We've got Shitterton, (which was changed to Sitterton when the Queen visited the area, but it's being changed back). There's the Piddle river, & villages called Piddlehinton, etc. Some of these names have been changed to Puddle. ... For years Batten says he's heard tourists asking for the giant squid, and even had a couple track it down through a number of scientists and plan their vacation to Newfoundland based on the squid. PZ, was this you? ...
Similarly 'Affpuddle' from a personal OE name Aeffa, or 'Tolpuddle' meaning the estate of a woman called Tola, who gave these and other land to the monastery at Abbotsbury even before the Norman Conquest. ...
We've got Shitterton, (which was changed to Sitterton when the Queen visited the area, but it's being changed back). There's the Piddle river, & villages called Piddlehinton, etc. Some of these names have been changed to Puddle. ... For years Batten says he's heard tourists asking for the giant squid, and even had a couple track it down through a number of scientists and plan their vacation to Newfoundland based on the squid. PZ, was this you? ...
