probable that the present Armathwaite derived its name from the property which the nuns of Armathwaite in Ainstable possessed in the immediate neighbourhood, where their memory is still preserved in the name Nunclose infra 206. Cf. also Armathwaite infra 263 and del Ermethwayt 1342 AD iv, a field-name in Mansergh (We).