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Description
"The Wiki entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltwhistle says that "The name of Haltwhistle has nothing to do with a railway stop. Early forms of the name are Hautwesel (1240), Hautwysel (1254), Hawtewysill (1279), Haltwesell (Speede 1610). The first part of the name is probably derived from Old English hēafod, here 'hill-top', in general, 'head', 'headland', 'summit', 'upper end' or 'source of a stream'. If so, it describes the hill-top on which Holy Cross Church and the oldest part of Haltwhistle was built, enclosed on the north-east and west by Haltwhistle Brook and on the south by the South Tyne. Rowland suggests Hal from 'hill'. Another suggestion is the French haut-, meaning 'high', although the settlement existed long before the Norman Conquest. The second part -twistle relates to two streams or rivers. It derives from two Old English words twicce or twise, 'twice', 'division into two' and wella, 'stream, brook'. The second word is reduced in the compound word to ull, making twicculla, twisella. All but one of the examples in place names represent a high tongue of land between two streams where they join."" Photo by Mike Quinn, 2011. -
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2559098
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 7 years, 3 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2011-08-18 -
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