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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.

Rampart Head

Other OS name in the Parish of Bowness

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) , “ on the West Side of ye Old Wall ( i.e. Hadrian 's Wall ) which ends at ye Rampart Head ” 1709 CW xxxv .