MORE ENGLISH PLACE NAMES and WORDS

MORE ENGLISH PLACE NAMES and WORDS

It seems like every street, neighborhood or town has a long Wiki entry because England is all about its history in every part of its fabric.

So here are a few places I’ve been:

STOKE NEWINGTON–. New town by the wood (Saxon for woods)

TOTTENHAM HALE from a thousand plus year old name of Tota’s hamlet, Tottenham’s Hale (place of  hauling pulling ( goods ) off boats on the river Lea, 15 miles or so north of. London

WALTHAMSTOW–place of welcome/ holy place

STANSTED. MOUNTFICHET–Stony place owned in medieval times by Norman baron Mountfichet

HACKNEY–island of dry land amidst a marsh where the Viking Hakon claimed land

Here are a few wild words I’ve just encountered wandering Wikiworld

And in the process of looking up all these wild place names I came upon a whole new batch of words I’d never heard of. So I looked em up and am sharing some Medieval verbiage with you:
SOCAGE– a tenure of land pay rent yearly
serjeanty tenure as soldier
DEMESNE (pronounced dee main ) from Old French–land of manor
SUENTOEFFLED– part of the manor that’s been sublet.
SUBINFEUDATION–process of subletting a part of the manor
GLEBE–strip of land owned or used by the by the parish church in the Middle Ages
CARUCATE– noun–a  unit of land. equal to the amount  of land tillable by a team of eight eight in a season =8 oxgangs or 4 virgates
VILLEIN –peasant tenant farmer villain serf

DOOMSDAY. BOOK properly Domesday Book 1086 when William the Conqueror counted all the men and lands in his realm to assure taxation– not really doom or disaster but taxes to some certainly are a doom….