Comments on: Meaning of Place Names: Why do we call places by certain names?

By: Declan Chalmers

Declan Chalmers — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:02:39 +0000

What about “Denhead” many of which there are in scotland, what does it mean

By: Joanne Evans

Joanne Evans — Mon, 20 May 2019 07:40:37 +0000

My Dad always told me people in the prison there and in the work house had ‘Strange Ways’ hence the name!

By: william obrien

william obrien — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:06:32 +0000

could anybody enlighten me to the origins of a district known as strangeways manchester.i believe land was owned by the strange family hence the name.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:42:50 +0000

Who probably got his name from these definitions

By: Cat Morgan

Cat Morgan — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:37:25 +0000

Extraordinarily interesting read! Highly informative! Thank You

By: Dennis Noson

Dennis Noson — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:31:33 +0000

To add yet one more: -den … which Penelope Keith says (in Season 2 of “Hidden Villages” comes from the sense of an open place in a wood, and not the first sense of the word as a lair.
(Don’t you love it when someone identifies a suffix with the introductory tag, “to add one more”?)

By: Dr. Cajetan Coelho

Dr. Cajetan Coelho — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:19:03 +0000

Useful information. Enjoyed reading. Thanks.

By: Michael Wood

Michael Wood — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 09:39:47 +0000

-ing or -ings come from ingas, the people of, you write.
Is this also true for -inge, as in Hawkinge or Lyminge?
Is this the same in French names with -ange, like Hagondange?
For German ones with -ingen, like Tübingen?
The French and German correspond at least, as in Luxembourg Bofferdange is also Bofferdingen.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:59:24 +0000

no – ville?

By: Slice

Slice — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 01:37:22 +0000

The suffix “-wich” is a place where salt was made and is found in town names where there are tidal flats where sea salt was harvested.