Troutbeck

English

Etymology

From trout +‎ beck (“stream”), from Old English truht + Old Norse bekkr.

Proper noun

Troutbeck

1. A hamlet in Hutton parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England, situated on the Trout Beck (OS grid ref NY3826).
   • 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

     Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

2. A village in Lakes parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, on another Trout Beck (OS grid ref NY4003).
3. A village in Manicaland, Zimbabwe.

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