Talking about the Miller's Dale crag here, not Dovedale - I've always wondered about this.
In climbing guides it's always written as Raven Tor (singular, no 's') whereas on the National Trust signs around the crag it's always Ravens Tor, in fact it's written as one word: RAVENSTOR.
Discrepancies in place name spellings are really common all over the country. They go back way further than the present tendency to standardisation. I used to live on a road that had a different spelling on the signs at either end. Look at old maps or travel writing, even from within the last century, and a lot of names are not the same as what is on the signs today.
Yes but there must be one definite spelling, otherwise I'll have no-one to get angry at on here when they get it wrong and give me no chance of lording it over them with my supremacy. Ideally the name will have an apostrophe in it so I can put them right on that as well. Ravens' Torr would in fact be the ideal spelling for my purposes.
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