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.
Survey of English place-names
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The Heads
The Heads
Other OS name in the Parish of Keswick
Historical Forms
the heades
1629
ib
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
the
heades
1629 ib .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Derwent Isle
Lairthwaite
Isthmus Bay and Wood
Brigham
Great Crosthwaite
Other OS name
High Hill
Little Crosthwaite
Bristowe Hall
Browtop
Chestnut Hill
Cockshot Wood
Crow Park
Friar's Crag
Greta Hall
Druid's Circle
The Headlands
Kiddams
Monk Hall(lost)
Town Cass
Major Settlement
Keswick
