To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; moose07; ArGee
Speaking of Midsomer Norton, while binge watching I was amused by the place names in the series enough to search some out. Came across this.
From...https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160309-why-does-britain-have-such-bizarre-place-names
Fascinating history of British place names.
288 posted on
06/23/2021 5:51:20 AM PDT by
Covenantor
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To: Covenantor
Some of those village names are absolutely wonderful!
293 posted on
06/23/2021 6:34:17 AM PDT by
Monkey Face
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To: Covenantor
Some of the village names they won’t be having on that site do cause some jocularity when travelling around.
We have an “Upper and Lower Slaughter” not too far from here.
304 posted on
06/23/2021 7:09:14 AM PDT by
moose07
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