AWRE, Gloucestershire
Name from Old English
meaning sour water meadow
Cows had long faces
Category Archives: Anglo-Saxons
Unusual U.K. place names 56. – Ormesby
Unusual U.K. place names54. – Wyre Piddle
WYRE PIDDLE, Worcestershire
famous brewery
Brewed “Piddle in the Hole” beer
On Piddle Brook
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Obscure words explained 77. – fictile
Unusual U.K. place names 53. – Moreton in Marsh
MORETON in MARSH, Gloucestershire
Farmstead on the moor
Romans, Saxons came after
Iron-age settlers
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Unusual U.K. place names 53. – Kirkcudbright
KIRKCUDBRIGHT, kirlcudbrightshire
Pronounced kirk Coo Bree
Meaning chapel of Cuthbert
He is buried here
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Unusual U.K. place names 58. – Godmanchester
GODMANCHESTER, Cambridgeshire
Durovigtum
Settled by Celts and Saxons.
An old Roman town
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Unusual U.K. place names 50. – Sampford Brett
SAMPFORD BRETT, Somersetshire
Name from sandy ford
and Brett family Manor
later, the Courtney’s
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Unusual U.K. place names 49. – Ilchester
ILCHESTER, Somersetshire
Rome’s name Lindinis*
Saxon name Givelcestre
Fort on Yeo river
- Sometimes Lendinis
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Unusual U.K. place names48. – Sticklepath
STICKLEPATH, Devonshire
Granite tors rise high
Which has very high rainfal
causing bogs to form
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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