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There's a Torbay in Newfoundland, just north of here, apparently named after a Torbay in Britain. I'd always thought it was Norse in origin (I have a Norwegian husband - so why wouldn't I think that the "tor"part was Norwegian) until I looked it up one day, and it had the meaning of craggy hill, so it's "Craggy Hill Bay". Which is right, if you see the place! 
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one of my favourite place names is Charing Cross in London.
When I was in London over spring break we rode the tube quite a bit. I thought the most intriguing stop name was Elephant and Castle. I've since learned that it's a mondegreen for "le enfant de Castille". I'm not sure what that means, but I like the new name more.
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I think it's "l'enfant de Castille", which would mean "Castillian child" - Spanish baby!, not altogether unlike Faldage's Swedish mama!
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and presumable about Catherine of Arregone, Henry VIII's first wife. (a princess of castille!)
she came to england as a child, was married to Henry's older brother, Arthur, but the marriage was never consumated. (they were both preteens at the time of the marriage.)
when arthur died, she was kept in england, and eventually married to Henry, but by now, she was no longer a child, and about 6 years older then Henry. (she was about 24 when was Henry's 19 years old)
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The origins of the name Elephant and Castle are lost in the mists of time, but Infanta of Castile is one possibility. However the Infanta in question was probably Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, and none other than the origin of Charing Cross (see above).
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The name-origins of some small towns near Birmingham, (Origin Unknown) Alabama (Albamos Indians) like many place names are quaint, ignorant, cutesy, pretentious and sometimes amusing. One example...>REMLAP< A family of early settlers immodestly chose to name a town, near Locust Forks, after themselves. Their name was Palmer. The Palmers apparently were a contentious clan, five families of Palmers got mad and moved ten miles down the road and established the town of REMLAP -which is Palmer spelled backwards. The REMLAP Palmers were probly right about the Palmer Palmers -a hundred years later the descendents of the Palmers of Palmer changed the name of their town to the more high-faluting sounding PALMERDALE.
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a Pommie Bastard who was probably marinating his brain in gin at the time.
and the name of the Pommy bastard in question was, I believe, Winston Churchill, who became more famous than infamous in a later war... :)
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yep, mav... max had already noted "WSC".
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On the radio, Matt Dillon was played by William Conrad.
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