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On Dec 6, 6:50*pm, "tim...." wrote:

wrote:

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish themselves
from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming the station.

OT1H my 1964 ER TT shows the station as Stansted.

OTOH my 1950 AA Book of the Road quite clearly shows the village name as
"Stansted Mountfitchet"

What does Domesday say?

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On Dec 7, 12:56*am, Mizter T wrote:

On Dec 6, 6:50*pm, "tim...." wrote:

wrote:

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish themselves
from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming the station.

Network Card on Standsted Express?
 

In message
,
Mizter T writes

On Dec 6, 6:50*pm, "tim...." wrote:

wrote:

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish themselves
from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming the station.

OT1H my 1964 ER TT shows the station as Stansted.

OTOH my 1950 AA Book of the Road quite clearly shows the village name as
"Stansted Mountfitchet"

What does Domesday say?

Stanesteda

The local baron (the Duke of Boulogne) didn't change the family name
from Gernon to de Montfitchet until a few years after the Domesday
survey. (Thanks for not spelling it Doomsday :)
--
Paul Terry

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On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Ken Wheatley wrote:

On 2010-12-05 21:32:40 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2010\12\04 22:01, Neil Williams wrote:
On Dec 4, 3:34 pm, Basil wrote:

No, Stansted Airport has an owner, and they own its spelling, unlike
the English language which we all own.

Stansted Airport is an airport located near a village called Stansted
(Mountfitchet), with that spelling. Arguably the people who live
there get to define what the village is called, and the airport's name
derives from that...

The fact that the airport is not called Stansted Mountfitchet
Airport completely undermines your argument.

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish
themselves from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming
the station.

Well, as I said earlier, the Mountfitchet bit was definitely there in
1611. I've lived near the village since '79

Crumbs. That is as long time.

tom

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On 2010-12-07 20:59:32 +0000, Tom Anderson said:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Ken Wheatley wrote:

On 2010-12-05 21:32:40 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2010\12\04 22:01, Neil Williams wrote:
On Dec 4, 3:34 pm, Basil wrote:

No, Stansted Airport has an owner, and they own its spelling, unlike
the English language which we all own.

Stansted Airport is an airport located near a village called Stansted
(Mountfitchet), with that spelling. Arguably the people who live
there get to define what the village is called, and the airport's name
derives from that...

The fact that the airport is not called Stansted Mountfitchet
Airport completely undermines your argument.

The village (small town really) was always called Stansted until the
airport got big enough for the residents to want to distinguish
themselves from it for various reasons. That included, ISTR, renaming
the station.

Well, as I said earlier, the Mountfitchet bit was definitely there in
1611. I've lived near the village since '79

Crumbs. That is as long time.

tom

:-) I did have a parenthised 19 in the latter date but decided it
looked ugly You have shown that it was necessary.