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Oct 28, 2016 · Rising east of the now-buried River Walbrook, the City of London's Cornhill is the site of the Royal Exchange. The name Cornhill refers to the medieval corn market that once occupied its slopes...
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Some place-names give clues to the origins of the early settlers who founded the place. For example in the south of our region around Middlesbrough there are many place-names ending in the element ‘by’: Thornaby, Ormesby, Tollesby, Normanby, Danby, Lackenby, Lazenby, Maltby and so on. These ‘by’ names are all Viking – and usually Danish in origin, ...
Most place-names in England, including the North East of England are usually of Anglo-Saxon origin. The Angles and Saxons were a Germanic people closely related to the later Vikings. The original Anglo-Saxon coastal homelands stretched from Frisia and the Netherlands up to the present day border of Germany and Denmark. The Angles, for example, who ...
So, what about familiar names like Sunderland, Newcastle and Gateshead? Well the ‘separateness’ of Sunderland dates to Anglo-Saxon times and refers to land detached or ‘sundered’ from an estate by the King of Northumbria for the use of the Wearmouth monastery. The‘New’ Castleof Newcastle dates to Norman times, the first castle being built by Willia...
Ashington: ‘Ing’ usually means a kinship or tribal group and ‘ton’ usually means an enclosed settlement. On the surface Ashington looks like ‘the place belonging to the people of a person called Ash’ or something similar. However the earliest spelling in old records is ‘Aescen-denu’ and this is an Anglo-Saxon place-name that means ‘valley (a dene o...
The majority of place names of Viking origin can be found in the north and east of England, in the region known as the Danelaw, the west and north of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
In this article, we’ll give you a brief history of how English places got their names and highlight the origins of some of our favourites.
Nov 30, 2023 · Origin: English; Meaning: "a planet visible in the east just before sunrise; (poetic) the sun"
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