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Survey of English Place-Names

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Wind Gap

Other OS name in the Parish of Ennerdale and Kinniside

Historical Forms

  • le Windʒate 1322 Cl

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is le Windʒate 1322 Cl . Cf. le Wyndeyaterigg 1338 ib . ' Pass through which the windsweeps . ' The early forms are from OE  windgeat , recorded in BCS 1066 and found also in Winnats (Db) .