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==Spadeadam<!--[[Spadeadam]]redirects here-->== The Spadeadam area was remote and largely uninhabited and known as Spadeadam Waste.<ref>{{cite web|title=MoD Heritage Report 2011-2013|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470261/MOD_Heritage_Report_FINAL.pdf |publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] |page=6 |access-date=6 July 2016}}</ref> The name is possibly a corruption of [[Cumbric]] ''ysbyddaden'' "hawthorn", or "ysbytybrenin" "king's hostel", and in 1950 the recorded pronunciation was {{IPAc-en|s|p|Ιͺ|d|Ιͺ|d|Ιm}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Armstrong |first1=A. M. |last2=Mawer |first2=A. |last3=Stenton |first3=F. M. |last4=Dickins |first4=Bruce |series=English Place-Name society |volume=20 |title=The Place-names of Cumberland, Part 1: Eskdale, Cumberland and Leath Wards |date=1950 |location=Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press |pages=96β97 |language=en}}</ref> It is mentioned as "Speir Adam"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reed |first1=James |title=Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality |date=2014 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781472514110 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMBMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |access-date=5 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> or "Spear Edom" in "[[Hobie Noble]]".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Quiller-Couch |first1=Arthur |title=The Oxford Book of Ballads |date=1910 |chapter-url=https://www.bartleby.com/243/139.html |access-date=5 November 2019 |chapter=139. Hobbie Noble}}</ref>
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