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I suppose this makes sense considering the Normans' much more heavy-handed subjugation of the north.

Got to agree with my fellow Suffolk folk that Sudbury was an absolute shocker to see as number 1. I actually said ‘Bloody Sudbury!’ Out loud, when you listed it as number one. As others have said, It has to be Woodbridge. Nice video anyway - really enjoyed it. :)

Had to be Arundel. Fabulous town.

Always thought Coggeshall is a bit of a hidden gem, glad to see you agree!

Truthfully, there is only really one place in Wales that can be called a city and that's Cardiff. I was born and raised in Swansea, but consider the city proper, no more than a big town surrounded by other smaller towns. Most of Wales's cities are mostly ecclesiastical or basically the largest population centres in their respective areas, even if a city they do not make. Wales is largely unurbanised and the interior up to North Wales is a handfull of people and some sheep, so outside of Swansea to the south east border, Wales is just fairly rural, a bit like Ireland really.

Great video on my nation, the one i'm very very proud of. I will always be proud to be a Welshman, born here, live here and will die here and i'm happy to live in the county of the capital of North Wales and now the forth biggest in the country. Up until 2022 my nearest city was St Asaph with is 29 miles away from now the new city of Wrexham but very still a big and very old market town at heart, Diolch yn fawr

Chipping Sodbury twinned with Sodding Chipboardbury...

2:25 Oh, it's "Köping"! How the heck did "kaupangr" become "chipping"? 😀

A programme on the Slaughters, Upper and Lower, in the Cotswolds, would be really interesting.

Toddington a lovely village

Chipping - shopping

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wonderful information, I knew there was more to these town Names, I remember some of these and always wanted to know more, thank for your time and work

I’m Texan and I am completely ignorant on stuff like this. how fascinating. anyways i’ma linguistics fan or enthusiast and a history fan too so I enjoy anything like this. Watch a few of the linguistics ed channels, and there’s a fantastic American podcast called the History of English where he’s a lawyer by trade but he started the podcast as a side gig and does deep dives on word origins and well, what’s an etymology podcast on English without honoring our former tyrants😂 haha jk but I do enjoy it and I am glad this one came into my feed. Next question as I am a highly distracted person is, ok, so then how did chip come to be a verb like I am chipping away at this stone, and how did it come be like potato chip and or other usages for the word chip? are those related to ‘market’ also? I must ponder and contemplate this.😅

My dad grew up in Old Sodbury, which would be no doubt the basis of lots of fun jokes and jibes he not such a lovely man.

Do all of them have chippies and were they visited by King Edward? 🤔

4:31 That was my daily entry to school. The school buses dropped off on the drive up to the old abbey gatehouse. The posh bit of the school was built over the _lady chapel_ of the Abbey, and once a year we were allowed to visit the plastered painted chamber. I was there for the millennium of the foundation of Ramsey Abbey, when I was introduced to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 4:50 The school bus, which picked me up near home in Hemingford Grey, passed through St Ives ("sənoives"). In those days there were sheep and cattle stalls and a weekly livestock market. There was an abbattoir in Meadow Lane, where I spent a few weeks during a University vac job. I also had a trip on the train from Longstanton to St Ives with my Lambretta in the guards van. 7:22 Many is the time I have staggered home across that bridge after spending a few hours in the _Royal Oak_ with the boxer Joe Bugner who lived first on Needingworth Road, then near Wyton. He and his trainer, Andy Smith, would pop in for a jar or two on a Saturday. Later our allegiance shifted to the _Oliver Cromwell_ which had better lockins. I also drifted down the river unconscious - but not because of alcohol. I was sculling (St Ives Rowing Club) and a poorly coxed four in the opposite direction (towards Hemingford lock) was on the wrong side, raised blades, and hit me and the back of the head. I came to in the river. 7:57 The Great Whyte. As a sixth former chums and I would pop into pubs along there. We moved to Hemingford Grey in 1968 from Yorkshire, and I was deeply saddened when the historic county was obliterated a few years later.

Great video Alex, Happy New Year.

Great production thanks!

Population will have risen since due to our renegade governments sponsoring the invaders.

Very satisfying production as usual! Stay safe, eat well, get enough rest.

Great video, thanks 😊

I love Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My favourite is double chocolate chipping

Interesting commentary as usual. I do recall that you did several heygo tours in Wales including to the unpronounceable city. Thank you. Happy New year.

Thanks!

i once visited lampeter and was amazed at it's small size and remoteness, i believe the smallest settlement in the UK with a university in it. great video alex, i've watched all of yours now and especially enjoyed the sussex ones as that's where i'm from :)

Very nice, Alex! Hope to see much of Wales one day; the small and big!

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Sodding Chipbury

Wales has always been one of my favourite parts of England.

My compliments for your deep analysis of both language and history. Thank you for the video. Anthony

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Luton, Reading, Northampton, Bournemouth should all be cities - the gatekeeping that prevents it is just weird.

There is a Chipping in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. Beautiful little village.

Maaate! Where have you been all my life? Just stumbled on this channel

My home ❤

I'll be visiting Newport Pagnell in 2025. My first great grandfather in America came from there in 1639 to Yarmouth Plymouth.

Excellent and pleasingly informative! Thank you for sharing those interesting facts. ( your voice sounds familiar? Do you feature on a car related YT channel by any chance?) HNY 🙏

You missed Chipping in Lancashire.

I was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire! I am still, after all these years getting over that it is in Dorset! The nursing home where I was born is only several hundred metres from the old border with the County of Dorset! That was a close thing! Worse still Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch are now one administrative area. This means that County Gates (Poole) are no longer on the boundary! Bournemouth is only 214 years old, so wouldn’t feature amongst your very interesting towns, our favourite being New Alresford. Living 18,908 km’s away, it is easier to think there are less than 60,000 people in our area of Marlborough, which is a Unitary Authority!

You missed the world famous locksmiths from Fordingbridge: Chubb!

Can any body tell me where Loose Chippings is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There is a Chipping on the Lancs/Yorkshire border.

i am so pleased to be a Hampshire hog, you have seen the bronze statue of a hog outside the county offices, you must have, you visited the hall and it is opposite that. i belong to this county and although i was a baby when Bournemouth moved out of Hampshire, i still consider it a part mostly. I.O,W leaving makes sense though, it is just too expensive crossing the Solent for it to work

And before that it was Welsh

The verb "cheap" used to mean to trade, so "cheaping" would be "trading". The word is still used thus in some legal contexts.

There's a Royal Oak pub in Chipping Sodbury and Chipping Ongar

Cheapside. Chippendale.

Fantastic content, I love the history of place names.