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Category Archives: Architecture
Unusual U.K. place names 76. – Cleobury Mortimer
CLEOBURY MORTIMER, Shropshire
Name from Old English
Clifu meaning a steep place
Church has crooked spire
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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 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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Unusual UK place names 61. – Over
OVER, South Gloucestershire
Over Court burned down
The White Lady of Over
Haunts each New Year’s Eve
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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 names 20. – Lychett Matravers
LYCHETT MATRAVERS
Lichett means grey Wood
Feudal Lord Hugh Maltravers
Name from Brittonic
Note: To explore these unusual place names, I urge readers to visit Google Earth to see where on earth they are situated and then to visit Wikipedia for expanded historical information. All of this is difficult to convey in just 17 syllables.
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Unusual U.K. place names 11. Cricket St. Thomas
CRICKET ST. THOMAS
In the Domesday book
Near Yeovil, south Somerset
To the manor born
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Obscure words explained 43. – caliginous
CALIGINOUS
Dim weather outside
It’s a dark and stormy night
porch light dispels gloom
