I used to be Rector of a hamlet called Spital in the Street. Sounds revolting but it was originally a Hospital on the Street. We're talking place of hospitality for travellers going along Ermine Street to the Shrine of St Hugh at Lincoln.
29 July 2025
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I used to be Rector of a hamlet called Spital in the Street. Sounds revolting but it was originally a Hospital on the Street. We're talking place of hospitality for travellers going along Ermine Street to the Shrine of St Hugh at Lincoln.
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They make Suffolk village names - usually old and explaining the countryside they are set in - sound really boring!
ReplyDeleteRickinghall Inferior and Rickinghall Superior both sounded pretty good on your list today!
ReplyDeleteJust woken up. Here in Norfolk we have Great Snoring. Plus Pudding Norton and Dumpling Green. And four separate hamlets called Little London!
ReplyDeleteWe've Little London as well but I don't think we aspire to four of them! Great Snoring sounds good. Gloucestershire has Upper and Lower Slaughter which sound horrendous.
DeleteHere in the NE we have Spital Tongues in Newcastle, and such places as Once Brewed and Twice Brewed on the road to Hexham, and our own New York.....
ReplyDeleteCraziness seems to flourish all over the place!
DeleteGreat names!
ReplyDeleteAnd, as you see, there are examples all over the country.
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