Unlikely but not impossible? Ribblehead might just be a special case of addressing.

The new location for the node looks fine to me. I agree that 100 years ago it would definitely have been considered a hamlet (probably with a population in the hundreds for a time, if you also count those who lived here building the viaduct). I don’t think that makes the place a hamlet today though.

It’s definitely a well-known place name. Does labelling it as a locality not work for that — does it get hidden in Nominatim search, or something?