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Survey of English Place-Names

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Roper Castle or Round Table

Other OS name in the Parish of Brough

Historical Forms

  • Roper 1804,1806 PR(B)

Etymology

, 1863 OS , a cairn on the site of a Roman signal station at grid 84 – 882111 ( described in RCHM 217 ) , v. castel ; Roper is the name of the local family of John , Thomas and William Roper (1804, 1806 PR(B) 296, 298) , and Round Table is an allusion to King Arthur 's Round Table ( cf. Introd. ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name