..to protrude, peep out,peer, view. It's Middle English (1600's) from the OE, and thus leads to tut hills, "keep toot" and similar. Tuthill stairs in Newcastle. There are quite a few tut/tote place names nationally, look outs.
Guinevere's Guide to pronouncing Tow Law like a local. Tow rhymes with how. An interesting name. Law is a hill , Scottish & Northern. Tow is from toot/tote - an isolated conspicuous hill suitable as a look out. Tow Law is 1000ft up so it's certainly a look out place ! Toot means 🧵
There are undoubtedly more. Feel free to add !
June 18th. Waterloo 1815. Some things named for wars/battles/military persons etc.
Camperduin 11/10/1797. Camperdown, N Tyneside
Quatre Bras 16/6/1815, 2 days before W'loo - Quatre Bras, Hexham
Waterloo - the Blucher & Wellington pits at Throckley.
Battle of Vigo Bay 1702 - Vigo nr Birtley 🧵
My favourite. Battle of Arcot 14 Nov 1751. Clive of India leading the forces of the East India Company against the French. Arcot Hall, Cramlington.
Collingwood, Nelson & Trafalgar are a class apart when counting the number of places/things named after them.
Bomarsund Aug 1854 - Bomarsund nr. Bedlington
Quite a few places named Waterloo, e.g. one near Greenhead.
A Dunkirk nr Chollerford
Sebastopol (Crimean War) - there was (is?) a Sebastopol near Bantling Castle
Moscow in East Ayrshire as well, pronounced 'Moss Cow'. The stream running through the village is called the Volga Burn
One I made a while back
@andyeprr.bsky.social told meof :
Balaclava & Inkerman nr Tow Law, named as the Tow Law iron cannonballs used in the Crimea
Quebec named as it was enclosed in the same year as other one was liberated from the French.
The Dardanelles at Wheatley Hill ,old name for the pit streets behind Front St.
Barrowburn, Upper Coquetdale. A short walk on a lovely sunny morning.
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