Dry Stone Knott
Early-attested site in the Parish of St John's, Castlerigg and Wythburn
Historical Forms
- le Dristanknot, Drystanknot 1303 Cl
Etymology
'Rocky hill,' v. cnotta (under knǫtt ), or possibly 'cairn of dry stones.'The earliest quotation given in NED for 'dry' in the sense 'without mortar' is dated 1816, and the forms quoted above are two centuries earlier than any example of this usage in Craigie's Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Armboth
- Calfhow Pike
- Castlerigg Manor
- Dunmail Raise
- Fornside
- Legburthwaite
- Lord's Island
- Naddle
- Setmabanning
- Shoulthwaite
- Shundraw
- Smaithwaite
- Sosgill
- Thirlspot
- Ullock Coppice
- Wanthwaite
- Wythburn
Other OS name
- Castlerigg Brow
- Castlerigg Fell
- Shoulthwaite Moss
- Smaithwaite Bridge
- Wythburn Chapel
- Adam's Cross
- Bank
- Barrow Ho
- Beckthorns
- Bell Craggs
- Birkett Bank
- Birkett Mire
- The Bog
- Bramcrag
- High and Low Bridgend
- Bridge Ho
- Broadstones
- Brotto
- Brownbeck
- Brown Rigg
- Buck Castle
- Burns
- The Butts
- Calfclose Bay
- Castle Rock
- Causeway Foot
- Cherrytree
- The City
- Clark's Leap
- Dale Bottom
- Dalehead Hall
- Dodd Crag
- Eddy Grave Stake
- Falcon Crag
- Fieldside
- Fisher Place
- Flour Gill
- Goose Well
- Great How
- Green
- Hill Top
- Hollin Brow
- Hollin Root
- Howgate
- Lady's Rake
- Lowthwaite
- Mire Ho
- Moor
- Moss Dikes
- Nab Crags
- Nest
- Nook
- Pietnest
- Pinfold How
- Raise
- Rakefoot
- Rampsholme Island
- Round Mount
- Row End
- Shaw Bank
- Smithy Ho
- Snipes How
- Stable Hills
- Stanah
- Standing Crag
- Steel End
- Stenkin
- Stenoch
- Sticks Pass
- Stybarrow Dod
- Stybeck
- The Swirls
- Wallow Crag
- Watson's Park
- West Head
- White Pike
- Yewhow Wood
- Yew Tree
- Yew Tree Cottage