Disappearing places

[m1.carson]

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that place names are being eaten up, a hill out of Reading was called, Shepherds House Hill, it's now called Shepherds Hill, wouldn't fit on the bus tickets, Berkshire is left off adresses, only a post code is used, we used to be Caversham and there was also a Caversham Heights, we're now, somehow, Lower Caversham.

Yet the little amount of research that I've carried out, Caversham meant calves hame, calves were pastured in the [once] lush water meadows, and not the widely believed "place of caves", who is it that can give the go ahead to change these names.

Whoever are responsible are vandals.

Max.

[ron1863]

Disappearing place names has been going on for many years all over the country, if you look at the old ordnance survey maps compared to the latest ones you will see what I mean.

[naturelover]

talking about disappearing places,did anyone see the news last night how the rain forests are getting destroyed for oil plants,i think this is a lot to do with our climat change somehow.

[ChrisJB]

I find disappearing place names really sad. They can say so much about the history and old wildlife of an area. We 'used' to have a local Cuckoo Hill, but the name has since disappeared and only a handful of locals now call it that. Eventually, the name will go for ever (and it has been physically defaced too with two ugly phone masts).

I also find irritating, when new developments are allocated street names which have no local distinctiveness. A new road near me has just been called 'Sir Isaac Newton Way'! How ridiculous! As far as I am aware, he had no ties to SE Lancs. We have plenty of historical/current local heroes who could put their name to this.

Regards, Chris

[paulchandler6]

Have noticed the opposite here. Some of the small hamlets/villages have been signed over the past couple of years with their proper names. For instance a small section outside of our main town and effectively part of it has been signed on the boundaries with its old name 'Winterbrook'.
Also when we had a bypass built all the sections were named after local people, one stretch of it being named after my old history teacher.

Paul

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by paulchandler6

Have noticed the opposite here. Some of the small hamlets/villages have been signed over the past couple of years with their proper names. For instance a small section outside of our main town and effectively part of it has been signed on the boundaries with its old name 'Winterbrook'.
Also when we had a bypass built all the sections were named after local people, one stretch of it being named after my old history teacher.

Paul

That's good to hear. I wish they'd follow suit up here.

Regards, Chris