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Will enliven a journey through even the dullest parts of the country. --Lonely Planet, May 2011
Taggart has researched hidden meanings to reveal a patchwork of tall tales and legends that reveal the history of England's often oddly named towns and villages...If you want to know your wick from your ham and your ton from your bury, this quirky little hardback is worth picking up.
--Manchester Evening News, 16 April 2011
'Will enliven a journey through even the dullest parts of the country.' --Lonely Planet, May 2011
`Caroline Taggart...has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily-written factual books.' --Yorkshire Post, 2 May 2011
Taggart has researched hidden meanings to reveal a patchwork of tall tales and legends that reveal the history of England's often oddly named towns and villages...If you want to know your wick from your ham and your ton from your bury, this quirky little hardback is worth picking up.
--Manchester Evening News, 16 April 2011
'Will enliven a journey through even the dullest parts of the country.' --Lonely Planet, May 2011
`Caroline Taggart...has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily-written factual books.' --Yorkshire Post, 2 May 2011
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An entertaining and informative guide to the stories behind England's towns and villages
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Don't buy this if you're looking for a comprehensive guide to the etymology of English placenames, but it's a brightly written introduction to the subject. Taggart takes a pretty arbitrary selection from different parts of the country and sketches out some of the more common occurences and gives a little history here, an amusing anecdote there. As a resident of the city of the followers of a dark-age cheiftan called 'Snot', I'd recommend this for a casually interested reader or beginner.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Take a journey into England's past in this county-by-county guide to the meanings behind the names of our towns and villages. Caroline shows how deciphering place names reveals how generations of our ancestors lived, worked, travelled and worshipped, from Viking invaders and Norman conquerors right up to the Industrial Revolution; and why so many place names have tall tales and ancient legends attached to them. Whether it is Indian Queens (was it really visited by Pocahontas?), Sixpenny Handley (not named after its perceived value), Gatwick which means `farm where goats are kept ("not any more, it's not," comments Caroline), Good Easter or Westward Ho! (the only place name in Britain that ends in an exclamation mark), Caroline uncovers many interesting and informative meanings.
Format:Hardcover
Informative and interesting. Quite a history lesson in the origins of the place names! Great fun looking up places of special interest or just looking at random.
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