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[edit] Meaning of the name Prudhoe

Today I removed from the main article the claim "Prudhoe means 'Proud Hill'" as this was not familiar to me so I did some research and found in The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names: ‘Hill-spur of a man called *Prda’.

I've not included this in the article as I'm unsure if there are other theories. If anyone has further references, please add them.

Thanks

--BlueSunset 19:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nicholas Nicholson

I'm unsure any of this is true. Please find me a link (not the one to the Wikipedia article!) about this person.

sorry. there is infomation on the castle there. but i canot seem to add it without creatring a huge box. i hope someone puts it in sorry. Nortumberland-Boy

[edit] Prudhoe and geographically related articles

This area of Britain is at a disadvantage on Wikipedia, for the low population density also means there will probably be very, very few wikipedians to add to and maintain local interest articles -which are of interest to the thousands that pass through the area.

Since the lack of local wikipedians makes it very unlikely that anyone will expand the Prudhoe Mill article, might I suggest the text and photographs are added to this article and so improve this one. See: Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages

The Prudhoe Mill has also, attracted a proposal to have the article deleted (which I intend to challenge -especially as at this time of year with so many wikipedians on vacation). The 'first' template was in my view the wrong one and should have been the {{local}} template -which is what I shall replace them all with.

The castle is (no doubt) more worthy as separate article; especially as it also serves in some way to complete the list of castles, but of course, it still badly needs expanding.

There are photographs of Prudhole area on creative Commons Licences, so can also be uploaded to Wikipedia by anyone wishing to do so. Geograph British Isles--Aspro 14:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)