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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.

Raise Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Grasmere

Historical Forms

  • Dunmail Raise Bridge 1708,1768 ib

Etymology

, 1825 Kend iii, 30 , Dunmail Raise Bridge 1708, 1768ib 172–3 , named from Dunmail Raise (Cu 312) and Raise Beck (i,12supra ) , v. hreysi ' cairn ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name