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valley_parade:
"Glossop". "Ladybower".

I don't even.

valley_parade:
I just find every name he listed to be very silly sounding, aside from Sheffield.

Barmymoo:
England has the best names.

Except maybe Australia.

Mister D Nomms:
I've been eating my meat extremely rare and turned the heat way down to 50.

The Seldom Killer:
A lot of Saxon derived names can sound silly, largely though continous, pre-scholastic dialectic bastardisation. Glossop is believed to derive from Glott's Hop, which would mean Glott's Valley. Ladybower is a local contraction of Ladybower Reservoir, which takes it's name from the Ladybower Tor that sits above the lost village of Ashopton and that in turn is believed to take it's name from a local farming family by the name of Bower. The reservoir itself sits in the Derwent Valley, site of the test runs for the Bouncing Bomb, or Project Chastise, which is the story behind the classic war film, The Dambusters.

Derbyshire is also home to such delights as Flash, Unthank, Wormhill, Shatton and Cockyard.

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