Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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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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Obscure words explained 69. – shilly shally

SHILLY SHALLY

What is to be done

I am vacillitating

I can not decide


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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


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Unusual U.K. places names25. – Stert

STERT, Wiltshire

On the Devises

Andover road diversion

of Etchilhampton hill


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Obscure words explained 68. – atiptoe

ATIPTOE

eagerly waiting

Anticipating desired

event to happen


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Unusual U.K. place names 24. – Tortworth

TORTWORTH, – Gloucestershire

Tortworth chestnut tree

Of fifty great British trees

chosen for the Queen


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Unusual U.K. place names 23. – Woolfardsdisworthy

WOOLFARDSDISWORTHY, Devon-shire

pronounced Woolsery

Anglo-Saxon Wulfheard’s home

Nice place to visit

 

 


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Unusual U.K. place names 22. – Cam

CAM, Gloucestershire

Is a large village

Bigger than neighbor Dursley

which has town status


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Obscure words explained 67. – Flâneur

FLÂNEUR

From the French, flaner

An idler or foppish, man.

Shows disdain for work


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Obscure words explained66. – Deipnosophist

DEIPNOSOPHIST

A good dinner guest

Great conversationalist

They don’t eat their words