It’s not just streets and roads in London that have unique names; many ofBritain’s villages have them as well. As this chapter shows, there are plentyof unique names in the whole of England, Scotland, Wales, and NorthernIreland. Of c...
Edinburgh Edinburgh is Scotland's capital, and one of the most beautiful cities in Britain.The heart of Edinburgh is the thousand-year-old castle, where the kings of Scotland lived for centuries. From Edinburgh castle you can see for miles, north over the beautiful old streets, an arm of ...
Gunnersbury previously had its own Church of England parish church – built in 1886, St James’s was located on Chiswick High Road until it was demolished in the late 1980s (another church, Gunnersbury Baptist Church stands in Wellesley Road and a Russian Orthodox Cathedral stands on Harvard Ro...
Here are 10 of the strangest names we've spotted along the roads of Trinidad and Tobago: 1. Pregnancy Lane/Horner Man Lane, Diego Martin These famous (or infamous?) streets in Diego Martin have a sordid history. It is alleged that Hornerman Lane, formerly Trumpet Lane, was so named beca...
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EdinburghEdinburgh is Scotland's capital, and one of the most beautiful cities in Britain. The heart of Edinburgh is the thousand-year-old castle, where the kings of Scotland lived for centuries.From Edinburgh castle you can see for miles, north over the beautiful old streets, an arm of ...
"Everyday words can be turned into a place name as circumstances require. The exploration routes of the world are full of such names asCape Catastrophe, Skull Creek, andMount Pleasant, plus hopeful names likeConcord, Fame, andNiceville. The same trend affects streets, parks, promenades, quay...
The article offers the author's view about the significance of the place names where the history of London, England is kept alive. The author said that the place names that survive in local usage help to make the metropolis such a fascinating place to live. He added that if one desires ...
forelandnoun(n.) A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England. noun(n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. noun(n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of wave...
3.Ugley, Essex– Although its name might suggest the opposite, the town of Ugley is filled with quaint, storybook-like cottages and cobblestone streets. The name dates back to around 1041, referring to a “woodland clearing of a man called Ugga.” Ugley is home to St. Peter’s Church ...