HUISH EPISCOPI, Somersetshire
Outskirts of langport
Belonged to bishop of Wells
Somerset Levels
Category Archives: Agriculture
Unusual U.K. place names 31 – Bungay
BUNGAY, Suffolkshire
Called Bucincga Haye
after Bonna, Saxon chief
Now a market town
Note: Met a fellow from Bungay yesterday so I decided to write this piece.
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Obscure words explained 71. – hibernaculum
HIBERNACULUM
Winter quarters, home.
Such as a squirrel’s Drey nest
both warm and cosy
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Unusual U.K. place names 30. – Wychbold Salwarpe
WYCHBOLD SALWARPE, Worcestershire
Salwarpe called Salop
Battlefield and Spadesbourne
where the rivers join
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Unusual U.K. place names28. – Pucklechurch
PUCKLECHURCH, Gloucestershire
Bronze-age round barrow
Saxon royal villa site
Kingdom of Wessex
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Unusual U.K. place names27. – Wickwar
WICKWAR, Gloucestershire
Name from Winchen means
dairy farm, owned by Norman*
la Warre family
- John la Warre given Winchen by King John and mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086. Still owned by Roger la Warre in 1285.
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Unusual U.K. place names 26. – Bishop’s Stortford
BISHOP’S STORTFORD, Hertfordshire
An historic town
at a ford crossing the Stort
river flowing through
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Unusual U.K. places names25. – Stert
Unusual U.K. place names 24. – Tortworth
TORTWORTH, – Gloucestershire
Tortworth chestnut tree
Of fifty great British trees
chosen for the Queen
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Unusual U.K. place names 23. – Woolfardsdisworthy
WOOLFARDSDISWORTHY, Devon-shire
pronounced Woolsery
Anglo-Saxon Wulfheard’s home
Nice place to visit
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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