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Survey of English Place-Names

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Pike How

Other OS name in the Parish of Windermere

Historical Forms

  • the piked how 1614 Wndm

Etymology

, 1859OS , the piked how 1614Wndm 300 , ' pointed hill ' , v. pīced , haugr .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name