[Facts] Re: Somerset
in reply to a message by Seda*
There is excellent cider that goes by the name Somerset, and it comes from the area in the south west of England. There are varoius place-names in Britain, their names are explained as "(District of) settlers around Somerton". Somerton again originally was a "farmstead used in summer", except Somerton, Suffolk, which used to be "a farmstead of a man called Sumarlithi" (an Old Scandinavian name).All of this is taken from the Oxford Dictionary of Place-names (1998).Andy ;—)
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Somerset  ·  Seda*  ·  10/15/2004, 8:41 PM
Re: Somerset  ·  Andy  ·  10/18/2004, 1:21 AM
Re: Somerset  ·  Ciarda Rayne  ·  10/15/2004, 11:50 PM
thanks!..nt  ·  Seda*  ·  10/16/2004, 12:48 PM