Did You Know? Pendle Hill

Welcome to yet another new series on my blog. In it I hope to share the most trivial of facts with you.

Pendle Hill is located near my wife's hometown of Burnley in the north-west of England. It's famous for its association with the Pendle Witches. However, its name is unusual because it means the same thing in three different languages. In the 13th century it was known as Pennul or Penhul, which was derived from the Cumbric - an extinct Celtic language - pen and the Old English hyll, and both mean "hill". When the name evolved into Pendle and the meaning became opaque, the Modern English Hill was added.

Now, isn't that interesting?