Re: Naming a mysterious village


Julian Flood wrote:
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> Look for real names: England has villages called Bradfield Combust,
> Licky End and Bergholt, Burton Coggles and Stratford Squeers, Spital
> in the Street and Ugley, World's End, Froxfield* Green and Coney
> Weston, Friars Bumpstead, White Ladies and Blossom, Langford and
> Six Mile Bottom. You should find what you're looking for in a road
> atlas. TP has, several times.

Interesting how often insignificant places have big names, as above,
whereas worldshaking cities have small names like Rome, Athens, Paris,
Mumbai, Beijing, Tokyo, NuYok.

This doesn't always hold true... although we have in my neck of the
woods a fair amount of the Chew Magnas, Norton Fitzwarrens and
Westbury-sub-Mendips there are also little villages called Mark
(actually, that's a 3-mile long ribbon village), Cheddar and,
appropriately enough, Meare. Still, if I was creating a small fantasy
village I would not be inclined to call it simply Bree, for instance...
It could be on a river (Bree-on-Rye?) or nestling under a range of
hills (Nevery-sub-Downs).

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Nick

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