On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:53:10 -0000, Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ... Could Snowden Close(NY 603 687) be another? Of the four early
> spellings (Cu:1.116), only one is with -r- (Snordenclose 1589).
> But 'snow' in this region would hardly be distinctive,
> and the place is in a winding valley.
In some former centuries the weather in Britain was colder than it was
recently (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ), and parts of the bottom
ofwinding valley may have been in shadow much in the winter and the snow
lasted there longer.
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