Castle Rock
Other OS name in the Parish of St John's, Castlerigg and Wythburn
Historical Forms
- Castle-rocks 1784 West
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is Castle-rocks 1784 West . This is probably so named from its appearance , and is the fairy castle of Scott 's Bridal of Triermain . Mr W . G . Collingwood (CW xvi) assets that the name is not due merely to the appearance of the rock . He describes the ruin of a small building actually on the rock which may have been a ' borg ' or castle before Norman times , and have been the reason why the word ' castle ' eventually came to be an element in the name of the place .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Armboth
- Calfhow Pike
- Castlerigg Manor
- Dry Stone Knott
- Dunmail Raise
- Fornside
- Legburthwaite
- Lord's Island
- Naddle
- Setmabanning
- Shoulthwaite
- Shundraw
- Smaithwaite
- Sosgill
- Thirlspot
- Ullock Coppice
- Wanthwaite
- Wythburn
Other OS name
- Castlerigg Brow
- Castlerigg Fell
- Shoulthwaite Moss
- Smaithwaite Bridge
- Wythburn Chapel
- Adam's Cross
- Bank
- Barrow Ho
- Beckthorns
- Bell Craggs
- Birkett Bank
- Birkett Mire
- The Bog
- Bramcrag
- High and Low Bridgend
- Bridge Ho
- Broadstones
- Brotto
- Brownbeck
- Brown Rigg
- Buck Castle
- Burns
- The Butts
- Calfclose Bay
- Causeway Foot
- Cherrytree
- The City
- Clark's Leap
- Dale Bottom
- Dalehead Hall
- Dodd Crag
- Eddy Grave Stake
- Falcon Crag
- Fieldside
- Fisher Place
- Flour Gill
- Goose Well
- Great How
- Green
- Hill Top
- Hollin Brow
- Hollin Root
- Howgate
- Lady's Rake
- Lowthwaite
- Mire Ho
- Moor
- Moss Dikes
- Nab Crags
- Nest
- Nook
- Pietnest
- Pinfold How
- Raise
- Rakefoot
- Rampsholme Island
- Round Mount
- Row End
- Shaw Bank
- Smithy Ho
- Snipes How
- Stable Hills
- Stanah
- Standing Crag
- Steel End
- Stenkin
- Stenoch
- Sticks Pass
- Stybarrow Dod
- Stybeck
- The Swirls
- Wallow Crag
- Watson's Park
- West Head
- White Pike
- Yewhow Wood
- Yew Tree
- Yew Tree Cottage