SOME ENGLISH VILLAGES.

Shannon News, 13 May 1924, Page 1

SOME ENGLISH VILLAGES.

SWINE AND MUDPORD. Mucking, a village in Essex which lias been injured by its name, has many rivals in strange nomenclature among English villages, hamlets, and parishes After "a considerable study of the. subject. I am inclined to give the prize for the village with the most fantastic name to Huish in'Somerset, vwrites Paul BeAVster in the London "Daily Mail." Kyme Intrinsica and Toller Porcorum .in Dorset, run it close, I must admit, while Stogumber, in Somerset, and Over Wallop and Nether Wallop in Hampshiie, deserve good cosolation prizes.

Norfolk gives us . Strumpshaw, Toft Monks. Trunch, Leziate. Great Snoring, Seething, Guist, Stratton, Strawleas. Quarles, Stow Bardolph, Spurle, and —the very name for. a village is a novel —Little Hautbois.

Against these "Devon can display Zeal Monachorum, Inwardleigh, Sheep wash, Holcombe Rogus, Pancrasweek. TJplowman, Sticklepath, Woolfardisworthy, Fen Ottery, Countess Wear, and Eggbuckland. Who could choose between the two? As for an unpleasant name Mucking is not alone.

Swine, in Yorkshire, Sewers End, in Essex, Muckton, in Lincolnshire, and Mudford, in Devon, are not very beautiful.

'More strangev than ugly are Frogpool, in Cornwall, and Owl pen, in Gloucestershire. Foulmire, in Cam* bridgeshire, is a nasty name, but the inhabitnats probably use the other version, Fowlmere

Among the laughable names. I think that Barton-in-the-Beans, in Leicester, stands out very prominently. - Baldon Toot, in Oxfordshire, and Kingston Bagpuse, in Berkshire, are jokes, while X T pton Snodsbury. in Worcestershire, would be a good name for a village in a humorous story. Among the grotesque and fantastic and queer and amusing names of England,- however, are names which ■run like music—Ambrosden and StoKo Charity, Stretton Grandison and White Ladies Astoiv, Ampney Crucis, and Martyr Worthy.