English Place-name Society

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.

Brandy Crag

Other OS name in the Parish of Ulpha

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Miss M . C . Fair notes that this name preserves the memory of a cache for smuggled goods brought from Ravenglass along the ancient packhorse road south of the Esk to Penny Hill .