The Garden of England |
Kent
- the county of
my birth. Being at the nearest point to Europe - it has seen many
invasions and battles.
Kent is bounded by London, Surrey, Sussex, the English Channel, the River Thames and is divided by the River Medway which runs approximately south-west from the River Thames of which it is a tributary. In Anglo-Saxon times - the population was identified as East Centings or West Centings depending on which side of the River Medway they lived. A form of this is still carried on today. If you are born on the west Side of the River Medway you are a Kentish Man otherwise you are a Man-of-Kent. Whereas all women born in the county are Fair Maids of Kent - after 14th-century Joan Plantagenet - the stunning daughter of the Earl of Kent. |
Norsemen's Kingdom |
Yorkshire
together with the counties
Northumberland
and
Durham
- were once part the
Norsemen's Kingdom.
Reminders of the Vikings remain in place names ending in
-slack
(gully or ravine),
-storth
(a woody place),
-toft
(a field),
-thorpe
(a hamlet) and
-thwaite
(a clearing or meadow).
The three Yorkshire Ridings are themselves divisions - named after an old Norse word meaning a thirding. |
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