Re: Naming a mysterious village

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:17:10 -0000, Julian Flood
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rec.arts.sf.composition:

> "Brian M. Scott"

>> and a hill in the North Riding called Roseberry Topping.

> That's a very distictive extinct volcano, visible for miles.

Thanks; I've not actually seen it, unfortunately. (The
name, by the way, is recorded in a 15th century copy of a
document of 1119 as <Othenesberg>, probably from <Óðins
bjarg> 'Óðinn's rock'.)

> Don't forget Greater and Lesser Cockup.

Or as the map that I'm looking at would have it, Great and
Little Cockup.

Brian
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