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Survey of English Place-Names

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Tenter Howe

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Historical Forms

  • Tenter how 1738 Rent1 1836 KCR

Etymology

, Tenter how 1738Rent 1, 1836KCR , ME  tentour ' a cloth tenter ' , v. haugr ' hill ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name