Scouseinmanc
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French Drove & Gedney Hill
Bovey Tracey
Banchory
Mary Tavy & Blackdown
Glasgow St Enoch
Waddeston Manor
Bovey Tracey
Banchory
Mary Tavy & Blackdown
Glasgow St Enoch
Waddeston Manor
Haltwhistle
You should love Oval then..
I like the abruptness of Temple.
But Temple sounds so authoritarian, as if you should prostrate yourself on the platform when you alight.You should love Oval then.
Then there is Clock House, in Beckenham, SE London............
Clock Face
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Abbey Road DLR station sees a fair few lost Beatlemaniacs on a pilgrimage, I wonder if Cyprus ends up with disappointed arriving travellers
(An aside - Mudchute was apparently chosen as a name instead of Millwall, for fear that visiting footie fans might end up on the wrong side of the Thames - no similar consideration seems to have applied to Abbey Road)
Since the discussion on the L&B, Ballybunion sounds like Paddy at the doctors with a painful foot
Swine on the now-closed line to Hornsea in Yorkshire. Naming a station after farmyard livestock has always amused me.
Was it twinned with Cowes?Swine on the now-closed line to Hornsea in Yorkshire. Naming a station after farmyard livestock has always amused me.
Swine, East Yorkshire, is possibly derived from the Old English swin = creek.
I used to live in a place called Skinners Bottom. I'm sure my father picked it due to sniggering value.I was being a bit cheeky when I ventured that the village of Swine was named after pigs. Place names in England are often rooted in an Old English word or phrase that may not correspond directly or even indirectly with today's English language.
It's a great shame that Ding Dong mine, a few miles to the west of Ting Tang, never got a rail connection! I know someone who lives in the settlement of the same name and he still gets pleasure from the reaction of strangers when he gives his address!And although a freight only line, may I mention Ting Tang on the Redruth and Chasewater railway
Only Betjeman could have thought of writing poetry about the London Underground, and did so with his effortlessly perfect cadence, alliteration and rhyming.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names, Swine (formerly Suuine) means " Place at the creek or channel"I was being a bit cheeky when I ventured that the village of Swine was named after pigs. Place names in England are often rooted in an Old English word or phrase that may not correspond directly or even indirectly with today's English language.
And so Barking has nothing to do with dogs, but refers to the settlement of the Berica family. On the other hand, Catford is named after cats; it's a ford that is frequented by wild cats.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names, Swine (formerly Suuine) means " Place at the creek or channel"
However, Swindon means "Hill where pigs are kept", and
Swinton (in England) = "Pig farm".