Scraithegil
Early-attested site in the Parish of Loweswater
Historical Forms
- Sorachegil 1254 StB
- Scraithegil 1256 ib
Etymology
The meaning is 'ravine in which there has been a landslide.' The second element is gil, the first is ON skreið , standing in ablaut relation to skriða , 'landslip,' which is recorded as an Icelandic place-name (Kålund ii, 225). The word skreið seems to occur in Scrafield (L), for which there are numerous medieval forms showing -ei - in the first element. See also under Burnhope Seat (supra 176).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Kirkhead
- Latterhead
- Marshalflate and Serganteshou
- Mockerkin
- Sosgill
- Starling Dodd, Dodd and Little Dodd
- Thackthwaite
- Waterend