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( , Wed 29 Nov 2006, 16:33)
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with the word 'Carr' in it is asking for trouble. They are always new builds and nobody seems to stop to think "why has nobody ever built on here before?". For example, in June 2007 the newly built area in Hull called Kingswood was knacker-deep after all the rain.
Seeing that the word Carr is the old Norse worse for swampy fenland. The same goes for anything with "Holme" in it.
( , Fri 19 Nov 2010, 16:49, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

And Slough also means 'miry place', or 'bog' or toilet (bathroom, American cousins).
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