Rope Lake Head
Other OS name in the Parish of Kimmeridge
Historical Forms
- Rope Lake 1861 Hutch3
Etymology
, Rope Lake 1861 Hutch3 , perhaps ' stream or water-course neara rope of land ' , v. rāp , lacu , with hēafod , cf. Rope Ch 368 ; however , Arkell ( 1941 ) 37 suggests that the name may refer to a rope or rope ladder suspended here for climbing the cliff .