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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Cammock Rigg

Other OS name in the Parish of Askerton

Etymology

. Cf. Cammockhill 1601Survey . The first element is probably the word cammock , earlier cambok , used of a crooked staff , but deriving ultimately from the same source as Cam Beck supra 7 . It is here applied to the shape of the hill .