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. Iโm 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 ๐ 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 ๐คฃ) 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 ๐คฃ. 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! ๐ Wore it for the haters ๐คฃ๐คฃ But our damn camera keeps flipping backwards and we donโt know it until after weโve already recorded, so thereโs a few videos we recorded back-to-back where itโs 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! ๐
Craig Wilson
2025-05-01 21:51:06 +0000 UTC
