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Unusual U.K. place names75. Come to Good

Come to Good, Cornwall

Cwm ty Coit Cornish

Thought to mean coombe in the wood

Quaker it turns out


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Unusual U.K. place names 69. = Trewhiddle

TREWHIDDLE, Cornwall

Francis P. Pascoe

noted entomologist

studied beetles here


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Unusual U.K. place names 67. – Perranzabuloe

PERRANZABULOE, Cornwall

Medieval Latin

Perranus in sabulo

Piran in the sand


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Unusual U.K. place names 64. – Claxby Pluckacre

CLAXBY PLUCKACRE, Lincolnshire

Medieval village

Was deserted long ago.

Had church which fell down


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Unusual U.K. place names 63. -Leigh de la Mere

LEIGH de la MERE (St. Margaret), Wiltshire

King Alfred camped here

Attacked Danes at Eddington

Saxon king’s palace


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Unusual U.K. place names 62. – Petty France

PETTY FRANCE, Gloucestershire

Not remrkable

not much history to tell

not written, that is.


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Unusual U.K. place names 65. – Uttoxeter

UTTOXETER, Staffordshire

Varied history

Luttuc’s homestead on the heath

Roman garrison


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Obscure words explained 81. quiddity

UIDDITY

\The whatness of stuff

The essential quality

Of what something is


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Unusual U.K. place names 56. – Ormesby

ORMESBY, Yorkhire

Viking settlement

Home to the Pennyman’s

Free to the public

 


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Unusual U.K. place names 53. – Moreton in Marsh

MORETON in MARSH, Gloucestershire

Farmstead on the moor

Romans, Saxons came after

Iron-age settlers