Hallaton Bottle Kicking event took place Easter Monday and saw residents of the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne competing ...

Odd News // 9 hours ago English villages face off in 'bottle kicking' beer barrel contest April 22 (UPI) -- A pair of villages in Leicestershire, England, faced off in an unusual local sport known ...

The Saxons named the town Dornwaraceaster (the suffix - ceaster being the Old English name for a "Roman town"; cf. Exeter and Gloucester and Dornsæte came into use as the name for the inhabitants of ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...

People taking a quiet stroll through the mock Tudor streets in this town, stepping inside its bright red telephone boxes and wandering the cobbled streets looking for the nearest pub, could be ...