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Thread #109153   Message #2280941
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
06-Mar-08 - 03:47 AM
Thread Name: Nic Jones - Analysis of Little Musgrave
Subject: RE: Nic Jones - Analysis of Little Musgrave
After a vast amount of research (OK, I put "Bucklesfordbury" into a search engine) I found the following:

There appear to be only two surviving placenames with the -fordbury ending (the *ford* bit seems to have been lost from some placenames which originally had it). These are Bayfordbury and Hertingfordbury, both within a few miles of Hertford (Hertfordshire, England). Names which have the Buckle- prefix are also fairly rare, the only three I know are Bucklesbury (a district of Hitchin, Herts) and Upper Bucklebury / Bucklebury in Berkshire.

What relevance this has to Westmorland, still less Kentucky, I have no idea.
There's a very funny bawdy version (not the Kippers) somewhere in one of the other threads which I can't be arsed to look for, but someone could.