RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 15, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15, 2020 On 20/03/2020 at 12:28, runs as required said: talking of that L&Y top right hand corner of Lancashire [Nelson]: Rose Grove always sounded so sweet smelling - as optimistic sounding a place name as Greenland (supposedly named by Viking explorers after an earlier bunch had got a rollicking back home in Danemark for naming Iceland - the island not the shop) Greenland was supposedly so named to entice settlers to somewhere that has liitle in the way of green. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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