Parsnip Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 At me mum's this morning and she had the kind of book out that you'd expect a 70 odd year old woman to have out on a Saturday afternoon. The AA guide to place name origins 1984. Quite interesting actually... Derby, the Village of Deer. Nottingham, home of the Snot people. Mansfield, just a big tit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Round us we have Romsey. Comes from Rums Eg. Apparently Saxon for Rums area. And Chandler's Ford. Dates from c1978 and is derived from the name given to Barry's Capri ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramslad1992 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 I’m from a place called sleaford... there’s a river slea and some where there’s a ford in it hence sleaford. Quite boring really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 24 minutes ago, Ramslad1992 said: I’m from a place called sleaford... there’s a river slea and some where there’s a ford in it hence sleaford. Quite boring really! Have the mods been informed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 8 hours ago, Pastinaak said: At me mum's this morning and she had the kind of book out that you'd expect a 70 odd year old woman to have out on a Saturday afternoon. The AA guide to place name origins 1984. Quite interesting actually... Derby, the Village of Deer. Nottingham, home of the Snot people. Mansfield, just a big tit. Spelling mistake mate, should of been Derby, village of beer...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 4 hours ago, Ramslad1992 said: I’m from a place called sleaford... there’s a river slea and some where there’s a ford in it hence sleaford. Quite boring really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 most place names derive from a fairly simple and obvious description of a place e.g. Quarndon - from quorn (edible fungus) and don meaning hill i.e the hill with the edible fungus. similarly chaddesdon - from chad meaning faeces and don meaning hill Chester or cester meaning from the Roman or romany for fortified encampment, so Chesterfield - a Roman encampment in a field - or Doncaster - a fortified Roman camp on a hill, or Leicester - a lea or woodland clearing populated by gypsies. Other meanings are slightly more obscure E.g. Belper - which just means a "good fart". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 4 hours ago, RamNut said: most place names derive from a fairly simple and obvious description of a place e.g. Quarndon - from quorn (edible fungus) and don meaning hill i.e the hill with the edible fungus. similarly chaddesdon - from chad meaning faeces and don meaning hill Chester or cester meaning from the Roman or romany for fortified encampment, so Chesterfield - a Roman encampment in a field - or Doncaster - a fortified Roman camp on a hill, or Leicester - a lea or woodland clearing populated by gypsies. Other meanings are slightly more obscure E.g. Belper - which just means a "good fart". Shame.... We were always taught at school that Belper was from Norman French meaning a "beautiful retreat". From "beau" or the feminine "belle" and "repair". So it's where the norman knights went when off duty as there were more pubs and comely wenches. Obviously now the meaning has become corrupted over the years so a "belle repair" is now as likely to refer to a particularly well installed 2-gang junction box by @Boycie ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 You must have heard the phrase "look out Mother i'm about to drop a Belper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuff264 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Anyone interested UoN have a nice map of place names http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/county/Derbyshire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Uttoxeter is in the Domesday book as Wotocheshede which is Anglo Saxon for "Wot's homestead on the Heath". I was about 20 before I realised the version my uncle told me was a wind up, for years I thought it was named after "Utto the ox eater" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 I thought Uttoxeter came from the old french Normandy dialect “mangeurs de frites” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kevin Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Long Eaton is allegedly from the Roman for surrounded by water .I suppose with the Trent ,Erewash and Derwent all converging it could be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Some similar sounding names mean very different things... Allestree - alles as in all - all trees, nothing but trees, trees everywhere, whereas..... Allenton - ton, district, one hundred acres, and Allen meaning small man (as in Woody Allen) = one hundred acres populated by small men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Boycie said: I thought Uttoxeter came from the old french Normandy dialect “mangeurs de frites” @RamNut 's description of Belper seems very apt....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 On 28/07/2019 at 01:18, uttoxram75 said: Spelling mistake mate, should of been Derby, village of beer...... I’m not letting that one be snatched away from Burton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 14 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: I’m not letting that one be snatched away from Burton. Coors you’re not mate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 8 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: I’m not letting that one be snatched away from Burton. Thought your tastes tended more towards Hereford and the West Cundry mate.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turk Thrust Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 On 27 July 2019 at 16:19, Pastinaak said: At me mum's this morning and she had the kind of book out that you'd expect a 70 odd year old woman to have out on a Saturday afternoon. The AA guide to place name origins 1984. Quite interesting actually... Derby, the Village of Deer. Nottingham, home of the Snot people. Mansfield, just a big tit. It seems a lifetime ago now but I was a librarian in the Local History Library in the Wardwick in the 60s and I wrote a booklet giving the derivations of local place names. Interestingly although Derby does indeed stem from the town of the deer, it doesn't mean the animal now known as deer. Deer then, like the modern German "tier" meant wild beast such as boars, deer, wolves etc. As the beasts have disappeared leaving only the animals with antlers the word has come to mean them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Etymology intrigues me, especially with UK place names with the multitude of different languages that have been combined in to modern day English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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