Torpenhow Hill

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Torpenhow Hill is a hill about 200 metres above sea level in Cumbria in north west England on the side of which the village of Torpenhow is situated, close to the A595 between Cockermouth and Carlisle.

Its main claim to fame is that its name is highly redundant. "Tor", "pen", and "how" all mean "hill" in different languages. The theory is that successive residents took the previous residents' name for the hill and added their own word for hill. This concept is known as a tautology - see also other tautological place names.