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What's in a name? Answer: history

11th June 1983, Page 30
11th June 1983
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Page 30, 11th June 1983 — What's in a name? Answer: history
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THE OLD RAILWAY practice of naming locomotives is spreading to buses, as I have already noted. London Country Bus Services is introducing a cultural element into it by launching a competition for school projects to find names b' digging up local history.

Staff have already found four Preston Hawe was once a thriving farming community between Burgh Heath and Tadworth, and then a "lost" Surrey village which was rediscovered by the London County Council for a huge overspill estate. A bus now bears its name.

Wolcnestede, a Saxon settlement later called Walkinstead and new God stone is also commemorated. It was a place where cloth was trampled in vats, like grapes, probably to thicken it with fuller's earth.

Henry Wicker, who in 1618 gave Epsom salts to posterity, provides another name. Cattle refused to drink the stuff but people have lapped it up ever since. Wicker's 17th century world was rather smaller than his present-day namesake's but he made history in it.

The fourth nom de bus, William Warenne, originated from a family who came to Britain with William the Conqueror. The Second Earl of that title built Reigate Castle in the late 11th century. In 1911 Reigate also became the bestial of the old East Surrey Traction Co, from which LCBS emerged.

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Organisations: London County Council
Locations: Surrey

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