From Wetwang to Crackpot: Five weird and wonderful place names in Yorkshire

By Lorraine Behrens
Published 30th Jul 2022, 06:00 GMT
There’s nowt so queer as some of the place names in the county of Yorkshire.

Here are five peculiar examples.

Five weird and wonderful place names in Yorkshire.Five weird and wonderful place names in Yorkshire.
Five weird and wonderful place names in Yorkshire.
Blubberhouses: The name of the Washburn Valley village probably derives from an Anglo Saxon description of “houses near a blubbering stream”. Another and rather sad view is that it relates to the weeping of children as they trudged along the Washburn Valley at the crack of dawn to start their day's work at the local flax and linen mills more than 200 years ago.Blubberhouses: The name of the Washburn Valley village probably derives from an Anglo Saxon description of “houses near a blubbering stream”. Another and rather sad view is that it relates to the weeping of children as they trudged along the Washburn Valley at the crack of dawn to start their day's work at the local flax and linen mills more than 200 years ago.
Blubberhouses: The name of the Washburn Valley village probably derives from an Anglo Saxon description of “houses near a blubbering stream”. Another and rather sad view is that it relates to the weeping of children as they trudged along the Washburn Valley at the crack of dawn to start their day's work at the local flax and linen mills more than 200 years ago.
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