The justification for our meticulous creation of extended station translations seems to hinge on the rather perplexing notion that, during the era of the Saxons, we found ourselves in a state of absolute idleness, as if the profound depths of nothingness beckoned us to embark on this riveting endeavor. Pray, does this not strike you as an intriguing pursuit of leisure?
Well, we have words in modern English that if you had to translate them to someone who had no context it would be a long explanation. "Cart-of-broiled-smoked-sausages-served-in-a-bread-bun" just doesn't roll off the tongue the way "hotdog cart" does. It makes sense if you know what a cart is and what a hotdog is. If you already know the word "holt", you can pretty easily grok what "north holt" means.
I imagine a lot of the length is rather verbosly expanding fairly normal contractions. Like "Bond Street" is not very far from "Bond's street", which is a perfectly normal contraction of what could be verbosally written "Street belonging to Sir Thomas Bond". I'm sure all these names come from a mix of normal contractions and just sloppy pronunciation. All standard stuff even today, although the common literacy and defined spelling of the modern world keeps everything a lot more grounded than it used to be.
This reminds me of a joke about how American rural communities give directions based on where things *used* to be. "Turn right where old Jim's barn burned down, then left where they used to have that sheep farm..." But that's literally what these names in your video are. Stations at so-and-so's farm, the place on the hill with the tree, etc.
There's a city in my country where people kind of do that. The city's changed hands so many times during the 20th century (with each new regime/country renaming everything) that older people might refer to streets by the name they had when they frequented it.
made me think of this place near where I grew up, in the neighbourhood of Ipiranga, in São Paulo, Brasil. there's a place with street vendors selling fruits and vegetables on weekends that everyone calls "the fair of the gunpowder tank", but for at least 150 years of history there has been NO tanks at all there 😂
Could Ruislip’s “jumping place” be a stile (i.e. somewhere for people to cross field boundary fences or walls)? A couple of places near where I grew up me have *Lypiatt* in the name, and apparently that derives from “leap gate”, a local dialect word for a stile…
I'm guessing (and really just guessing) that 'slip' could be a cognate of Scots 'slap', which meant (among other things) a gap in a fence or wall, or a narrow passage between buildings. I think in nautical language 'slip' is still used as a space you can sail through, between two structures.
In fact, if you think about it, 'slip' as a verb still retains this meaning: He slipped through a gap in the trees. / Let me just slip through there. etc.
I don't know if I'll ever visit London, but for some reason I really enjoy these vids. Hell, I feel I could enjoy being taught about pretty much anything if the illustrious J. Draper were doing the talking.
out of curiosity, same treatment done to Washington DC's Orange Line (the closest transit line I live to: -New Carrollton: the new town of Carroll -Landover: the church enclosure among the small waters -Cheverly: goat pasture -Deanwood: dean's wood -Minnesota Ave: street of cloudy water -Stadium-Armory: stadium and armory -Potomac Avenue: street of the swan river -Eastern Market: eastern market -Capitol South: south of the Capitol building -Federal Center SW: southwest of the Federal Center -L'Enfant Plaza: square of the child -Smithsonian: that belonging to Smithson -Federal Triangle: a triangle of federal government buildings -Metro Center: the central-most point of the Metro system -McPherson Square: square of the parson's son -Farragut West: west of the good traveler's square -Foggy Bottom-GWU: the fog-shrouded bottomlands and the university of the farmer of the settlement of Hwæssa -Rosslyn: promontory's land grant -Court House: court house -Clarendon: Clarence's valley or Clarence's fort -Virginia Square-GMU: the virgin's square and the university of the mason farmer -Ballston-MU: the bold one's town and the university of the mountain of the beloved -East Falls Church: east of the church of the waterfalls -West Falls Church: west of the church of the waterfalls -Dunn Loring: the brown man from Lorraine -Vienna: the forest stream
@davidsolomon9684 it took me (another New Zealander) a moment to realise that kiwifruit is now commonly shortened to just "kiwi". For a minute I thought you were either advocating the consumption of protected wildlife (the kiwi bird, usually referred to just as a kiwi), or cannibalism (we call ourselves Kiwis too) 😂
Is New South Wales also named after the Wales that is South of England? Did they not put an effort into new naming when they found yall? Could have used the native names only then. Those are some pretty languages too.
As an American I'm endlessly fascinated by British place names. Some of them sound so weird but when you break it down you realize "Oh, its in English". We have so many places and things here named in French, Spanish, German, Polish, not to mention hundreds of African and Indigenous American languages it hardly ever makes sense in English. Same with English Names. Like, ooh, Thatcher, whats that mean? Oh, your family were Thatchers. Carpenter? Your family were carpenters. Ect
I definitely would find it strange to live somewhere where place names were old enough that some of their meanings were beginning to be lost due to changes in language, but I bet that's pretty normal throughout Europe.
My town Dunfermline, broken up into dun-ferm-lin was fort-over-river in old Scots, haha 😆 Well, we don’t have a fort anymore, but we do have the remains of an abbey, monastery/palace and a river, so!
But only after reversing at Heathrow T4 or 5, unless it's a Tuesday in May. Or you're playing Harston's XI edition, in which case you're fine provided you have, at some point, passed through Green Park.
Because unless you're playing the 1923 Merton rules, travelling on the Elizabeth line to Hainault is an invalid switchback because of it's proximity to Oxford Circus.
I think a "jumping place" could be a small waterfall... like that's one of the ways we use it in Spanish. And it would make sense that they talk about rushes in the same sentence.
Same in French. A "saut" (formerly spelt "sault") is a waterfall, and also means to jump. (It can also mean "rapids".) Quite a few places here in Canada have "Sault" in their names. I can imagine people in England might have picked it up from French.
Precisely. A place from which to jump, or--if you consider the continued use of "slip" in regards to boats--you are talking about a place for "going into the water" (e.g., sliding on a slipway, jumping from a height--in other words: dropping into the water).
I once took out a book from my college library years ago on this topic. It's called "Why Do Shepherd's Need a Bush?" and it explained every tube station's name's etymology. Very helpful book when someone like me is a Tube fanatic 😂.
I'd love to hear the Northern Line names explained next time. In the summer of 2000, I was an American taking university classes in London. My host family lived near Archway Station and I took the Northern Line to Goodge Street or Tottenham Court Road to get to my classes in Bloomsbury.
Now I want to cross-reference these to The Welsh Viking's recent video on places in England with Welsh-based names, because I think there's at least one that's the same place. I'll have to check.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! Your posts are a delightful relief from American politics, Donald Trump, “Christian” nationalists, the Republican Party, and the nightmare vision of our possible future. Thank you.
One thing a monarchy gives you is continuity. As long as they're responsible with their power. Britain hasn't had an autocratic narcissistic king since, we,ll, J Draper would know. In the profiles of Queen Elizabeth it's often noted how many prime ministers and American presidents she saw come and go.
I saw a comment yesterday talking about how old* California is. I pointed out that it was founded in 1850, which in European terms is relatively young. *I know that California existed long before European settlers arrived - I was just talking about in official terms.
I was asked by an American tourist once, " When was the Tower of London built ?" I used to walk past it every morning on my way to work. He was astounded when I nonchalantly replied "About 1070 or so, I think"
Do the Northern Line next! I used to live by one of the stops right at one end, I’d be curious what it means. Yes, this is an entirely selfish suggestion 😁
@@johnfry1011 going through my head right now, thanks for that! Funnily enough the only time I have been up that way there was a RRBS who apparently didn't even care if we used our oyster cards. It might have been broken, no idea. Free trip from Buckhurst Hill to Woodford.
I think if a video like this was made for the nyc subway, it would just turn into an explanation of the neighborhood names since all the train stations are street names and neighborhood names.
Hainault was also a region in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages--I forget if it was an earldom or what. Edward III's queen, Philippa, came from there. Major trading partner for English wool, I think.
The U.S. has such a wide selection of names for cities, towns, counties, and territories, that all come from hundreds of sources. Often times those names give you a clue about the history of the region and it's colonists. In NY State, alone, get ready for names like Tappan Zee (after the Tappan people of the Lanape tribe, and the Dutch word for "sea"), Syracuse (after the city in Sicily due their common business of manufacturing of salt), and Albany (after the Scottish "Duke of Albany").
I have no academic basis for this, but I suspect that the "jumping place" in Ruislip may be a location where a river or steam might be jumped. It'd be like a ford except your feet don't get wet.
My family were stationed in England when my father was a contractor with the Navy and we lived in Rickmansworth so could you do the Metropolitan Line next.
Holborn station is named after the area it's in. Bond Street station because it's next to bond Street, Oxford Circus station because it's on Oxford Circus
Amazing thanks. Just today I was watching a video about villages along a uk canal, and then I noticed that some of the towns had the suffix of “Regis”. This took me on a journey to find out the reason, meaning and etymology of this word. Now that I know what it signified, it makes sense that there are around 19 places with the suffix of Regis. 🙂 Anyway, that’s my story 🤣 Thanks again for another fascinating video. 🙂🐿🌈❤️
Yes, site of the famous Anglo-Saxon Trampoline Tourney. The winner was made King of the East Saxons for a year. Then he was ritually sacrificed via flaying alive, and his skin was used to make the next tourney's trampoline.
I don't remember which line it is, but I have been dying to know the origins of the name "Elephant and Castle." Especially considering that there are no elephants in England (save for in zoos), and there isn't a castle in the neighborhood the stop is named after, I always thought it was such a curious name back when I was living there, and have been dying to know the origins of it. I mean, I get that the stop is named after the neighborhood of the same name, but where did the name itself come from?
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Some of those translations were so long it makes you think what the hell were the Saxons and Normans doing when creating old english
Making it difficult for the rest of us! 😉
The justification for our meticulous creation of extended station translations seems to hinge on the rather perplexing notion that, during the era of the Saxons, we found ourselves in a state of absolute idleness, as if the profound depths of nothingness beckoned us to embark on this riveting endeavor. Pray, does this not strike you as an intriguing pursuit of leisure?
Well, we have words in modern English that if you had to translate them to someone who had no context it would be a long explanation. "Cart-of-broiled-smoked-sausages-served-in-a-bread-bun" just doesn't roll off the tongue the way "hotdog cart" does. It makes sense if you know what a cart is and what a hotdog is. If you already know the word "holt", you can pretty easily grok what "north holt" means.
The Normans didn't have much to do with creating Old English. They rather trashed it and ushered in Middle English.
I imagine a lot of the length is rather verbosly expanding fairly normal contractions.
Like "Bond Street" is not very far from "Bond's street", which is a perfectly normal contraction of what could be verbosally written "Street belonging to Sir Thomas Bond".
I'm sure all these names come from a mix of normal contractions and just sloppy pronunciation. All standard stuff even today, although the common literacy and defined spelling of the modern world keeps everything a lot more grounded than it used to be.
This reminds me of a joke about how American rural communities give directions based on where things *used* to be. "Turn right where old Jim's barn burned down, then left where they used to have that sheep farm..." But that's literally what these names in your video are. Stations at so-and-so's farm, the place on the hill with the tree, etc.
There's a city in my country where people kind of do that. The city's changed hands so many times during the 20th century (with each new regime/country renaming everything) that older people might refer to streets by the name they had when they frequented it.
made me think of this place near where I grew up, in the neighbourhood of Ipiranga, in São Paulo, Brasil. there's a place with street vendors selling fruits and vegetables on weekends that everyone calls "the fair of the gunpowder tank", but for at least 150 years of history there has been NO tanks at all there 😂
@@2712animefreak what country? 😲
Could Ruislip’s “jumping place” be a stile (i.e. somewhere for people to cross field boundary fences or walls)?
A couple of places near where I grew up me have *Lypiatt* in the name, and apparently that derives from “leap gate”, a local dialect word for a stile…
I'm guessing (and really just guessing) that 'slip' could be a cognate of Scots 'slap', which meant (among other things) a gap in a fence or wall, or a narrow passage between buildings. I think in nautical language 'slip' is still used as a space you can sail through, between two structures.
In fact, if you think about it, 'slip' as a verb still retains this meaning: He slipped through a gap in the trees. / Let me just slip through there. etc.
A place where you can easily jump over a stream?
Maybe something to do with jumping while hunting on horseback?
Perhaps an old dogging hotspot?
my favourite Sir Thomas Bond fact is that the Bond family motto is Orbis Non Sufficit - or, "The World is not Enough"
I don't know if I'll ever visit London, but for some reason I really enjoy these vids. Hell, I feel I could enjoy being taught about pretty much anything if the illustrious J. Draper were doing the talking.
out of curiosity, same treatment done to Washington DC's Orange Line (the closest transit line I live to:
-New Carrollton: the new town of Carroll
-Landover: the church enclosure among the small waters
-Cheverly: goat pasture
-Deanwood: dean's wood
-Minnesota Ave: street of cloudy water
-Stadium-Armory: stadium and armory
-Potomac Avenue: street of the swan river
-Eastern Market: eastern market
-Capitol South: south of the Capitol building
-Federal Center SW: southwest of the Federal Center
-L'Enfant Plaza: square of the child
-Smithsonian: that belonging to Smithson
-Federal Triangle: a triangle of federal government buildings
-Metro Center: the central-most point of the Metro system
-McPherson Square: square of the parson's son
-Farragut West: west of the good traveler's square
-Foggy Bottom-GWU: the fog-shrouded bottomlands and the university of the farmer of the settlement of Hwæssa
-Rosslyn: promontory's land grant
-Court House: court house
-Clarendon: Clarence's valley or Clarence's fort
-Virginia Square-GMU: the virgin's square and the university of the mason farmer
-Ballston-MU: the bold one's town and the university of the mountain of the beloved
-East Falls Church: east of the church of the waterfalls
-West Falls Church: west of the church of the waterfalls
-Dunn Loring: the brown man from Lorraine
-Vienna: the forest stream
Landover where the Baptist Church is?
Such a contrast to the US, where we still pretend history here is only a few hundred years old.
Me, a kiwi with limited holiday experience in London:
*waves hands* Ooo! Ooo I know a couple of those!
Why does this make me want to eat a kiwi 😅.
@@davidsolomon9684this makes me want to eat the animal
@davidsolomon9684 it took me (another New Zealander) a moment to realise that kiwifruit is now commonly shortened to just "kiwi". For a minute I thought you were either advocating the consumption of protected wildlife (the kiwi bird, usually referred to just as a kiwi), or cannibalism (we call ourselves Kiwis too) 😂
I imagine Ruislip something where people jumped over a narrow stream, maybe with a pole like the Frisian do with fierljeppen.
It was also done in the wetlands of Lincolnshire and Norfolk (I think) so it’s not a bad suggestion at all 👍
Yes it was over the river Pinn, which is very narrow
I live near a part of Glasgow called Netherlee.
In a place name Nether means low lying, so Netherlee can be interpreted as...
Low Lie Lee.
Low Lying Shelter perhaps? or "Pasture" if Lee derives from "Leah"
Good of you to include even the "obvious" ones 😊
That was fabulous! Cheers from Epping in Australia, named after your Epping of course.
It's nice to share!
Which Epping? I know the one in Sydney is somewhat elevated.
@@JulianSortland Epping in Sydney. There is an Epping in Melbourne too.
Is New South Wales also named after the Wales that is South of England? Did they not put an effort into new naming when they found yall? Could have used the native names only then. Those are some pretty languages too.
@@shramanadasdutta3006 Yes Captain Cook I believe decided some part of it was like South Wales.
As an American I'm endlessly fascinated by British place names. Some of them sound so weird but when you break it down you realize "Oh, its in English". We have so many places and things here named in French, Spanish, German, Polish, not to mention hundreds of African and Indigenous American languages it hardly ever makes sense in English. Same with English Names. Like, ooh, Thatcher, whats that mean? Oh, your family were Thatchers. Carpenter? Your family were carpenters. Ect
A Pickles here. 😎
Schwarzenegger = one who harrows black soil.
This always makes me think of Peggy Bundy and her family from Wisconsin. Did Americans know the meaning? 😁
I definitely would find it strange to live somewhere where place names were old enough that some of their meanings were beginning to be lost due to changes in language, but I bet that's pretty normal throughout Europe.
My town Dunfermline, broken up into dun-ferm-lin was fort-over-river in old Scots, haha 😆 Well, we don’t have a fort anymore, but we do have the remains of an abbey, monastery/palace and a river, so!
Please make sure you end at Mornington Crescent :)
Underrated comment
But only after reversing at Heathrow T4 or 5, unless it's a Tuesday in May. Or you're playing Harston's XI edition, in which case you're fine provided you have, at some point, passed through Green Park.
@@jamesmatthews291 absolutely :)
As both a Jago Hazzard fan and J Draper fan, this is a great video!
J. Draper will have to save the Northern Line until last, as the game ends, the moment she says, "Mornington Crescent".
Now hold on just a second. If Hainault is Abbey Wood, why can't i catch the Elizabeth Line there?
Because unless you're playing the 1923 Merton rules, travelling on the Elizabeth line to Hainault is an invalid switchback because of it's proximity to Oxford Circus.
Do them all! You are so wonderfully fun with your history! Always a blast to learn something new from your channel!
I think a "jumping place" could be a small waterfall... like that's one of the ways we use it in Spanish. And it would make sense that they talk about rushes in the same sentence.
A small fall in Britain would have stones across the river there, for jumping between: 'stepping stones' they are usually called.
Same in French. A "saut" (formerly spelt "sault") is a waterfall, and also means to jump. (It can also mean "rapids".) Quite a few places here in Canada have "Sault" in their names. I can imagine people in England might have picked it up from French.
Precisely. A place from which to jump, or--if you consider the continued use of "slip" in regards to boats--you are talking about a place for "going into the water" (e.g., sliding on a slipway, jumping from a height--in other words: dropping into the water).
I don't think I have paused and rewound a video as much as I have with this one.😵💫
She's teasing us! She *knew* not to sart with the Northern Line 🤣
I grew up in Epping. This brings joy to me😊
Hammersmith & City, only because it has Baker Street (insert Gerry's 🎷solo).
thanks, got it stuck in my head now 😅
I grew up in Cold Brayfield 😅 yes it was cold. The curtains used to blow away from the windows 😂
I once took out a book from my college library years ago on this topic. It's called "Why Do Shepherd's Need a Bush?" and it explained every tube station's name's etymology. Very helpful book when someone like me is a Tube fanatic 😂.
We need a tube map with the ‘real’ names on it!
That oak tree farm must have been MASSIVE.
So terrific, thank you.
This is why London is such an interesting city, everything is soooo rich in history yet the city is so modern and dynamic as well
Shout out to all the 80s kids who started singing the Grange Hill theme song during this vid
Do do do dooooo
Do the Waterloo & City Line!!!
Waterloo & City line next please. If it won’t take too long to research that is.
Truly fascinating, thank you. I am in awe of your knowledge.
As Jay Foreman told us, the red bridge was a local landmark - until the early 20th century when they tore it down.
Few things give a better view into history as the names of places and things. Within those, streetnames might be the most interesting.
Jumping Place may mean a horse jumping Place for the old traditional fox and hound hunts. Just a guess.
I'd love to hear the Northern Line names explained next time. In the summer of 2000, I was an American taking university classes in London. My host family lived near Archway Station and I took the Northern Line to Goodge Street or Tottenham Court Road to get to my classes in Bloomsbury.
The King County #226 line.
Perivale will always be where the best character in Doctor Who comes from. Ace is amazing and I will die on this hill, Mr RT Davis 😊
Picadilly next :)
Imagine being such a clown they turned your junction into a circus.
I thought Bank was a river bank...! Now I'm really Blushing Meadows.
Now I want to cross-reference these to The Welsh Viking's recent video on places in England with Welsh-based names, because I think there's at least one that's the same place. I'll have to check.
Brilliant and simple, many thanks.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! Your posts are a delightful relief from American politics, Donald Trump, “Christian” nationalists, the Republican Party, and the nightmare vision of our possible future. Thank you.
One thing a monarchy gives you is continuity. As long as they're responsible with their power. Britain hasn't had an autocratic narcissistic king since, we,ll, J Draper would know. In the profiles of Queen Elizabeth it's often noted how many prime ministers and American presidents she saw come and go.
Geoff Marshall is proud!
Ruislip reminded me of Islip (town in Long Island, NY which is named after the Islip in the UK). It means "slippery place by the River Ise"
Do the Waterloo & City line next please.
I've always wanted to look into all of these. Do the Northern Line next!
Shepard’s Bush is Shepard’s Bush, eh? That’s a lot more risqué than I expected!
Razors were expensive back then, so bushes were more common among the peasantry than they are now.
These days, it's nicknamed SheBu.
Some of these stations reference places or people more than a thousand years old, but in the UK that's just 🤷♂️
I saw a comment yesterday talking about how old* California is.
I pointed out that it was founded in 1850, which in European terms is relatively young.
*I know that California existed long before European settlers arrived - I was just talking about in official terms.
I was asked by an American tourist once, " When was the Tower of London built ?" I used to walk past it every morning on my way to work. He was astounded when I nonchalantly replied "About 1070 or so, I think"
Do the Northern Line next! I used to live by one of the stops right at one end, I’d be curious what it means. Yes, this is an entirely selfish suggestion 😁
Funny that Mile End is also a neighbourhood in my city (Montreal, Canada)
I was always curious about Liverpool Street
Thanks for the videos! Metropolitan line, please! I'd like to learn about Hatton Garden and Farringdon
Grange Hill is wrong Jenny. Everyone knows it's a TV series from the 80s! 😂
Whenever I pass through the theme tune goes through my head 😂
@@johnfry1011 going through my head right now, thanks for that! Funnily enough the only time I have been up that way there was a RRBS who apparently didn't even care if we used our oyster cards. It might have been broken, no idea. Free trip from Buckhurst Hill to Woodford.
Never forget the Giant Sausage On a Fork Plague of the 80s
TIL Grange Hill is a real place
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!
Never going to do my daily commute into bank the same ever again now I know all these.
I think this is brilliant never seen places done like this . Thanks ? Northern line next please.
I'm unsure if it's been covered already, but I'd love to hear the naming origins in the Metropoliitan line!
Thanks! Now I know and will never forget!
😂😂😂
Fun to watch anyway.
The Victoria Line was originally going to be called _Quimberly Dobson Custard Escapade_ but it got vetoed
There's an Animaniacs style song in there somewhere😂
I am sure Jay Foreman has something for this
@@sjmww1235 he does, just search "every tube station song"
I think if a video like this was made for the nyc subway, it would just turn into an explanation of the neighborhood names since all the train stations are street names and neighborhood names.
Where I live. Most things are named after trees, mountains, and seas. Mostly named after trees.
I can finally explain to.my husband why there is an "Effing Forest" in Discworld.
I heard the Theydon Bois were a rural street gang...
Rural street gangs are called path gangs.
I wonder if “jumping place” meant a place where a river was narrow enough to jump over, instead of fording it?
Makes perfect sense to the fossils who give directions based on landmarks which used to exist 50 years ago.
There needs to be an "Effing station".
all the Central Line station names mean "congrats your day is ruined"
Hainault was also a region in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages--I forget if it was an earldom or what. Edward III's queen, Philippa, came from there. Major trading partner for English wool, I think.
The U.S. has such a wide selection of names for cities, towns, counties, and territories, that all come from hundreds of sources. Often times those names give you a clue about the history of the region and it's colonists.
In NY State, alone, get ready for names like Tappan Zee (after the Tappan people of the Lanape tribe, and the Dutch word for "sea"), Syracuse (after the city in Sicily due their common business of manufacturing of salt), and Albany (after the Scottish "Duke of Albany").
I have no academic basis for this, but I suspect that the "jumping place" in Ruislip may be a location where a river or steam might be jumped. It'd be like a ford except your feet don't get wet.
District line next
I was under the impression that "den" usually meant a campground in a woodland? E.g. like a seasonal hunting camp belonging to a particular tribe.
My head is spinning 😂
Thanks. (And I thought the New York City subway was complicated...)
My family were stationed in England when my father was a contractor with the Navy and we lived in Rickmansworth so could you do the Metropolitan Line next.
1:58 Da dah dan daaah.
Fantastic
Thank you
Do the Waterloo and City next
I sure hope that a Shepherd's Bush means shepherd that goes by the name of Bush rather then a bush of a Shepherd.
What does the "sayers" in "sayers brook" mean? Is it a name, profession, or something or other?
Have you done the Circle Line?
Holborn station is named after the area it's in. Bond Street station because it's next to bond Street, Oxford Circus station because it's on Oxford Circus
Really interesting on the place names. You should meet up with Jago Hazzrd.
Piccadilly!
Jubilee Line next!!!
I'm taking an Uber!🤔
Amazing thanks.
Just today I was watching a video about villages along a uk canal, and then I noticed that some of the towns had the suffix of “Regis”.
This took me on a journey to find out the reason, meaning and etymology of this word.
Now that I know what it signified, it makes sense that there are around 19 places with the suffix of Regis. 🙂
Anyway, that’s my story 🤣
Thanks again for another fascinating video.
🙂🐿🌈❤️
Explanation for Oval, please, if you feel like it, hahaha 😂
Do the Jubilee line!
When I hear, “jumping place”, I think trampoline.
Yes, site of the famous Anglo-Saxon Trampoline Tourney. The winner was made King of the East Saxons for a year. Then he was ritually sacrificed via flaying alive, and his skin was used to make the next tourney's trampoline.
Grange Hill wasn't named after the school then? :P
Isn’t Hainault a duchy in Belgium?
I don't remember which line it is, but I have been dying to know the origins of the name "Elephant and Castle." Especially considering that there are no elephants in England (save for in zoos), and there isn't a castle in the neighborhood the stop is named after, I always thought it was such a curious name back when I was living there, and have been dying to know the origins of it. I mean, I get that the stop is named after the neighborhood of the same name, but where did the name itself come from?
Wow, Hainault is "abbey wood". Now when I'm in London I'm definitely going to confuse the two, that's just how my brain works.
Hainault Forest was named for Queen Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, whose father was the Count of Hainault in modern-day Belgium
District line please! 🚅
Northern Line. How did Edgware get its name?
Hammersmith