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I think Bank Plain in Norwich (formerly Redwell Street) was named after Gurney's Bank in the 19thC. Richard Richard Coates Bristol Centre for Linguistics University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY UK Projects: Survey of English Place-Names (BA/AHRC) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~aezins//survey/ Family Names of the United Kingdom (AHRC) t: 44 (0)1173 283278 e: [log in to unmask] w: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/pdf.aspx?page=1101 ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 21 July 2020 17:12 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [EPNL] Bank St, Newquay According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-53485139<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-england-cornwall-53485139&data=02%7C01%7CRichard.Coates%40UWE.AC.UK%7C9ae21ee2a0fb4b89cc4408d82d90e1e6%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C1%7C637309447572714069&sdata=DyNS5rkEQHvU7Eyf7Vu9AvegZiCMW0k01StnlnycdWA%3D&reserved=0>, "As financial firms flocked to it Newquay's Bank Street was born - but for the first time in more than 120 years there will soon be no banks left on it." Most Bank Streets are so named because they climb up a bank, and this one is steep too. Is it really named after financial firms? Keith ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jiscmail.ac.uk%2Fcgi-bin%2FWA-JISC.exe%3FSUBED1%3DEPNL%26A%3D1&data=02%7C01%7CRichard.Coates%40UWE.AC.UK%7C9ae21ee2a0fb4b89cc4408d82d90e1e6%7C07ef1208413c4b5e9cdd64ef305754f0%7C0%7C1%7C637309447572724065&sdata=75wU1Q1GX%2FlLAz2whP9xweuVmOzgLFumKtFlPyOjH%2Fw%3D&reserved=0> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EPNL, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/