Sunkenkirk
Early-attested site in the Parish of Millom and Millom Rural
Historical Forms
- Chappell Suke 1624 PR
- Chapel Sucken 1642 HMCiv
- Sunken Kirks 1794 H
- Sunken-Kirk 1816 Lysons
Etymology
This is the site of a stone circle (v. CW ii, 57–76), to which the name may possibly refer.Unfortunately, the name does not seem to be found before the 17th century, and the original form and meaning cannot be determined.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Applehead
- Ash Ho
- Bankside
- Beck
- Beck Bank
- Beckfoot
- High Beckstones Mill
- Blea Moss
- Boadhole
- Boghouse
- Borwick Rails
- Bridge End
- Broadgate
- Buckman Hall
- Burnfield
- Crag Hall
- Crag Ho
- The Croft
- Cross
- Cross Ho
- Dashatgate
- Elf Hall
- Fenwick
- Graystone Ho
- The Green
- Hall Bank
- Hall Green
- Harrath
- Haws
- High Brow
- The Hill
- Hodbarrow
- Hole Ho
- Intake Wood
- Knottend
- Lady Hall
- Limestone Hall
- Low Ho
- Mains Brow
- Marshside
- Midlow Hill
- Mire Ho
- The Moor
- Moorend
- Moss Side
- New Field
- New Hall
- The Oaks
- Oxenbows
- Great Paddy Crag
- Pannatt Hill
- Parkhead
- Pikewell
- Po Ho
- Pohouse Bank
- Raylands
- Roanlands
- Scale Hook
- High, Middle and Low Shaw
- Slapestone
- Smallthwaite
- Spunham
- Stile Hill
- Stile Side
- Stoneside Hill
- Strands
- Tarnhead
- Under Hill
- Waterblean
- Whins
- Whitriggs Close
- Windy Slack
- Wood Ho
- Woods
- Millom Castle
- Arnaby Mill
- Duddon Bank
- Duddon Bridge
- Duddon Hall
- High Lowscales
- Thwaites Fell
- Thwaites Mill
- Thwaite Yeat
- Hallthwaites