General Introduction

This is one of a series of ‘flights’ across  the Cumbrian parish of Asby, part of the ‘Westmorland Dales’ extension to the Yorkshire Dales National Park.  It is the second in a series of videos by members of the Asby History Group which uses Google Earth technology to explore the  historic landscape of the parish.  This presentation was originally made to members of the History Group by its Secretary, and local historian, Keith Cooper in May 2022.

“What’s in a Name (The Language of Landscape in Asby Parish)”

This recording focuses on a wider range of names of fields and landscape features in Asby Parish than was covered in the first video in this series, which looked at Byland Abbey’s lands.
It draws on historic documents, maps, local folk-memory, as well as studies of language and dialect, to shed new light on some familiar and some ‘lost’ landscape names in Asby Parish.

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