The A to Z of Adelaide suburbs...

[Tamara (Homes Down Under)]

I was looking for some info about Adelaide railway station and came across this!

 

It's quite interesting....

 

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/the-az-story-of-the-history-behind-adelaide8217s-suburbs/story-fni6uo1m-1226734957557

[sidestep]

I rarely give out "likes". You just got one though. Great find

[Diane]

Interesting article although i do question the depth of their research a little. Athelstone for example was named by someone who hailed from Helston in Cornwall (hence At Helston) and one of the parks there was named by a Lord Petre, who also did the same for a park near his estate in Essex - Thorndon Park. Funnily enough I grew up not far from Thorndon Park in Brentwood, and now live not far from Thorndon Park in Athelstone.

[DougM]

Great find Tamara. Some very interesting reading there.

 

Now here's a coincidence. My surname, Mansfield, means 'a breast shaped hill'. Possibly spelt Mamsfield originally as in mammary. My 93yo mother now lives in Port Noarlunga meaning 'the place with a hill'. Quite fitting that she was drawn back to the hill.

[jim and adel]

Great find Tamara. Some very interesting reading there.

 

Now here's a coincidence. My surname, Mansfield, means 'a breast shaped hill'. Possibly spelt Mamsfield originally as in mammary. My 93yo mother now lives in Port Noarlunga meaning 'the place with a hill'. Quite fitting that she was drawn back to the hill.

 

Mansfield it far more likely to have originally meant a round field or pasture (breast shape, as you say) rather than a hill. 'Field' was never a typical word to describe a hill.

[jim and adel]

Although, thinking about it, it might well have been a breast-like hill in the middle of a field! So, you're probably right!

[DougM]

Although, thinking about it, it might well have been a breast-like hill in the middle of a field! So, you're probably right!

 

With all the research I've done, I know I am.

[jim and adel]

With all the research I've done, I know I am.

 

I wouldn't get too cocky - if you'd described it well enough in the first place, I wouldn't have called it out.

[flossybeth]

Not massively imaginative back then though were they?

[DougM]

Not massively imaginative back then though were they?

 

But then, life was so simple compared to today.

 

FWIW, my mothers maiden name was Brealey which also meant ' a hedged field' or similar.