Dundraw
Sign in to saveDundraw is a hamlet and a civil parish near Abbeytown, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The hamlet is approximately three-and-a-half miles east of Abbeytown, nine-and-a-quarter miles south-east of Silloth-on-Solway, three-and-a-quarter miles north-west of Wigton, and fourteen miles south-west of Carlisle.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- The hamlet of Dundraw (geograph 3130026).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The hamlet of Dundraw
- UK place.official_name
- Dundraw
- UK place.population
- 174
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Dundraw
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cumberland
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cumbria
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Penrith and Solway
- UK place.post_town
- WIGTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- CA7
- UK place.postcode_area
- CA
- UK place.dial_code
- 016973
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY215497
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Allerdale
- UK place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Allerdale, Cumbria
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- The hamlet
- Governance
- Population
- Attractions
- Places of interest
- See also
- References
- External links
Dundraw is a hamlet and a civil parish near Abbeytown, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The hamlet is approximately three-and-a-half miles east of Abbeytown, nine-and-a-quarter miles south-east of Silloth-on-Solway, three-and-a-quarter miles north-west of Wigton, and fourteen miles south-west of Carlisle.
==Toponymy== The first part of the name is Brittonic drum-, which in etymological terms means "a ridge" (Welsh drum). The second element is *draɣïn, meaning "thorns" (Welsh draen). Alternatively, the name may be derived from Gaelic equivalents of the aforementioned words. The loss of the final syllable is attributed to Old Norse speakers substituting the first element, which Middle English speakers 'translated' as dræġ, meaning "a drag, a steep slope", omitting *–ïn as this was taken to be the Scandinavian suffixed definite article.