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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 368.1 | | LARVAE::WILLIAMS_L | But a banana is better | Fri Oct 19 1990 14:03 | 1 |
| Don't tempt me!
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| 368.2 | | CURRNT::ROWELLW | Mertilizer set to DEEP FAT FRY | Mon Oct 22 1990 11:38 | 3 |
| I know where the term Lychpit comes from. ;-)
Wayne
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| 368.3 | just a guess | CURRNT::WALTHER | This alarm has a vehicle fitted | Mon Oct 22 1990 13:29 | 3 |
| it could be a derivation of the Dutch word "winkel" which means shop.
Perhaps it's a town that at one stage provided good shopping for the
area?
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| 368.4 | bit like "head of navigation" ? | BRABAM::PHILPOTT | Col I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' Philpott | Mon Oct 22 1990 13:39 | 8 |
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or perhaps it represents the point where in the olden days winkles
carried in the traders mule train finally became uneatable and had to
be buried?
:-)
/. Ian .\
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| 368.5 | | VULCAN::SMITHP1 | bibble, blah, bobble | Mon Oct 22 1990 14:07 | 13 |
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The suffix 'bury' indicates a settlement that grew up around a
tumulus. The prefix usually is a corruption of the name of the
person interred therein.
If you look at a large scale OS map of Basingstoke, drawn before
all the modern development, you will notice quite a few tumuli
all around the old town.
Perhaps the ancient neolithic chieftain Wicca now lies beneath
some 3 bedroom terraced with front and back garden.
p1
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| 368.6 | Fort land | LARVAE::MITCHELL | Citta del Duomo English branch | Mon Oct 22 1990 15:00 | 15 |
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HI
According to the local school it is so named because of the housing
that grew up around an old (iron age??) fort that was built on a mound
there.
The local school is called Fort Hill and in fact my Parents who live in
a house that backs onto Fort Hill school have a lump of Garden with a
preservation order on it. The aforementioned lump is apparently part of
the original wall. Every six months a women from the council comes
round and ensures my dad hasn't dug it up.
Andy
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