QUEER NAMES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 January 1925, Page 6

QUEER NAMES

FOR. ENGLISH .VILLAGES. Mucking, a village in Essex, which has been injured by its name, has many rivals in strange nomenclature among Eglisli villages, hamlets and parishes, states Paul Bewslier, in the Daily Mail. After considerable study of the subject. I am inclined to give the prize for the village with the most fantastic name to. Huish Champ-flow-er, in Somerset. Ryme Intrinsica and Toller Porcorum, in Dorset, run it close, I. must admit, while Stogumber, in Wallop, in .Hampshire, deserve good consolation prizes. Norfolk gives' ns Strumpshaw, Toll Monks. Trunch, Leziate, Great Snoring, Seething, Guist, Stratton, Strawless, Quarles, Stow, Bardolnh, Sporlc, and the very name for a village in a novel. —Little Hautbois. Against these Devon can display Zeal Moimchornm Imvardleigh, Sheepwash, Uplowman, Sticklepath, Woolfard is worthy, Fen Ottory, Countess Wear and Eggbuckland. Who could choose between the two?

As for an unpleasant name Mucking is not n,lone. Swine/, in Yorkshire, Sowers . End, in Essex, Muekton, in Lincolnshire, anil Mudforil, in Devon, are not very beautiful. More strange Ilian ugly arc Frogpool, in Cornwall, anil Owlpen, jn Gloucestershire. Foulmire, in Cambridgeshire, is a nasty name, hut the inhabitants probably use the other version Fowl mere.

Among the laughable names I think that Barton-in-the-Beans, jn Leicester, stands out very prominently, Baltlon Toot, in Oxfordshire, anil Kingston Bagpuze, in Berkshire, are jokes, while Upton Snodsbuvy, in Worcestershire. would he a good name for a village jn humorous story. Among the grotesque and fantastic and queer and amusing names of England, however, are names which run like music—Ambrosden and Stoke Charity, Stretton Grandison. and White Ladies Aston, Ampney Crucis, and Martyr Worthy.