UK City Names Explained
Added 2025-05-01 21:46:04 +0000 UTC
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Leicester is the capital of Leicestershire?
Killermcknight
2025-05-02 13:40:09 +0000 UTCGreat reaction and vid, I think our counties are similar to your states. Iβm from the city of Leicester but now live in a town in Leicestershire about 12 miles from Leicester.
Mark Sanders
2025-05-02 09:32:48 +0000 UTCI'll give a couple of bonus facts though, York and therefore Yorkshire is a Viking name derived from Jorvik. Theres a lot of Norse/Viking names up here such as Scarborough (which I believe you can also find in Canada eh) New York was actually originally called New Amsterdam and was a Dutch settlement. When the English fought them and took it over it was renamed to New York as (I believe) a birthday gift to the then Duke of York, who later became King James II
Daz Parker
2025-05-02 03:34:27 +0000 UTCYou had me at the thumbnail. Of course it is, thats why its Gods Own County π Loved your reaction to this guys, I think some of the chaps information is a bit dubious but that will only aide discourse on the comments wont it! (Loved Stephens Australia/Dundee bait, that'll get em biting π€£) He's off his tree a bit when he talks about Leeds. There is no river Lat running through Leeds and there never has been so it's certainly not named after that π€£. Its the river Aire and Leeds used to be called Leodis and Ledes by the Romans, and before that was just a small inconsequential part of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet.
Daz Parker
2025-05-02 03:31:27 +0000 UTCThanks! π Wore it for the haters π€£π€£ But our damn camera keeps flipping backwards and we donβt know it until after weβve already recorded, so thereβs a few videos we recorded back-to-back where itβs backwards.
Killermcknight
2025-05-01 22:16:51 +0000 UTCAlso, the bit about the Salisbury cathedral spire is a bit of a UK "in-joke" - the Russians suspected of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his wife claimed they were only in the UK to visit the "famous cathedral spire".
Craig Wilson
2025-05-01 22:05:22 +0000 UTCTaylor - that t-shirt is awesome! π
Craig Wilson
2025-05-01 21:51:06 +0000 UTC
