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On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:06:13 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> England and Scotland have something like ten River Avons.
>> The classic has got to be Torpenhow Hill ...
> 
> Torpenhow is a real village in Cumbria. It may etymologize to ‘hill hill
> ridge’, although that is not the only theory and while it does seem to
> be on a gentle slope, ‘ridge’ quite obviously does not fit.

Does 'howe' as in tumulus figure into it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus

'Barrow' appears to be the English term rather than the Norse 'haugr'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haugr

You've got to watch those haugrs; draugrs tend to hang around them.