Saturday 13 April 2013

What's in a place name?


 

We have just been on our annual trip down Cambridgeshire way to three lots of friends who emigrated there from Manchester years ago. It's a three hour trip to our first port of call just below Cambridge but I know we are getting closer as the place names seem to become much posher. We pass Hemingford Abbots and Cherry Hinton. And every year I say "Oh it's such an age since we saw the Hintons - Cherry is so lovely." And of course I can't resist intending to pop in to see the Hemingford Abbots on the way back. Then we are brought back down to earth as we pass through Trumpington and have a good giggle and I request politely that we have no sound effects PLEASE. 


Back up north near 88 I've always wanted to have a good laugh in Giggleswick and then calm down in neighbouring Settle (Yorks). But David and I have always had a yen to live in Ramsbottom (Lancs), in the upper part of town of course.

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