Was There Once Holy Tree Here? ; This Week Gerry Brooke Visits the Old Somerset Coal Mining Villages of Hallatrow and High Littleton
Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › June 15, 2010
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I wonder if, like me, you are intrigued by the name Hallatrow and wonder what on earth it means? Well, the 11th century Domesday book scribes called it Helgetreu which, in Saxon, means 'holy tree'.
Was there once, then, an ancient ash, or possibly a gnarled hawthorn, revered by superstitious people here? Now lost to history, it's very possible.See the full content of this document
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Was There Once Holy Tree Here? ; This Week Gerry Brooke Visits the Old Somerset Coal Mining Villages of Hallatrow and High Littleton
Nearby High Littleton, apparently, derives from yet another Saxon word meaning 'little enclosure'.
Both places were lat...See the full content of this document
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