Names ending in "ton" - Saxon (many here is Sussex) and "by" (more up north - where the Dane Law was) Viking

See:

http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-pl-england.htm

http://www.englishplacenames.co.uk/

by a farm, then a village
ingas (-ing) the people of ...
tun - an enclosure, farmstead

Here we have Lancing, Goring, (et al) Washington, Sullington, Durrington (et al)

I could say Brighton but that used to be called Brighthelmstone till The Prince Regent (later George IV) came, made his pleasure palace and made the town fashionable.


>No Witby that I know of, but there is a Whidby Island in Washington State. I no longer remember where the name came from though.
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>>>>>>What American cheeses are there, BTW?
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>>>>>What about Monterey Jack, Coby, Chedder. I think these are american.
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>>>>Cheddar is a cheese making region in England :-)
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>>>I said I think! lol We have Wisconson Chedder that is Not a cheese making region in England. rofl :-D
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>>I believe you also have a city called Boston, which is derived from anglo-saxon words (we have at least 2 towns of that name). I don't think the Angles and Saxons settled in the US though.
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>>You've probably got a Witby - I don't think the Danes and Jutes did either.
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>>I imagine emigrants took their particular cheese-making skills with them from England. We have Philly cheese over here but don't clain it to be OUR invention :-)
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>>FYI:
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>>http://www.cheddarcaves.co.uk/
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>>http://www.cheddarsomerset.co.uk/
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>>and the famous Cheddar Gorge:
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>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/panoramas/cheddar_360.shtml