Talk:Brough and Shatton

"Gate" DOES NOT mean "road" in Northern English dialects
I'd like to address the erroneous statement within the article that gate means road in Northern English dialects... Many old northern towns, cities and even villages were walled communities, and exit/entrances were through gates in the wall. These gates were most often named after the major destination to which the exit node led to. I.E. if the gate in the wall was on the road to Bath, the gate would be called Bathgate; the road, itself eventually often took the name of the gate, so in this example, the road itself would come to be known as Bathgate (only extremely rarely indeed would the affixation "road" be added, creating the example name Bathgate Road) this however does NOT mean gate means road in norther dialects - the terms are simply not interchangeable, which would be the case if road were a northern word for gate. As a Northerner I find it insulting that someone has made this claim of gate meaning road in the North... it does not. Without objection I will delete or change it, as it is silly and uneducated nonsense. M R G WIKI999 (talk) 23:33, 11 April 2020 (UTC)