Talk:Wallyford

= Some questions = SandJ-on-WP (talk) 13:32, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) How is the name pronounced?  Like 'wolly' to rhyme with 'Molly', or long 'a' 'warl-ee' to rhyme with 'poorly' or short-a 'wall-ee' to rhyme with 'dally'?
 * 2) Where does the name originate?  Might it mean 'great ford'?
 * 3) Who named it 'Wallyford'?  When?  Why?
 * 4) What is the ford in the name crossing?  I can't see any rivers there on a map.
 * 5) What is the earliest reference to the place?
 * 6) How old the earliest known settlements in that location?
 * 7) How old is the oldest remaining building?
 * 8) Were the coal-miners the very first people to live here, or did they move into an existing settlement?  (Elsewhere - in England and Wales - I know coal-miners walked great distances each day to get to mines until they were well-established.)
 * 9) Any reference to other settlements in the same location in old texts?
 * 10) One could add transport links.  There's a bus to Wallyford seems to pass my window every few minutes, and I want to the what, where, why and when of Wallyford!  (I suppose I ought to get on that bus one day...)
 * 11) It's on the East Coast Main Line; what do we know about the building of the station and its impact?
 * 12) The A1 appears to be going slightly around it; was the A1 avoiding marshy ground or something (hence the need for a ford)?
 * 13) Earliest references on Ordnance Survey maps?  Old county maps?
 * 14) Historic land owner(s)
 * 15) Any archaeological evidence of interest?