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Blennerhasset and Torpenhow is a civil parish in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 437, reducing to 423 at the 2011 Census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish population 2011 )〕 It includes the villages of Blennerhasset and Torpenhow at and the smaller settlement of Kirkland Guards at . The local pronunciation of Torpenhow is , which causes consternation to those living outside West Cumbria, who would use the more intuitive pronunciation . Blennerhasset is pronounced rather than the more intuitive . A Roman fort〔(Roman Britain )〕 is situated on the old Roman Road between Old Carlisle and Papcastle ==Etymology== 'Blennerhasset' derives from the Old Norse 'heysætr', 'hay shieling', which has been added to a British place-name containing 'blaen', 'top'. The '-er-' part in the middle " is best explained by Ekwall on the supposition that the full first element corresponded to Welsh 'blaen-dre', 'hill farm' ". ''Torpenhow'' was etymologized as "Tosti's howe" (with ''howe'' reflecting Old Norse ''haugr'' "hill, mound") in ''The place-names of Cumberland'' (1950),〔Armstrong, 1950, p.266〕 against a tradition identifying the name as an example of tautology in placenames, first proposed by Denton (1688).〔Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland, 1687-8, including descriptions of Westmorland, the Isle of Man and Ireland〕 Denton interpreted ''tor'', ''pen'' and ''how'' as three elements all with the base meaning "hill".〔Denton apprarently exaggerated the example to a "Torpenhow Hill", which would quadruple the "hill" element, but the existence of a toponym "Torpenhow Hill" is not substantiated. 〕 ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames'' (4th ed. 1960) accepted Denton's ''torr+pen+howe'' etymology (against the 1950s "Tosti" proposal), but notes that ''torr+penn'' is not tautological, but expresses the idea of "top or breast of the hill", to which ''howe'' was added in a (single) tautology.〔the same etymology is also accepted y David Mills, 2011, ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names''.〕 The local pronunciation of Torpenhow Village is , though the more intuitive pronunciation is also used. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blennerhasset and Torpenhow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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