Map Enthusiasts

3491 readers

24 users here now

For the map enthused!

Rules:

post relevant content: interesting, informative, and/or pretty maps
be nice

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

228

Literal meanings of English counties (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, imagine if you were one of the 'Bright Ones', and you were trekking up to see the 'New Castle', and you'd heard it was in the land 'north of the Humber', and thought "can't be much further now" when you got the The Humber.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Back durong the Heptarchy pretty much everything north of the Humber was the Kingdom of Northumbria. The Danes took the southern half of the Kingdowm, leaving a Northumbria rump state over the approximate location of modern day Northumberland/Tyne and Wear.