Baxter Rash
Other OS name in the Parish of Lowther
Historical Forms
- Baxter 1672–1737 PR
Etymology
, 1859OS , named from the local family of Baxter (1672–1737 PR 44, etc.) ; dial . rash sometimes denotes ' a narrow piece of arable land left uncultivated ' ( which would seem to be the case here ) , but in p. ns . it also sometimes describes a narrow strip of rocky or overgrown ground ( as in TheRash infra ) as well as a rush - bed .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Horseholme Wood
- Jack Croft
- Lowther Castle
- Park Ho
- Round Hill
- Andrew's Loom
- Ashley Moor
- Brackenhill Wood
- Buckholme Wood
- Burnbank Dubbs
- Burtree Bank & Scar
- Butts Sike
- Carterhow Wood
- Castlesteads
- Cragside Wood
- Croftgrime
- Decoy Hag & Pond
- Greatholme Plant
- Greenriggs Sike
- Hackthorpe Hall
- Hag Well
- In Scar
- Long Cairn
- Low Moor
- Lowther Park
- Morris Brow
- Newtown
- Peg Huck Well
- The Rash
- Rowlandfield Plant., Rowland's Lum
- Scar Plant
- Short Wood
- Skellands Pond
- Trainford Brow
- Warrengill Plant
- Waterfalls Road
- Whale Beck
- Whale Crag
- Whalemoor