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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bow Mabble Breast & Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Kendal

Etymology

, 1857OS , the name of a hill ; breast may be ME  brest ( OE  brēost ) ' breast ' , used figuratively of a hill , or , as Ekwall has suggested for Limebrest(La 158, 264) , an ON equivalent of Norw  dial. brest ' slope ' ; cf. Breast yoats ( i , 188 infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name