And next door to both is Piddletown - and all three of them were originally named "Puddle........whatever", but the local councils - whether county or parish, I don't know - decided that Piddle was far more up-market than Puddle! It is the tone where the Puddletown Martyrs came from, and so for a small place, *very* famous in its own way!
Carol - a long way from Dorset, in Suffolk, UK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne & Michael Godfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lace chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] A town in Herefordshire, UK Hi All Ruth replied:- > Wyre Piddle is on the A4538 to Worcester. Its very, very roughly halfway > between Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon....probably less than 20 miles from > Stratford-upon-Avon. Lacy Socks doesn't appear on my road atlas. > > Pene Piip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Is it true that in rural Herefordshire there > are two towns near > each other called "Wyre Piddle" and "Lacy Socks"? There is a town called "Lacy Green" near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. In Dorset there are two villages called "Piddlehinton" and "Piddletrenthide"! Anne in sunny Derby, England. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
