QUAMBA, Kanabec County Minnesota
formerly Mud Creek
changed to an Ojibway word
Quamba means mud hole
Category Archives: Rivers
Unusual USA place names 4. – Koo Chi Ching
KOO CHI CHING, Koo Chi Ching County, Minnesota
Sounds Chinese some say
but these are Ojibway words
The place of inlets
Note: The inlets being on Rainy lake and the Rainy River
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Unusual U.K. place names 82. – Market Rasen
MARKET RASEN, Linolnshire
Name from Old English
Raesn meaning a plank bridge
over River Rase
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Unusual U.K. place names 77. – Curry Rivel
CURRY RIVEL, Somersetshire
Site of Roman house
Name comes from Celtic crwy
meaning boundary
Note: Rivel from its landlord Sir Richard Revel
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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
Unusual U.K. place names 65. – Uttoxeter
UTTOXETER, Staffordshire
Varied history
Luttuc’s homestead on the heath
Roman garrison
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Unusual U.K. place names 52. – Wensleydale
WENSLEYDALE, Yorkshire
Home to the Metcalfe clan
named after Woden’s meadow
Famous for its cheese
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Unusual U.K. place names29. _ Droitwich Spa
DROITWICH (SPA), Worcestershire
Famous for its salt
Romans named it Salinae
On River Salwarpe
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Unusual U.K. place names 26. – Bishop’s Stortford
BISHOP’S STORTFORD, Hertfordshire
An historic town
at a ford crossing the Stort
river flowing through
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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