If anyone is interested in the deep etymology of this name: I have just come across a paper which includes an excellent detailed discussion relevant to it. The paper is "Insular Etymologies: Indo-European and Substrate Coastal Terminology in Finnic and Saami", by Merlijn de Smit (2017). It is available on academia.edu. Well worth reading, in my view, although it has nothing to do with specifically English place-names.
Martin Counihan
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