Place names - I love them.

[IreneH]

Beesby in the Marsh??? The area around the village was/is a bog? St Mary and St Peter with Stain, Mablethorp?? I hate to think - Mary and Peter up to no good? Someone know the orgins?

Irene

[Chasing Caseys]

Can you imagine living in a place named Bogrotten how uninspiring !

[lizziebeth]

Hello Irene, The name Beesby in the Marsh probably comes from old scandinavian and it was known as the village of "Bosi". It was in the domesday book as Besebi, and in 1845 Sir Charles Darwin purchased a 325 acre farm in Beesby as an investment, for around £12,500. It was mostly surrounded by saltmarsh. I like your suggestion about St Mary and St Peter, have found a picture of St Marys church, Mablethorpe, and i believe St Peters fell into the sea in medieval times,(the hand of god maybe? for misdemeanours!!?) Here is another one for you, i was born in Skeldyke!!!!(which is also in lincolnshire).

[IreneH]

They are wonderful names aren't they - interesting how they get mudered overtime.

[vicaby]

A guy I used to work with moved to Killamarsh, (NE Derbyshire/South of Sheffield). I remember he phoned some mail order company and when the stuff arrived it was addressed to Killer Marsh.
The only boggy bit we know of is at the southern end of the Rother Valley Country Park (used to be a slag heap before it got redeveloped) might have been pretty toxic in the mining days but now...

[Chasing Caseys]

Allbeg, Fattiehead, Boghead, Lady Sheets ...............more inspiring Banffshire place names !

[BeeE586]

Vicaby, hi.

Rother Valley Country Park was actually an enormous opencast mine, not a slagheap, and several million tons of coal were removed. As the name implies, it was the valley of the River Rother, which did sometimes flood, and much of the land was farmland although not of high quality. The lakes were allowed to fill when mining finished, the ancient Bedgreave Mill kept, and the amenities developed over time.

I'm not sure of the spelling, but the original name of Killamarsh was something like Cinewoldsmaresch - from Old English. The village was mentioned in Domesday as having four manors, there is part of a cross thought to be Saxon in the churchyard, and 13th century stained glass in the very ancient church. Please don't insult the place because of someone's careless mistake.

Eileen

[vicaby]

Sorry Eileen, is this your neck of the woods then? I'm an ex-pat Lancastrian with Northumbrian roots.

I didn't mean it to sound derogatory.

I was told it was formerly the site of the spoil heaps & I didn't know about the open cast (I believe there have been fairly recent proposals to start a new open cast site south of Wales/Kiveton, on the eastern side of the A618 only a mile or two away) They've done a really good job with the landscaping & I just can't imagine what the natural geography would have been like before the mining.

Any idea what the old English name meant? This looks like a typical example of a name that has been altered over time reflecting different pronunciations & spelling.

[vicaby]

Bottom o' th' moor and Side of the moor, Lancs

[peter nicholl]

I like the ones that at first glance don't appear to make any sense:

Nempnet Thrubwell, Gurney Slade ( poor old Anthony Newley) in Somerset and Mucking and Messing in Essex.

Peter