Shires and Henges
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Jul 6 10:18:33 UTC 2009
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
zanooda:
> > I think it's exactly what happened :-). Everybody knows names like Yorkshire or Hampshire, but Wiltshire... Even my spell check underlines it, LOL! I personally never heard of it before, but I looked it up when I saw this strange translation. That's what the translator should have done :-).
Geoff:
Spell checkers will underline a lot of place names! But the translator should
certainly have looked...
There are umpteen counties ending in "-shire". In addition to the two
you mentioned, there are: Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Buckinghamshire,
Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Devonshire,
Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire,
Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Hertfordshire...
and that's off the top of my head without even touching Wales or
Scotland!
bboyminn:
> Unless I'm mistaken, Wiltshire is where Stonehenge, and several other 'henges', are. Yes, there is actually more than one 'henge'. Woodhenge comes to mind.
Geoff:
Yes, Stonehenge is about 9 miles north of Salisbury and 5 miles west of the Hampshire/Wiltshire border near Amesbury. Woodhenge is about 2 miles
north-east of Stonehenge. There is a henge at Avebury about 15 miles north of Stonehenge but this is usually known as Avebury Stone Circle.
There are some other notable henges at Thornborough in North Yorkshire.
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