Following an 1853 article by Arthur Hussey,[REF] it has become a common belief that the name derives from a passage in The Description of Britain (), an infamous historical forgery concocted by Charles Bertram in the 1740s and accepted as genuine until the 1840s.
Various towns and geographical features within the Pennines retain Celtic names, including Penrith, the fell Pen-y-ghent, the River Eden, and the area of Cumbria.