Chapter Eight discussion, Snape, ESE!Lupin, quite a few other things

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 146891

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:

> Geoff wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/146540 :
>
> << Within a couple of miles or so or where I live, there is ...
> Worthy Wood >>
>
> Where is Unworthy Wood?

Geoff:
That was a trifle unworthy of you!

Being serious for a moment, The place name "worthy" or more commonly
the ending "-worthy" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "worthig" meaning a
smallholding.

Off the top of my head, I can think of local settlements such as
Selworthy, Badgworthy (famous as being the heart of Lorna Doone
territory), Elworthy and, in Devon, there are 2(!) places
delightfully named Woolfardisworthy. There is also Hamworthy in
Dorset and doubtless lots of others.

Instead of Unworthy, I could offer you three Unthanks and an Ugley as
UK places.

Keeping this post a bit more on the rails (it being a frosty and
cloudy Monday morning here), about five miles away is a small hamlet
called Burrow.

It is (w)easley found by turning off the main road a couple of miles
west of Minehead and driving through Wootton Courtney. (Ouch.)

Ho, hum, back to the real world.