THE IRON MONGER
nails, screws, nuts and bolts
Supplier of household needs
Ace is now the place
Category Archives: Architecture
Jobs of Days Gone By #15. – The Sign writer
Jobs of Days Gone by #10 – the Sexton
THE SEXTON
A church caretaker
Sometimes dug graves for the dead
Often rang the bells
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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
