| Show hades too breezy farm family left yorkshire place on moor has odd name the peculiarly named yorkshire farm of hades which is situated on the bleak moors near holmfirth Holm firth recently changed hands the previous occupier having left the place because he found it too cold living there no matter how much the fires were built up he and his family C could not keep warm oddly enough the next farm to it is called elysium says a writer in pearsons weekly of london cold blow a suburb of sutton surrey was formerly known as little hell but its situation on the bleak banstead balstead Ban stead downs made its name so inappropriate that it was changed place names are rarely altered in this country family influence managed to get sheen c hanged changed to richmond and the Oxford shire village of hogs norton was altered to hook norton some time ago but the villagers of slough failed to get upton n royal adopted for slough one of the most unfortunately named villages in england was budworth Bux worth in derbyshire boisworth Bogs worth has now been substituted the original name dates back to the fourteenth century when one ralph bugge bailiff of the high peak had his homestead there Hertford shire has Us its nasty and essex its ugley agley the latter is really a pretty spot and the name comes from oakley i e an oak meadow so that the old rhyme ugly church ugly steeple ugly parson ugly people commonly associated with it would appear to be misplaced the name which occurs most often among our english places is sutton for there are no fewer than thirty six towns and villages bearing that name whilst a further fifty six have sutton as a prefix like sut ton upon trent order of popularity comes aston here being twenty four places with this name and forty three with it as part of t the he name then there are nineteen carstons Carl tons and twelve moretons More tons essex however would seem to have almost a monopoly on roding for within easy distance of each other we find haythorpe Ay thorpe roding white roding margaret roding leaden roding berners roding abbess roding and beauchamp roding a total of seven |
