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.

Castle Howe

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasmere

Etymology

, 1865 OS , v. castel ( here referring to a scar thought to resemble an old collapsed fortification ) , haugr .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name