Talk:Bassenthwaite

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This section is ridiculous - and I am not surprised that it is drawn from the book on Lake District Place Names which is full of really silly so-called explanations.

If "Bastun" is Anglo-French then the whole construction is anachronistic because the Normans did not wield any influence before 1190ish. Nor (look at PASE) is there any evidence of anyone being called "Bastun" in England.

However there is evidence of people called Bass. And Tun is a common placename element. So it seems to me that the only reasonable explanation is that this is an Anglic placename (the tun = farmstead of someone called Bass) - this dating to before the attentions of the Vikings - to which has been appended "thwaite" suggesting that there was more tree clearing during Viking times, presumably to increase agricultural production (which is also in general why the Lakeland "fells" are so called). Freuchie (talk) 08:58, 1 August 2021 (UTC)