I love Tintern Abbey [0]... When you're peacefully driving down the Wye Valley (say, after visiting Puzzlewood [1]), enjoying the green scenery and cosy little villages along the river, the last thing you expect are the colossal ruins of a medieval church... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey
Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
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Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well for one thing it didn't seem to transfer over to North America when the Brits (and French, etc) were naming towns and cities here in Canada, and the US...where I grew up. It's like a legacy thing. It seems they were more likely to stick to singular words here in NA when naming regions. So it's interesting to me? Is that taboo or something?
I don't see how "King's Rocks" (Tintern) is more weird than, say, "Gathering Place By The Water" (Milwaukee)...
I think you guys are taking "weird" a bit too literally, I don't mean it in a negative way.
If it was common here in Canada then I wouldn't find it 'weird' or unusual would I? And I can assure you it's not very common. Even if there are exceptions.
Regardless that was not what the Brits (or whichever Euro empire) chose to eventually name Milwaukee, they chose Milwaukee. So that's a poor counterpoint...
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#23You have to love the s/weird/unusual [1] names of places in the UK (and it looks like a beautiful area from the small picture): > Tintern, in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire There's also plenty of "upon the"s and "x-in-y" (ie: Henly-in-Arden). Not just the England but seems just as common in Scotland, or even more common. I can imagine the early computer systems of the postal organization having to deal with these quir…
I don't understand why this is a problem. It's a simple multi tier naming scheme. Don't Americans have Springfields everywhere?
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#24You have to love the s/weird/unusual [1] names of places in the UK (and it looks like a beautiful area from the small picture): > Tintern, in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire There's also plenty of "upon the"s and "x-in-y" (ie: Henly-in-Arden). Not just the England but seems just as common in Scotland, or even more common. I can imagine the early computer systems of the postal organization having to deal with these quir…
If you're interested, Wye comes from the name of the river, which means either to wander, or crooked hills. Either seem relevant given the strange way that the river wye goes from wide, slow meandering bends across floodplains into rapids through steep crooked valleys (as opposed to most rivers that start in mountains and end in floodplains.)
Monmouth is at the mouth of the river Monnow, a tributary of the Wye.
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#25You have to love the s/weird/unusual [1] names of places in the UK (and it looks like a beautiful area from the small picture): > Tintern, in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire There's also plenty of "upon the"s and "x-in-y" (ie: Henly-in-Arden). Not just the England but seems just as common in Scotland, or even more common. I can imagine the early computer systems of the postal organization having to deal with these quir…
I don't understand why this is a problem. It's a simple multi tier naming scheme. Don't Americans have Springfields everywhere?
No one said it was a problem, yikes. I regret bringing this up.
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s weird about that?
Well for one thing it didn't seem to transfer over to North America when the Brits (and French, etc) were naming towns and cities here in Canada, and the US...where I grew up. It's like a legacy thing. It seems they were more likely to stick to singular words here in NA when naming regions. So it's interesting to me? Is that taboo or something?
In the US, specifying the state seems to serve the same purpose of avoiding confusion. "Springfield, MA" and "Springfield, IL", as opposed to "Springfield-upon-Connecticut" and "Springfield-on-the-Lake".
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#27You have to love the s/weird/unusual [1] names of places in the UK (and it looks like a beautiful area from the small picture): > Tintern, in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire There's also plenty of "upon the"s and "x-in-y" (ie: Henly-in-Arden). Not just the England but seems just as common in Scotland, or even more common. I can imagine the early computer systems of the postal organization having to deal with these quir…
You'd probably enjoy "St Andrew by the Wardrobe" then:
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s weird about that?
Well for one thing it didn't seem to transfer over to North America when the Brits (and French, etc) were naming towns and cities here in Canada, and the US...where I grew up. It's like a legacy thing. It seems they were more likely to stick to singular words here in NA when naming regions. So it's interesting to me? Is that taboo or something?
The place is called Tintern.
It's being described as "in the Wye Valley", but that's not part of the name.
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well for one thing it didn't seem to transfer over to North America when the Brits (and French, etc) were naming towns and cities here in Canada, and the US...where I grew up. It's like a legacy thing. It seems they were more likely to stick to singular words here in NA when naming regions. So it's interesting to me? Is that taboo or something?
In the US, specifying the state seems to serve the same purpose of avoiding confusion. "Springfield, MA" and "Springfield, IL", as opposed to "Springfield-upon-Connecticut" and "Springfield-on-the-Lake".
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
#30I love Tintern Abbey [0]... When you're peacefully driving down the Wye Valley (say, after visiting Puzzlewood [1]), enjoying the green scenery and cosy little villages along the river, the last thing you expect are the colossal ruins of a medieval church... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzlewood
Me too. It's on one of my favourite bike rides too... the road up to Monmouth is a great day out from Bristol.