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Last time I was in Cumbria I don't recall hearing much Old Norse being spoken. So how come all these hills have those anachronistic, old-fashioned names. 'Scafell'? What's wrong with plain, simple Cliff Hill? And don't get me started on those half-cocked jobbies like Cross Fell obviously a sop to try and please everyone but ends up pleasing no-one.

They didn't manage to get their hands on Torpenhow Hill.

Which is a suprise as it's been renamed by every man and his dog.

We've got Old English torr, Celtin penn and some more Old English hoh. All different ways of saying hill (or something similar)

If we add some Norse in there we can call it Torpenhollhow Hill.

Or just Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill.

Er, my history may be a bit hazy, but weren’t the Norse among the eariiest settlers of the wilder parts of Cumbria?? Thus the names.

Not unless they were hacking the pikes about for stone for their swords. The English are in charge now and place names need updating to reflect this. Westmorland has made a recent comeback but there's a long way to go still.

I’m appreciating your work here.

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Brocavum, original Roman name of Brougham. There's more, those vikings can do one, we want Roman names (who started the mining for lead and copper in the Lakes).

I suspect copper mining in the lakes goes back a couple of millennia before the Romans.

Scafell Pike is an interesting mixture. Scafell being thought to be derived from the Old Norse skaga "to jut out” and fjall "mountain”, and Pike a much later Middle English addition meaning "a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit".

So we have a name that means roughly "Prominent mountain mountain”

You're either trolling or missing the point completely. The Brigantes were here long before Agricola and his thugs walked in. If you go back even further everywhere was called 'Ugh'. When one caveman wanted to know where the next cave was the answer was always 'Ugh'. My point is that the English are top dogs now so everyone should use English names. Cumbria no, Lakelandshire yes.

And don't forget treacle mining and tripe quarrying in the Lancashire bit

I’m not really up on English archaeology. The Time Team excavated a pie midden but I think that was just to south of Lancashire.

Quite probably, just that they were known for it. 

I'd make a joke about present day Whitehaven, but it's not fair on cavemen.

Was it Wigan? I believe the ancient practice of casting pies into bogs is still adhered to there. Some of the crustiest specimens are on show and date back to the Bronze Age (around 1972 in Wigan)

Don't you go anglicising Trapenna to 'Torpenhow Hill'.

What about Ward's Knob?

 If you go back even further everywhere was called 'Ugh'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ughill

I believe the Welsh aren't keen on Lord Hereford's Knob?

Saddleback, no, just no.