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  THE village of Shadforth lies to the east of Durham and has a name about getting from one side of a river to another.
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  HASWELL is an old colliery town just outside Durham, but what is it about its name that is utterly mysterious to modern ears?
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  THE ancient village of Sockburn is famous for its position in a loop of the Tees and a legend about a local dragon, the Worm.
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  WHITTON on the edge of Middlesbrough has a name that seems to recall the founder of a settlement, 1,200 or 1,300 years ago.
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  NAMES change. Nothing wrong with that. What for the Romans was Eboracum was slurred by the Anglo- Saxons into Eoforwic, then mispronounced by the Vikings as Jorvik and abbreviated by we moderns
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  THERE are about ten villages named Butterwick spread over the North of England, from Lincolnshire to Cumbria, including Ryedale’s Butterwick, near Malton.
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  NUNTHORPE, on the edge of Middlesbrough, has a name that brings us back more than 1,000 years.
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  TRIMDON, Trimdon Colliery and Trimdon Grange are small villages to the west of Hartlepool. Today, they are most famous for being the one-time residence of Tony Blair. But back in the Dark Ages,
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  THE village of Thrintoft, three miles west of Northallerton, has a name that takes us back to the Viking age.
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