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To: ops33
Since you asked: "Maidenhead's name, strictly speaking, refers to the busy riverside area where the 'New wharf' or 'Maiden Hythe' was built, perhaps as early as Saxon times."

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9 posted on 03/27/2011 3:34:11 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

Thanks for the info, I just thought it was one of the more unusual British place names.


11 posted on 03/27/2011 5:04:58 PM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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