Legburthwaite
Early-attested site in the Parish of St John's, Castlerigg and Wythburn
Historical Forms
- Legberthwait 1303 Ipm
- Legburgthwayte 1530 FF
- Legbortwhat, Legbourtwhat 1563 PR(Crosth)
- Legberthwayte 1573 FF
- Leigburtwhaite 1602 PR(Crosth)
- Lekburnthuayte 1487 Ipm
- Leybarthwaite 1552 FF
Etymology
This is probably 'þveitat Leggr 's be(o)rg,' a personal name found also in Legsby (L). The absence of the genitival inflexion in northern England is not unusual. The disappearance by 1303 of the middle of three consonants is quite explicable.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Armboth
- Calfhow Pike
- Castlerigg Manor
- Dry Stone Knott
- Dunmail Raise
- Fornside
- 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