Cultural clues to locations/origins

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 22720


This is getting a litte OT perhaps...

Ingenuous speculation that Hogsmeade might have coem from provison of 
mad (the drink) though a conventional explenation woud give -mede as 
coming from 'meadow'. On the other hand doesnt sound as if the 
village is associated with meadowland?

Those who want to look up the glory of British names try the UK 
gazeteer site at;

http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/

Edis (who lives close to a town which chnged itsn ame to Woburn Sands 
when the railways came. The rail company  didn't want a station 
called Hogsty End).