Sosgill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Loweswater
Historical Forms
- Solrescales c.1203 StBA n.d.
- Saurestatts 1209 FF
- Saurescoles 1230 Scotland
- Sourescal 1278 Ass
- Sourscales 1301 Pat
- Sorescale 1507 Cocker
- Soskell 1609 CWxxxi
- Sosgill 1782 PR(Lamplugh)
Etymology
'Muddy shieling,' or 'shielings,' v. saurr , skáli . The first l in the first form is presumably an inverted spelling for u . The second element was obscured through lack of stress and confused with gil .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Kirkhead
- Latterhead
- Marshalflate and Serganteshou
- Mockerkin
- Scraithegil
- Starling Dodd, Dodd and Little Dodd
- Thackthwaite
- Waterend