Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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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 68. – Ponsanooth

PONSANOOTH, cornwall

Cornish Pons an Woodh

meaning the bridge at the stream

Near Kennal river


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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 66. – Mavis Enderby

MAVIS ENDERBY, Lincolnshire
Brides of Enderby
Peal out a warning
When danger is imminent


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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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Icing on the lake

ICING ON THE LAKE

The red flag has popped

A Northern is on the line

Ice hole refreezes


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Obscure words explained 84. – toponym

TOPONYM

Word for a place name

Especially one derived

from local features