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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.

Hollin Root

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Etymology

, 1836KCR , ' holly root ' , v. holegn , ON  rót ' root ' , denoting the root and stump of a tree ; cf. the same p.n. elsewhere in We ( i , 147 supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name