Talk:Drackenorth

Name

The reference provided in the article for the name "Drackenorth" (with a 'c') is the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map, yet none of my OS 1:50,000 maps of the area (dated 1979, 1987, 1993 and 2010) provide a name at all (unlike the 1:25,000 map, which names it "Drakenorth", without a 'c'). Is there a newer 1:50,000 map with "Drackenorth" labelled? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks PCW for checking this. I've worked it out. The reference should be to Ordnance Survey's Open Street Map which has the spelling "Drackenorth". There are 2 references to "Drakenorth" (but one is probably taken from the other) and one to "Drackenorth" (and I've also checked google books) so until we nail down the correct or more common spelling I'll leave it and just change the reference. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Names of more obscure hills often might throw up anomalies like this. Just to add to the nomenclatural variety, I was thinking I'd like to add the variant "Drag North", as mentioned by a published source (Portrait of Dorset by Ralph Wightman), but I'm not 100% sure I wouldn't be indulging in original research. The source states:

"Most of these delectable places are outside the chalk belt and are only mentioned here because of the strange road junction just outside Hooke on the edge of the chalk. The Ordnance map calls this spot Mount Pleasant, which is very suitable, but I have always known it as Drag North."

To me it looks like "Drag North" is a version of "Drackenorth", but the source only explicitly states that "Drag North" refers to the road junction (which is on the lower northeastern end of the summit ridge), rather than the hill itself. What do you think - would adding "Drag North" as an alternative name be indulging in OR? As an afterthought, regardless of whether it's OR or not, it does tend to lend favour to "Drackenorth" being more likely to be correct than "Drakenorth", due to the pronunciation being more similar to "Drag North" (Ralph Wightman was a Dorset native). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 08:06, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The plot thickens...! I think it's fine to add information based on a published source - I presume it's not OR unless we put our own slant on it.

I move back to Dorset next week and this is exactly the kind of area I'd like to explore. For a start I'd like to visit the place, take photos for the article and see if there's any local info on it that might shed light on the name and any interesting facts about the hill itself. Probably won't be able to get there until the summer though. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:28, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]