Monday, June the 28th, 2010

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Names On Maps

Ordnance Survey Map 104 : Leeds and Bradford… It's a riot of names that could be nowhere else but Yorkshire: villages such as Luddendon Foot, Mytholmroyd, Farsley Beck Bottom, Wibsey, Odsal, Idle, Owlet, Harden, Greetland, Rastrick, Ossett, Soothill, Scarcroft, Wike, Kirkby Overblow, Spofforth, Scriven, Blubberhouses, Stainburn, Birstwith, Thwaites Brow, Cringles, Glusburn and Goose Eye—a list that sounds more like entries in a dictionary of Dickensian ailments.”

Mike Parker, Map Addict (2009)