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- Littleborough
How did they get these through planning !
It's where Saint David was speaking and the ground miraculously rose up beneath him, so the people at the back could hear better.There really is a village called Llandewi Brefi, in Ceredigion, Wales. I also once mounted Lord Hereford's Knob, not very far from errr, Hereford.
As the aforementioned Egypt, not just near Bradford, also one of the same name north of Slough.Gibraltar isn't just a tax haven off the south of Spain, it's also nine separate places in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loves_Corner,_IllinoisTickle Cock Bridge is in Castleford
There's also a Grape Lane in Whitby, which allegedly has similar origins
On a similar, yet divergent line, we have a young lady whose surname is abbreviated by some staff to 'Mab' (or 'Mabs')
She was pleased when I told her that Mab was the Queen of the Fairies (Midsummer Nights Dream?), & jokingly liked the princess/royalty connotations
She was, however, very much less pleased, when I also told her that 'Mab' was a derogatory name for a prostitute, in Victorian times
(There's a MabGate, in Leeds)
The obvious answer is that most of them were named well before planning came in. And many of them are only suggestive because of an increasing US influence on our language.How did they get these through planning !
And many of them are only suggestive because of an increasing US influence on our language.
But there are some americanisms which have very different meanings: