"New Town"

[Asa Post]

It has always struck me that it is particularly unwise to name a place "new", given that time passes and one day the said new thing will be old.

On a similar theme

 

[Fnaar]

On a similar theme

but then again...

 

[Asa Post]

but then again...

Trust Fnaar to find a permanent erection

 

[Fnaar]

Trust Fnaar to find a permanent erection

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Droop...y+Dr,+Alton,+Madison,+Illinois+62018&t=m&z=19

 

[subaqua]

It's a sobering thought, how bad must life in Liverpool have been for a move to Skelmersdale to seem like a good idea?

same could be said of Harlow too. obviously not Liverpool but London in that case.

 

[RedRider]

Out of consideration for future generations places should be called things like Relativelynew York.

On a slight tangent, when's the last time anyone drove their oxen across a shallow bit of the river in Oxford?

 

[Fnaar]

On a slight tangent, when's the last time anyone drove their oxen across a shallow bit of the river in Oxford?

Quite. Or attended to their Wookey Hole

 

[RedRider]

Quite. Or attended to their Wookey Hole

I think it was Han Solo but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

 

[trustysteed]

I think it was Han Solo but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

in the Chewbacca Magna quadrant

 

[subaqua]

Quite. Or attended to their Wookey Hole

we camped in wells at last bankholiday, to keep the surprise from the kids we called wookey Chewbaccas bum .


One possible origin for the name Wookey is from the Old English wocig (an animal trap). although it is also a possible alteration from a Celtic word ogo (cave) referring to Wookey Hole Caves.


which ties in with what the guide told me there maybe they got it from wikipedia too ?? who knows