Pen, Penn

A hill either as a prefix, suffix or as part of the name [D.A.]

Etymology

Pen is a Brythonic or Cumbric word for hill, as in the name Penrith.
It has been absorbed into both name of hills and of place-names.
Pennsylvania means a wooded or forested hill.
Penicuik means the Hill of The Cuckoo.
Torpenhow Hill is rather an extreme as all four syllables mean hill…..[D.A.]

Example locations

• Penrith
  Cumbria
• Penicuik
  Midlothian, Scotland
• Pendle
  East Lancashire

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Entry contributors:

Derek Angleis