Lahepea (Lahepea)

Over/On the bight, gulf, cove, inlet (Bight heights?...) would be today’s translation and seems to be named after a former village on the S shore of Kopli bay, first recorded (DEPn) as Laddienpeh, Ladwenpe (1440) and Laddipe (1592). But there is some uncertainty between this and Tiskre, a village on the S shore of Kakumäe bay some 6 km WNW. Both present similar features: a village with a river flowing NW into the bay, so confusion is understandable. While Lahepea village has often (and almost certainly erroneously) been positioned at the mouth of the river Tiskre and the (now probably dried-up) river itself called variously Lafddienpäh or Laddenpähe, the village Tiskre seems not to have suffered such ignominy. Since Laddienpe, the locality, not river, was indicated in 1631 as on a beach close to Harku lake, the nearest one would indeed be on Kopli bay (see Õismäe). Also northernmost section of the Kõrgepinge bicycle- and foot-path. See Lahe.