American Reacts The origin of every English city's name

[@LastEuropaKiss]

Liverpool comes from " lifer/læfer" meaning reed/rush. Idk how he didn't manage to find this, it's quite easy to find. He's also incorrect to say there were no castles in England before the Normans because there were a few, for example Ewyas Harold Castle built in 1048, on the site of a former Saxon Burg, which could also be counted as a "a castle" as it was a fortified settlement. Where I live in Scotland there are Gaelic names, Anglo-Saxon names and Viking names all around, so much like England, it shows who was invading where, and who controlled parts at times.

[@austinbeardshaw9344]

The New Forest in Hampshire is called the New Forest because it's only 945 years old

[@beeurd]

Some foreign chap called William came over and designated it his new forest for hunting. He was a bit of a conqueror, I hear.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@beeurd Before he became a conqueror he was a bastard... It's only my 71st birthday on Saturday (3rd August '24) so am not quite old enough to know how well that word described him / his nature etc!! I only know that my late Mum prayed, "Lord preserve us from yet another 'King Billy' !!" ... 🤭😮🤔

[@SonOfBaraki359]

i hate those modern forests !

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@SonOfBaraki359 But, but, but, but... Ponies.. ?! 🐴🐴🐴♥️🤭

[@barbaramorris2196]

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[@JJ-of1ir]

Yes, 'shire' is used when its a County. This was such an interesting video. Knew some of it, but learnt a lot. So thanks. Love from the UK

[@stephenbes8575]

GOOD VIDEO !! Well done, you really are getting better at understanding us, the British. Virtually all place names, even in villages all over the country the names are related to either Forts, Rivers, Landmarks, Local Tribes or local Lords, Animals dominant in that area, Bridges, Battles fought in that area. Etc etc etc. All the best from the UK 🇬🇧

[@Spiklething]

Can confirm Chichester had Romans. Much of the Roman wall still exists today. Also, the Romans built an (almost) straight road from Chichester to London, ending at London Bridge. 56 miles in total. Much of the road still exists today and is called Stane Street And Chichester (Chi for short - rhymes with sky) is where I was born

[@samsativa245]

Americans didn't steal them, it was us who named them, just like how in Australia there are loads of British place names too. We aren't very original lol

[@micade2518]

An appalling lack of imagination! ;o)))

[@samsativa245]

@@micade2518 Then again, I suppose Britain can boast some of history's best Storytellers, Songwriters and Poets, so I guess all of our creativity ends up there... As I don't think many of the types of men who decided what to name places were of the artistic character types lol

[@nightowlnzab]

Same in NZ, too - and if in doubt you just shove a "New" on the front of the name. 😅

[@barryevans791]

I would see it as a marker of pride. If you are going to live in a new country, why would you not name the place after where you came from? The alternative would be to name it after yourself, which would seem a little aloof.

[@micade2518]

@@barryevans791 The alternative would be to respect it as not "belonging" to you, the invader!

[@jasonc5413]

Most place names are named after local geography. I live in a village in Wales called Abersychan, which roughly translates to mouth of the dry brooke. The tributary running though the village often drys up in the summer. My friend was in the USA recently, and visited a town called Big Rock. Just outside town there was a big rock. Etc.

[@helenwood8482]

The Vikings were from Scandinavia, the Saxons from Germany, so mixing up the two is like confusing Canadians with Mexicans. The Vikings and Saxons fought each other for centuries.

[@barryevans791]

It was angles, saxons, Frisians and jutes, that we call anglo saxon, they came from a similar geographic area around what is now Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, so a mix of people. It is worth mentioning that they entered the country following the withdrawal of Rome and there were native Britons still here as well. It would be wrong to call them German because what we call Germany today didn't exist, in fact, German people today are also from a mix of different tribes. The Vikings came from Sandinavia, which is basically Sweden and Finland today. Countries were generally formed through war or through diplomatic marriages between leaders, which is where we get Monarchies from.

[@monican5047]

@@barryevans791 You are fogetting about Norway,Norway gave birth to Rollo the walker,Leif Erikson, Harold Hairfare and many other prominent vikings.The name viking means men from Viken,a place south in Norway.

[@barryevans791]

@@monican5047 My comment was exclusively in relation to anglo saxons.

[@stevedavy2878]

The USA didnt steal any town or city names. The early colonists were from all over the UK, they named small settlements after their home town in the UK, which grew into cities. Same happened in Australia.

[@08shunter]

The town of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire was Heaven Homested way back in time.

[@Brookspirit]

People's surnames are usually just descriptive, usually tied to trades or locations.

[@barryevans791]

I can't remember the year, but because everyone had the same surnames they allowed rich people to pay to start their own, so this is not always true. The ones that retained their surnames do match what you have described though, but there are others that match older patterns like my own. Evans basically means "son of john" as in John the baptist and dates back to when Pagan Wales became Christianised, prior to this they either has no surnames or used tribe names. This is why there are so many Evans' in Wales, it doesn't mean they are all related.

[@coling3957]

posh ppl got named for places and poor ppl for their trade..

[@PiousMoltar]

"Lincoln's cathedral was once the tallest building in the world" Yes, but not at its current height. It used to have a spire. Well, I think maybe three spires, but only the main one was the tallest.

[@paulthomas8262]

-shire/scir is not used for villages and town but what became counties.

[@jasonc5413]

Yes, you are wrong. Vikings are not the same as Anglo-Saxons.

[@edwinchapple7224]

They came from the same area to fight and plunder and finally settle. Same people, 200 years later, with a bit of an attitude.

[@animalchin5082]

​@@edwinchapple7224 really not the "same" area, when the Anglo-Saxons migrated from the areas of Frisia, the low countries, Northern Germany &southern Denmark and the vikings came from noticibly further north

[@edwinchapple7224]

@@animalchin5082 Jutland (ie jutes) and Anglyn (Angles) where wholly in the land that became Denmark. They were genetically and culturally related to the Folk that became Danes. The Danes made up the majority of the Vikings that came to England.

[@JohnResalb]

Yep, all those cities once started as small hamlets.

[@declanrussell2232]

I went to school in a town just outside London called Rickmansworth. In Norman times it meant Rich man’s land. Makes sense when you break it down.

[@JoBaker-s8q]

I'm in Rickmansworth too :) I heard it came from an anglo saxon bloke called Rykmer - Rykmer's land/house

[@sarahgreen653]

Shires are not towns but counties. Example: My hometown of Nottingham (Snottingham) is in the county of Nottinghamshire

[@alanelesstravelled8218]

Kingston upon Hull was originally called Wyke on Hull and was founded by monks from the local abbey in the late 12th century. Wyke is probably derived from the Scandinavian word Vik meaning inlet or the Saxon Wic meaning dwelling or refuge. The reason Ed 1 bought the town from the monks was because he saw it as an excellent base to fight the pesky Scots in the north and defence against foreign invaders. The River Hull is definitely muddy and deep when the tide is in.

[@TenCapQuesada]

Shires are counties. This video is about cities.

[@alexfletcher5192]

The origin of Nottingham will immediately ping a memory in those Brits of a certain age, about a commercial involving a man with a heavy cold asking for train passage to that very destination. And I wonder if I'm being excessively stupid in bringing that up and the writers of said advertisement knew this all the time...

[@barryevans791]

Littleborough in Lancashire is part of Greater Manchester. The shires are basically counties that divide the responsibility for councils and voting areas, pretty much like states, they weren't mentioned in the video because they are focussing on place names, there would be a lot of places in a single shire.

[@shadybacon3451]

For the origins of Liverpool, this is what I found very easily so it disappoints me that he claimed he couldn't find anything. There are a few theories to the origin. The name comes from the Old English lifer, meaning thick or muddy water, and pōl, meaning a pool or creek, and is first recorded around 1190 as Liuerpul. According to the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, "The original reference was to a pool or tidal creek now filled up into which two streams drained". One theory is that the water flowing through the Pool contained lots of clay or peat, giving it a red-brown tint - the colour liver. Another is that people called the water ‘livered’ because it contained many weeds, including one known as liverwort. Some people say a similar seaweed called Laver was eaten by cormorants, the birds which most resemble the city’s mythical liver birds. But this belief overlooks the fact Liverpool’s liver birds have changed over time - with the original symbol more like a St John’s Eagle with a different plant in its beak. Yet another theory is that the city’s name derives from the Welsh term Lyfrpwl, meaning ‘the pool of confluence’. If you look at every state, there is Alaska, which doesn't have a place name, be it a village, town, city, etc, originating from the UK. There may well be others, though.

[@Varksterable]

You offer multiple vapourous theories, sure. But have you "found" anything?

[@shadybacon3451]

@Varksterable there is no definitive theory, but the theory that Liver originated from Lifer meaning thick and muddy seems to be the preferred theory. However, he claimed he couldn't find a single theory as to what the origins of the Liver part of the name was, aside from thinking maybe it was shaped like a Liver, I was merely saying there are other theories that can be found easily. Maybe you should go find something rather than getting butt hurt that someone made a comment with a few theories.

[@Varksterable]

@shadybacon3451 So simply posting a valid comment is "getting butt hurt" in your world view? Good luck. The internet gets way more aggressive than this.

[@shadybacon3451]

​@Varksterable oh I know that the Internet can get a lot more aggressive, your lucky I was being polite over your fucking pointless comment. There are a fair amount of theories that he mentions of other cities that could be considered vapourous, so me posting several theories as to where the name Liverpool originated, is perfectly valid in the context of this video.

[@PiousMoltar]

As an East Anglian, I am disgusted that "Brighthelmstone" was shortened to "Brighton" and not "Brimst'n". And I know a guy from Bristol whose surname is literally Bristowe, the old name for the city. I had never assumed there was a connection before.

[@seanoconnor8843]

Hey! You're a Rochdale lad Littleborough, Rochdale, Lancashire The maternity hospital in Rochdale was in Littleborough until fairly recently

[@0x2A_]

Quite surprised about the cathedral in Lincoln being the tallest structure in the world. First thought I had was the pyramids, but it was indeed slightly taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza :)

[@martynnotman3467]

It used to have a massive spire so was taller than it is now

[@rogertonks8368]

You never stole anything, you are family...

[@cireenasimcox1081]

Am glad you did this one - because it might help to explain something else: why English-speakers outside of the US stubbornly stick to their original spelling and pronunciation. ('Cos no, we don't do it just to annoy people from the US.😆). We turned our noses up at Noah Webster 'simplified' spelling because the spelling of a word is intrinsic to our understanding of the English language. It tells us where a word comes from, how it makes connections to other words, gives clues to how old the word is, and even how it's pronounced. ( think of 'color', 'humor' as opposed to 'colour' and 'humour". Without the 'u' the final 'r' -sound is pronounced: 'culle'. But we know from the 'u' that this is a French word, so it's pronounced 'cull because the final consonant is not used in French. In the same vein, while our place-names might seem ridiculously difficult, they do have meaning. And while every person in the UK may not be a linguist or an historian, most know what the name of their particular town, village or city means. It's all part of our rather long history.

[@garethm3242]

Hi from Derry (the original one, in the north of Ireland)! Lots of New England place names are also named after places in the island of Ireland too, as I'm sure you already know. Due to the influx of us folks, even before The Great Famine here. I like that there's also a "Londonderry" in NH, just down the road from there. I often wonder if the locals there are aware of the historical significance. [Edit: I also see that the official website of Derry, NH has the most historically inaccurate and blinkered view of its OG namesake ever, and The Siege of Derry, haha]

[@doommonger7784]

No you did not steal these place names after all you were a British colony for two hundred years, towns being given mainly English names as a reminder of the homeland.

[@alexritchie4586]

Is it not generally agreed that London is named after the legendary King Lud? That's why one of the old city gates is named Ludgate.

[@daveb6470]

I knew I liked you for a reason... being a fellow Lanchashire Lad and from Littlebough too...

[@sallytsang9444]

I do enjoy RobWords videos they are so informative and intriguing. British place names are fascinating and often a mystery when it comes to both derivation and pronunciation even for Brits.

[@johnritter6864]

He does some interesting videos. The Map Men also do similar videos about place names, etc. They inject a lot of humour into their videos though

[@beeurd]

I think he's already reacted to that one - definitely has reacted to lots of Jay Foreman and Map Men videos.

[@Janie_Morrison]

I love listening to that video it was very good

[@leehallam9365]

Littlebourgh's name is old English, meaning small fortified settlement. It is on the meeting point of two routes over the Pennines and in the dangerous border lands between English Mercia and the Danelaw.

[@seanoconnor8843]

It's not that dangerous! 😊

[@hardywatkins7737]

The area of South Devon where i grew up is called 'the South Hams'. So 'ham' meaning a homestead came to mean a village or hamlet (like just a group of houses around a farm perhaps ... a tiny village). The village i grew up in 'Dartington' means something like 'farmstead on the river Dart'. The name 'Dart' may have a Britonic/celtic origin meaning 'river with oak trees'. Where i live now just across the border of Devon into Cornwall, there is a river Tamar about which google says this: "The name is said to mean "great water". The Tamar is one of several British rivers whose ancient name is assumed by some to be derived from a prehistoric river word apparently meaning "dark flowing" and which it shares with the River Thames". The Cornish town i live in 'Launceston' has echos of Welsh place names begining with 'Llan' which means a church enclosure or church parish. Launceston derives from the name Lanstevan, or more Welsh ... Llanstephan, meaning the church enclosure or parish of st. Stephen. Indeed not too far away to the north, across the Bristol channel, on the south coast of Wales is a little coastal town named 'Llanstephan'. I'm still curious about the 'ton' on the end of Llaunceston though ... place names ending in 'ton' get it from the old English 'tun' (like the previously mentioned Dartington) which means a farmstead or settlement.

[@danhumble9199]

Great reaction video Connor. I hadn’t heard you tell of your connection to Lancashire before. Don’t let Yorkshire folk know about that! Disappointed you didn’t mention how green the grass was in any of the pictures😂 Love from Dan near Durham.

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

The word "Shire" refers to counties not cities, which is why the city of York is located within the county of York-SHIRE (pronounced 'York-Shuh', not like 'The Shire' in Lord of The Rings) - "the Shire containing the city of York". As such, the word wouldn't be covered here as it was only found in the names of the areas surrounding the towns, not in the name of the towns themselves. The "Liver" in "Liverpool" comes from the Old English word "lifer", meaning "thick or muddy water", and the "Pool" simply meant a "pool or creek". The name derived from the fact that the River Mersey (which runs alongside it) is relatively shallow and boggy. And from this we get the name of the county - Merseyside - which was only created in the 1970s. Historically though it was in Lancashire before that

[@joshua.910]

Ive just subbed to his channel, cant wait to check out more of his content

[@keithcolley5559]

Lichfield: I think, the explanation Rob has given may possibly have an alternative derivation. I've read that it came from the O.E., 'Lytch', meaning dead (hence, the Lytchgate outside a church - the gate where the dead waited for the priest to lead the funeral party into the church), so Lichfield is the field of the dead.

[@B-A-L]

There's a village in Lincolnshire near RAF Coningsby called New York which is so small that you could fit the entire population inside an average apartment block in NYC.

[@patk3522]

Some ppl from Derby still call Nottingham, Snottingham among other things lol

[@roswilkinson4335]

Some people in Nottingham call Derby Direby how funny.

[@angelavara-u6l]

my ex and i used to go walking at night to see if we could capture any voices on the recorder. 1 night we went to a local area where there were a few cliffs. we got back and listened to it and a voice came through saying "we will get you angles" in a local accent. really interesting.

[@Badgersj]

Very impressed by your correct pronunciation of Gloucester and Leicester.

[@billyhills9933]

One of the problems with naming places is that most people didn't travel far from their home area. Thus many areas would have a river just called 'The River' and the people in each location would know exactly what you were talking about. Then you have chroniclers and map-makers come along and have difficulties with all these similar names everywhere. They have to differentiate between The River in one area and The River in another area and somehow have to work out which river anyone they're speaking to is referencing.

[@House0fHoot]

My English town of *Wallsend* is at the easternmost point of Hadrian’s Wall, so it’s self explanatory 🤓

[@thisismossop]

My mum lives in Bradford on Avon (Not the big City up north). It got it's name from the Ford there. Broad ford del afon = Broad ford on the river. Again the river is now call The Avon River, from the word Afon, meaning river. So another River River.

[@bencollins4168]

We have a town near where my parents live that was made up of land that belonged to a man called Gerrard and he was known for not being happy and is now called Gerrards Cross

[@JohnResalb]

Hi Jibby. And some of the other names you didn't mention, are in other States, for example Lancaster (is that Pennslyvania)?

[@glenostick3979]

The Anglo Saxons came from an area in northen Germany (Saxony), The Vikings came from Scandinavia which refers to Denmark, Norway, and Swedenmost

[@leenorman853]

Dallas is a village in Scotland.

[@Cayles764]

There are no English cities that use a "shire" suffix but many counties do.

[@laurainelindley9190]

I was born and still live in Sheffield,👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@101steel4]

America didn't steal them. They were named by the British people living there.

[@alanelesstravelled8218]

The Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from northern Europe, the Vikings are Scandinavians (Norway, Sweden and Denmark)

[@jlfrank68]

My father born and raised in Rhode Island. When he moved to England in the 1960’s most of the most of the towns/cities that had English place names were pronounced the same as the same place in England. He was horrified when he went back to the RI in the late 1980’s that places like Warwick were now pronounced War-Wick

[@trebr001]

One instance of a place names being borrowed BY the U.K. is the area of Maryland in the east end of London.

[@joyvecalm824]

I feel like you were in my head when you were talking about the news! 😂

[@troggmeister]

I came from Retford (UK) . Originally it was called Redforde as where you could cross was made of clay and when cattle etc crossed the ford it turned the water red .

[@dgse83]

'shire' comes from the word 'sćir' or 'scere' and is also the origin of the word 'sheriff' - so it was an area under one's jurisdiction.

[@judithhope8970]

I think the Normans introduced shires as an area where certain people, a Scir governed. They became shires in the 12th century. I do enjoy Rob Words, and your reaction.

[@UncleNewy1]

My home town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, just outside Leeds, is named so because of the Latin for broken bridge "Pontus Fractus". No-one from the town is quite sure where the bridge was, however, because there is no river. Our neighbouring town Castleford does have a river, river Aire. Which makes sense for the 'ford' part of it's name which means "crossing", however, there is no castle.............Pontefract has that. 🤣🤣

[@janolaful]

I live in salford in-between manchester and bolton all are in usa we even have new york New York is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, o and never forget Plymouth.

[@andybaker2456]

We never got rid of the æ over here, although it's more commonly written as just "ae", depending on whether you have easy access to it on your keyboard. It's you Americans that replaced it with an e!

[@mindless-pedant]

Anything with the suffix 'shire' is a county, not a city or town. 'ae' still exists: paediatrician, orthopaedics, anaesthetic, haemoglobin, gynaecology and loads of others. Sadly because the internet is dominated by Americans, young Britons now adopt American spelling conventions. Also schools' IT departments either don't know how, or can't be bothered, to set their PCs to British spelling. I'm 65. Had I spelt 'anaesthetic' as 'anesthetic' when at school, I'd have got a warning and If I repeated the error I'd have got a severe rap across the knuckles.

[@kathrinroberts6640]

The settlers from UK to USA named the places they settled in from the places they came from.

[@lawrenceglaister4364]

You moaned about not having original names but it was when the English / British found the area and named it as such because they wanted a reminder of the place were they came from . To help you to recover see if any of your towns ( end of names ) do match , ie Ford is were a place you can cross a stream or river etc because it's shallower .

[@vickytaylor9155]

There is a town or city I believe called Oxford named after our city in the uk but in Mississippi.

[@johnritter6864]

The US is full of names from many places in the world, such as Moscow or Memphis (which was a capital in ancient Egypt)

[@rickybuhl3176]

Always found 'æ' to look better than the capital 'Æ' but writing a nice 'æ' isn't as easy as an 'Æ'. As a Dane living in Djursland, it's kinda cool to see the shared naming convention that has with Derbyshire. Most farmers will name various different fields, parts of their woods or even have numerous names for different sections of a single field. More simply though - even if you look at the names of places around you that aren't towns - every bridge or forest or quirk in the countryside that's named but has nobody living there - in 500 years, a town may have built up there. Some bar on the highway with a truck stop may one day have grown so big it becomes a city, that's effectively where much if this is, as such.

[@jacquelinepearson2288]

Anglo-Saxons are from the Germanic area (Saxony) and Vikings are from Scandinavia. 'Shire' comes at the end of county names, so is not included in this list as he is talking about city names.

[@niallrussell7184]

of course a lot of them are named after the historically important town/city in that country, so +shire.

[@JohnDuffy-bq8wg]

God help explaining Welsh names history

[@kjdempsey]

People from modern day Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland are the vikings. The Anglo Saxons are the English. It’s funny because most Russians when talking about English people still call us Anglo Saxons today

[@Teknikah]

The Anglo-Saxons were also from outside of The British Isles. They weren't native to the country. Here's some info from Google: "449AD, for the first arrival of the Anglo-Saxons and he said they came from three tribes: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who themselves came from different parts of Germany and Denmark"

[@kjdempsey]

@@Teknikah yes the Angles, the Saxons and the jutes migrated to Britain from Germany and Denmark. The name England means land of the Angles

[@HankD13]

Yep, you guys did "borrow" many place names from us - not surprising. As for "shire" - derives from the Old English sćir, denoting an 'official charge' a 'district under a governor', and a 'care'. In the UK, shire became synonymous with county 😁

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Some place names are muddling to pronounce from the spelling . Even Brits have difficulty with HAVERHILL ,pronounced Hay-vrill . And what about the locals of St. Osyth in Essex calling their town `Toosey`.

[@uknivek53]

Shire is used for county names not in city/town names. So a large area

[@johnritter6864]

Where I live we still pronounce town as toon, lol.

[@gazbradster]

Proud Mancunian 😊

[@charlesfrancis6894]

The "Shire" part i think he missed which shows there is more to this story .

[@paulthomas8262]

Anglo Saxons are not viking. Normans on the other hand are viking on horseback with castles. At least initially. Normandy was basically founded by Viking that stayed.

[@joshuabruce9599]

I am from Ipswich, born and raised. I'm curious. What makes you like the name so much? I personally don't see the appeal. Though, then again, very few places feel special when you've spent most of your life living there. All the name means is effectively 'settlement at the mouth of the river Gipping'. You can see the meaning a bit better when you look at the medieval name for the town: 'Gipeswyck'

[@kellypierce81]

The Welsh name for liverpool is Lerpwl. There are theories that liverpool is derived from this...

[@annaharvey8729]

Anglo-Saxons ( Angles and a separate Saxon tribe) are two Germanic tribes that were one of many invading tribes many centuries ago. They were definitely not Viking.

[@susangardner6059]

I live in Scarborough and i belive there are another 12 Scarboroughs in the world all belived to be named after the Scarborough in north Yorkshire England

[@BramVanhooydonck]

For American cities: anything starting with 'new-' is probably for publicity. Any name that is just a copy though, i like to think it was to feel more like home in the New World but theres definitely some that were named by outsiders after what inhabitants answered to "where are you from?" And because they just settled they said they come from an existing place in the Old World.

[@gailsmith1808]

Shire is usually used for counties not cities such as Yorkshire by the way it's Yorkshire Day today 😅

[@masterofparsnips5327]

My surname is Duxbury .. There's a town in Massachusetts with the same name. I guess my ancestors settled there.

[@christopherflux6254]

I’m from Preston, yeah!

[@DarthBill-h6f]

another possible name for Truro would be Tre/ru (three roads)

[@LordRogerPovey]

Sometimes trees were used as meeting places for communities. 'Let's all meet at such and such Tree

[@markthomas2577]

Littleborough was historically in Lancashire but became part of Greater Manchester in the 1970s

[@vtbn53]

Well the only thing you got wrong was when you said that you thought the Vikings were Anglo-Saxon, but I think you picked up on the fact they were from Scandinavia as were the Norse.

[@dalegallacher7074]

It’s not stealing for gawd sake….

[@missharry5727]

I live in the otherwise rather unremarkable town of Basingstoke. Its name means the stockade of a tribe called the Basingas.

[@stephendukes6582]

The Vikings were completely different to the Anglo-Saxons who were different to the Romanised native English of which there were originally four tribes and of course the Celts who were themselves invaders.

[@charlesfrancis6894]

Shire as you say encompasses a county .

[@carolinekofahl8867]

Anglo-Saxons vs Vikings - there is an overlap where they came from (Jutland and Angel provided both 😊).

[@mathiasosiriswoodhal]

yeah i love theÆ names ive even called my two cats Æthelred and Ælfwynn both ango-saxon names think ones was queen of mercia and one king of wesex i think lol

[@MichaelLamming]

How about New York and Washington. Your President Washington was named after the town of Washington. Washington was British 🇬🇧.

[@TonySpike]

Map Men did a good episode on place names, but i think you might have watched it already?

[@martinsear5470]

I think you are a little confused mate. Shire is generally only used for counties not cities.😉 For example Leicester is the capital of Leicestershire.

[@charlesfrancis6894]

My dad was born in Preston Lancashire.