Skylarks and Laverocks

Well I never, how poetic - I bet everyone else knew that a Laverock was a skylark.

To get to the images of Laverock How go to Ann Bowker's website http://www.keswick.u-net.com/ click on the link with the 'Hot' icon, then scroll down to the bottom of the page where you'll find .... other recent pictures. The fell you desire is 'Ponsonby Fell' and there you will find Laverock How on the walk from Gosforth Church. This is a fantastic website and keeps me going through the long week in Wigan, until we can get to the Lakes at the weekend. I can look at any of the summits in the Lakes, anytime and swoon over their loveliness.... anyway think I'm getting a bit carried away now, but you know what I mean.



Another fascinating link is http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sw.rae/fells.htm for anyone who is interested in the origin of the name of their favourite fell. For instance did you know that Causey Pike is the peak above the causeway. The reference is probably to the Roman road which ran across the low-lying land between Crosthwaite and Braithwaite and which appears in 1280 as 'le chaucey', the causeway.O.E. plc (O.N. pik). And as for your qery about Swirl How ... A Norwegian dialect word 'svirle', to swirl or whirl around, suggests that there may have been an O.N. word of similar meaning. This fell could appropriately be described as 'the hill where the wind swirls round'. How = O.N. haugr. So there you are.

NLN