| Surely a touch more imagination is available in this place to deal with the legacy of a past where we can't even agree on a placename. |
| The change to the shorter spelling appears to have originated in the Donald Map of 1774, a document with a noticeable number of placename errors. |
| Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations. |
| The placename may reflect worship of Thor there by Danes during the Viking Age rather than by Angles during the Roman Iron Age. |
| If they could not answer they were hoisted upside down and ceremonially beaten three times on the rear before being told the placename. |
| In the meantime, wood was more likely to be seen as a word in an ancient placename than on the ground. |
