Nichols Moss & Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Beetham
Historical Forms
- le Knykeles 1280 FF 1354 ChancM
- Knickles 1631 Dep
Etymology
Nichols Moss (1845TA ) & Wood (1857OS ), le Knykeles 1280FF , 1354ChancM , Knickles 1631Dep . The name refers to two small hillocks between the Winster and Nichols Moss. The first el. is probably an ON *knykill , probably the source of the Faroese word knykil , which is used of 'a rounded hill-top' as in the p.ns. Knyklarnir , Undir Knyklunum (Matras, FærN 179), and various other related words like ON knjúkr , Norw dial. knyk , etc. are also used of 'a peak, a hill-top' (cf. Jóhannesson 212, 335); the cognate OE cnucel means 'knuckle' and OE gecnycled 'bent, crooked', but a topographical extension of meaning 'knobbed, knobbly' occurs in Sir Gawayn l. 2166 in the phrase ruʒe knokled knarreʒ 'rough, knobbly rocks'.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Black Dyke
- Blackstone Point
- Briar Field
- Copridding Wood
- Dobshall Wood
- Frith Wood
- Grubbins Wood
- Hagg Wood
- Hare Parrock
- Heathwaite
- The Birks
- Arnbarrow
- Atkinson's Bridge
- Beetham Bridge, Fell, Hall, Mill, & Park
- Broom Field
- Burntbarrow Plant
- Carr Bank
- Chapel Hill
- Cornthwaite
- Crag Mount
- Creep i' th' Call Bridge
- Dallam Wheel
- Deepdale Ho
- Dick Fell Hill
- Dolly Wood
- Ellers
- Elmsfield
- Farleton Beck, Bridge, Fell, & Knott
- Fell End
- Fiery Ho
- Friar Cote
- Hale Fell, Green, Head, & Moss
- Higging Head
- High Cote
- Hodgson's Bridge
- Hollins Well
- Holme Beck
- Kiln-, Green, Kiln Hall
- Knotts Hill
- Longthroughs Wood
- Low Ho
- Marsden Fm
- Milnthorpe Sands
- Moor Rigg
- Moss Hall
- The Park
- Pool Darkin
- Puddle Mire
- Pye's Bridge Fm
- St John's Chapel & Cross
- St Michael's Church & Well
- Saltmarsh
- Sandside
- Shaw Ho
- Slack Head
- Sunny Hall Wood
- Tarn Bank & Close
- Temple Bank
- Thompson's Bridge
- Thrang End Bridge
- Throughs Lane
- Townend Fm
- Underlaid Wood
- Waterhouse Mill
- Whinscar Plant
- Wood Edge
- Wray
- Birkswood
- Crag Wood
- Highstock Bridge
- Longriddings Wood
- Meathop Fell, Marsh, Moss, & Park
- Salt Marsh
- Askew Green
- Bark Ho
- Beck Head
- Bellart How
- Birks
- Bleacott
- Bleacrag Bridge
- Boat Bridge
- Bowes Lodge
- Bowgreave Busk
- Buckhouse Wood
- Burns Bridge
- Cat Crag
- Crag Wood
- Elleray Coppy
- Fell End
- Fern Hill
- Foulshaw
- High Yeat
- Holy Well
- Key Moss
- Kirket Nook
- Knot Wood
- Lawns Ho
- Levens Hollin
- Long Howe
- Low Wood
- Moss Howe
- Nether Hall
- Park Wood
- Salt Marsh
- Slate Hill
- Spa Ho(lost)
- Strickland Hill
- Stripe Bridge
- Town End
- Witherslack Hall
- Yewbarrow
- Arnside Knott, Moors & Park
- Inglemere
- Middlebarrow Hill
- New Barns
- Red Hills
- Salt Marsh
- Stonycroft
- Uplands
- Wood Head
- Turner Hill
- Hollins Fm