Anyone in Nottingham?

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[mjr]

The Raleigh picture archive put online by Notts Libraries might give some idea:
https://www.inspirepicturearchive.org.u ... ch-results

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[mumbojumbo]

Soon we will all return to SA gearing.

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[Tangled Metal]

Last night Google news came up with a BBC bitesize link about historical information you can get from place names. What I found out about Nottingham's name is the origin from the Norman tendency to name places after who got gifted the land. Ham being village I think and so its Notting's village. Only the family gifted the land was called Snotting apparently. The Normans, like vikings, often dropped letters which is just as well for Snotting's Ham!

Sorry for the digression.

[Jdsk]

Last night Google news came up with a BBC bitesize link about historical information you can get from place names. What I found out about Nottingham's name is the origin from the Norman tendency to name places after who got gifted the land. Ham being village I think and so its Notting's village. Only the family gifted the land was called Snotting apparently. The Normans, like vikings, often dropped letters which is just as well for Snotting's Ham!

Snottingham was Anglo-Saxon, and existed long before the Norman invasion.

It was named after Snot or Snotta, rather than Snotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham#Toponym
https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/the ... m-history/

Jonathan

[Tangled Metal]

Last night Google news came up with a BBC bitesize link about historical information you can get from place names. What I found out about Nottingham's name is the origin from the Norman tendency to name places after who got gifted the land. Ham being village I think and so its Notting's village. Only the family gifted the land was called Snotting apparently. The Normans, like vikings, often dropped letters which is just as well for Snotting's Ham!

Snottingham was Anglo-Saxon, and existed long before the Norman invasion.

It was named after Snot or Snotta, rather than Snotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham#Toponym
https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/the ... m-history/

Jonathan

Perhaps let BBC bitesize know their article is wrong or at least misleading. However the dropping of the S was the Norman bit which was kind of my point that the city of snottingham could have still been in use.

[Jdsk]

Last night Google news came up with a BBC bitesize link about historical information you can get from place names. What I found out about Nottingham's name is the origin from the Norman tendency to name places after who got gifted the land. Ham being village I think and so its Notting's village. Only the family gifted the land was called Snotting apparently. The Normans, like vikings, often dropped letters which is just as well for Snotting's Ham!

Snottingham was Anglo-Saxon, and existed long before the Norman invasion.

It was named after Snot or Snotta, rather than Snotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham#Toponym
https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/the ... m-history/

Perhaps let BBC bitesize know their article is wrong or at least misleading. However the dropping of the S was the Norman bit which was kind of my point that the city of snottingham could have still been in use.

Is that about this?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4dmh4j

Which parts of that do you think are "wrong" or "misleading"?

Thanks

Jonathan

[TrevA]

Last night Google news came up with a BBC bitesize link about historical information you can get from place names. What I found out about Nottingham's name is the origin from the Norman tendency to name places after who got gifted the land. Ham being village I think and so its Notting's village. Only the family gifted the land was called Snotting apparently. The Normans, like vikings, often dropped letters which is just as well for Snotting's Ham!

Sorry for the digression.

The city is named after an Anglo Saxon named Snotta, who sailed up the Trent and decided it would be a good place for a settlement. Ham = home or homestead, Inga = the people of. So Snotta Inga Ham is the home of the people of Snotta.

Any born and bred Nottinghamian knows this! I’m fairly sure I was taught it at junior school, 50 odd years ago.

There is an area of Nottingham, east of the city centre called Sneinton, which also relates to Snotta.