StoneGloves wrote: No - that's what the hills used to be called.
That's the Old English spelling - or the way it's rendered nowadays. Other versions, seen in placenames particularly, are Law, Lowe and Howe. 'Lowenbrau' - Round hills brewery (perhaps). Sometimes the hills have two names, a local one and an official one. Our hill in Bolton - entirely geological though it has a barrow on its flank - is both known as Sugarloaf Hill, to Boltonians, and Brown Lowe, to Ordnance Survey.
Blakey, the name, still associates with the On The Buses inspector, for me.
A-ha, that's what "Hlaw" is, thanks for that. Now you come to mention it, I should have known that from "eordburgh-hlaw".
"Sugarloaf" is also the English name for Pen-y-Fal in the Black Mountains.
Brown Lowe or Sugarloaf? Which would be the older name? I suppose the answer may depend on when sugar-loaves were invented. "What's that funny looking loaf you've made there Elsie? Looks just like Brown Lowe".
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