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| PTsideshow:
Ok thanks, as to the cost that is what I thought. And the rest about what I guesstimated. Beats the coppers on the show having to repeat 39 hogs head lane each time it is mentioned. |
| Pete W.:
--- Quote from: PTsideshow on November 26, 2013, 09:02:08 AM ---SNIP Is every house, cottage and hall named? SNIP --- End quote --- Many years ago, someone I knew moved from East London to a village in Dorset. Their address there was 'Number 3, the Cottages opposite the Post Office'. It seemed to work - I suppose they have a Post-Code (aka Zip-Code) now! |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: angus on November 26, 2013, 12:23:27 PM --- do you live local to this place fergus? --- End quote --- No, we are peri-pathetic and commute between being next door to an asylum, a whisky trail( Scots, of course) and a cave where a one eyed, deaf Arab used to keep a village maiden( well that was her story) Norman |
| bp:
Some of the place names are delightful too. In 1970 I went to have a look at a "charming cottage" in Nether Wallop, there was also an Upper Wallop, Lower Wallop and of course Middle Wallop, there are probably more. This place was delightful, 4' thick stone walls, thatch roof, etc etc. Apparently built in the 1400s or thereabouts. Walking around the place I noticed that there appeared to be a 2' or 3' high levee bank around the boundary. Asking the real estate guy "what's that for?", he replied "In case the river floods", says I "...when was the last flood?", says he "1592". Ultimately I couldn't afford the place, but it was really delightful. Before we emigrated to Australia, my better half worked at a Solicitors office in Midsomer Norton. Just down the road was a place called Shepton Mallet. It goes on and on............ cheers Bill |
| vtsteam:
I used to live in Susan. A town in Virginia. Nearby was Shadow. Actually they didn't call them towns. They called them courthouses. And if you drove someone someplace it was called "carrying" them. So you might hear someone say, "I carried mumma down to Matthews courthouse to get a loaf of bread." Another nearby town was named Onemo. Pronounced Oh Nemo. But that was an affectation adopted only fifty years before when it had been pronounced One Mo, because it was just one more post office, and little more. Then there's Pennsylvania.......... ps. Forgot to mention another nearby town, Fort Nonsense. |
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