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It cannot be denied that Abingdon arose by an abbey, for example, or that Maidstone is on the Medway.
It is they, therefore, as much as anybody, who are to blame for the continuing fiction that Abingdon means town of the abbey, that Boston is named for St. Botolph, that Coventry means place of the abbey, that the second word of Leighton Buzzard represents French beau désert, that Lichfield means field of the corpses, that Maidstone means Medway town, that Morpeth means moor path, that Redruth means town of the Druids, that Southend is so called because it is at the southern end of Essex, that Westminster is a minster west of St. Paul's Cathedral, and so on.
The Woman Who Cut off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club
Abingdon means Æbba's hill; Boston means Bōtwulf's stone; Conventry means Cofa's tree; Leighton Buzzard is named for the Busard family, who owned land here in the 13th century; Lichfield means open land near Letocetum, the latter name itself meaning gray wood; Maidstone probably means stone of the maidens (i.e., where the girls gathered); Morpeth, like it or not, means murder path; Redruth, a Cornish name, means red ford; Southend arose at the southern end of Prittlewell parish; Westminster is west of the City of London.
In the Weald, haazes , the h dropped, is still used for haws . Occasionally, the close listener in autumn may also hear the pre-1939 generation call them harves . I am sixty-five, but when I was a boy living in the North Downland area south of Sittingbourne up to Maidstone, it was common to hear children calling haws arzey-garzeys , sometimes varied to azzy-gazzies . I haven't heard this for many years and I fear when my generation has “crossed over” this description, like my generation, will be defunct.
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