Bearstone

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For sometime I have been wondering why the Bearstone at Roach End has that name (and why it had a
name and so many other rocks on the ridge didn't).

I'm now enlightened, having seen it in the right light.

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Ooh, isn't it just!
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Fran said:

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For sometime I have been wondering why the Bearstone at Roach End has that name (and why it had a
name and so many other rocks on the ridge didn't).

I'm now enlightened, having seen it in the right light.

# If you're enlightened and you know it clap one hand...

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Ooh, isn't it just!

Er no - it looks like a frost shattered erratic. Jeez I'm doing too much geology study at
the moment.

I can see why it gets the name - I'll sumbit Toad's mouth in the Peaks for consideration just as
soonas I go back and take a photo
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:54:17 GMT, [email hidden] (Chris

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I'm now enlightened, having seen it in the right light.

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Ooh, isn't it just!

Er no - it looks like a frost shattered erratic.

A bear? A BEAR? Nee way, its, its the face-on view of a beached dolphin if ever I saw one!!

Mind you that as a name just wouldn't have the same ring to it, would it?

But, its never a bear. Never, no, no, no.

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For sometime I have been wondering why the Bearstone at Roach End has that name (and why it had a
name and so many other rocks on the ridge didn't).

I'm now enlightened, having seen it in the right light.

meden.demon.co.ukBearstone.jpgOpen ↗ (31.3kb)

Very conclusive and excellent shot. I'll take a good look next time I'm down that way. That just
leaves Hen Cloud to explain!

Anthony

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That just leaves Hen Cloud to explain!

Hern Clud

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In article <[email hidden]>, Bootlaces <[email hidden]> writes

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That just leaves Hen Cloud to explain!

Hern Clud

But what does that translate to? Clud is an Old English word for a rock or hill, which somehow
changed meaning to cloud, but that still leaves Hen/Hern undeciphered. Referring to a dictionary I
see that hern is a dialect form of heron, but that doesn't seem appropriate to the context of Hen
Cloud. (I reckon that the various Heron hill/crag names in the Lake District are corruptions of
erne, in an older, more generic sense of eagle, rather than specifically sea eagle.)
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Steve Orrell said...

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(Chris Street) said:

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> I'm now enlightened, having seen it in the right light.

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Ooh, isn't it just!

Er no - it looks like a frost shattered erratic.

A bear? A BEAR? Nee way, its, its the face-on view of a beached dolphin if ever I saw one!!

Mind you that as a name just wouldn't have the same ring to it, would it?

But, its never a bear. Never, no, no, no.

The right hand bit is. I don't know quite what to make of the left hand bit. And yes, I can see your
beached dolphin TAAW.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley mused:

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<[email hidden]> writes

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That just leaves Hen Cloud to explain!

Hern Clud

But what does that translate to? Clud is an Old English word for a rock or hill, which somehow
changed meaning to cloud, but that still leaves Hen/Hern undeciphered. Referring to a dictionary I
see that hern is a dialect form of heron, but that doesn't seem appropriate to the context of Hen
Cloud. (I reckon that the various Heron hill/crag names in the Lake District are corruptions of
erne, in an older, more generic sense of eagle, rather than specifically sea eagle.)

Possibly also Hern(e) the hunter (an old 'god'😉.

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