Names of the streets
Weel – they mean anything to anybody? – Mensforth?
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I shall endevour to find out and will report back ASP master...
ReplyDeletemaster,
ReplyDeletemonsieur mensforth here, your humble servant.
I have tried. here is my thesis on the subject after several hours of painstaking research:
There are 13 street names on Kenton Bar Estate and I suggest that... 9 of there are named after hamlets/villages in Northumberland.(check via google maps)Now as for the other 4, Hazeldene Avenue: Hazeldene a compound word from the root words hazel(tree)+dene(valley),Hazeley Way: again using root word hazel + 'ey'-ey is a suffix originating from nordic(viking) meaning island or dry place. Fawley is 'a clearing frequented by fallow deer' and if you think about it Fawley Green was a kind of clearing (but with a block of lacks in the middle!), Mallowburn Crescent: mallowburn a compound word from root words mallow(family of plants)+ burn(wonder if they were thinking of burn like byrn-northumbrian english for river?marshmallow plants grow in damp wet areas for example.As for the choices of 'avenue,green,place,walk,way they are obvious-2 greens, fawley and beal up the top, and indeed they were greens; walk because there was little or no car access as in ryal, studdon and hartburn; hazeldene avenue because avenue means a broad street, and it was the longest street on the estate, the key to all access. Finally apperley avenue-alliteration in the choice. NB, note none of them are called'street'!
Well done indeed Herr mensforth
ReplyDeleteI have a memory of Ryal walk being renamed Studdon Walk circa 1969- The GPO said it was too similar to Royal Walk. However, Google knows of no Royal Walk in the NE Postcode area and there seem to be both Ryal and Studdon walks.
ReplyDeleteAm I remembering it wrong?
shades:
ReplyDeleteyes, when i was a kid on the estate there was always a 'ryal walk' and 'studdon walk.That is still the case today...unless initially ryal walk went right through the estate including the 'studdon walk' bit...but why would they change half of it? Some sod must know the answers to these questions!
Another bit of trivia- when the Newsagent opened it was called "North Kenton News". When challenged, the shopkeeper said that Kenton Bar didn't exist in the eyes of the Post office.
ReplyDeletemaster,
ReplyDeletemonsieur mensforth here, your humble servant.
I have tried. here is my thesis on the subject after several hours of painstaking research:
There are 13 street names on Kenton Bar Estate and I suggest that... 9 of there are named after hamlets/villages in Northumberland.(check via google maps)Now as for the other 4, Hazeldene Avenue: Hazeldene a compound word from the root words hazel(tree)+dene(valley),Hazeley Way: again using root word hazel + 'ey'-ey is a suffix originating from nordic(viking) meaning island or dry place. Fawley is 'a clearing frequented by fallow deer' and if you think about it Fawley Green was a kind of clearing (but with a block of lacks in the middle!), Mallowburn Crescent: mallowburn a compound word from root words mallow(family of plants)+ burn(wonder if they were thinking of burn like byrn-northumbrian english for river?marshmallow plants grow in damp wet areas for example.As for the choices of 'avenue,green,place,walk,way they are obvious-2 greens, fawley and beal up the top, and indeed they were greens; walk because there was little or no car access as in ryal, studdon and hartburn; hazeldene avenue because avenue means a broad street, and it was the longest street on the estate, the key to all access. Finally apperley avenue-alliteration in the choice. NB, note none of them are called'street'!