Talk:Lundwood

History section: I am not convinced by the "wud" part of the etymology for the reason that there is no such Icelandic word, indeed the letter W does not exist in the language! The Lundr part is quite correct and it is, as the section gives, a sacred wood or grove. The Wood is simply an Anglicization of the word producing in effect a tautology, of Wood wood; tautologies derived from two languages in place-names and feature names are surprisingly common - take River Avon as a prime example, meaning river river (English/Welsh). In reality the place known as Lundwood was indeed a large wooded area that still bounded the border with Cudworth all the way to the River Dearne even in the nineteenth century.Moonraker55 (talk) 23:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC) I intend to add a section about the development of Lundwood as it became and will change the entry about the etymology at the same time.Moonraker55 (talk) 23:57, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Moonraker55 (talk), I would concur about the Icelandic name. You state "and neither did the road through Beaver's Hole", as a local I must say that I've never heard of the name before, looking at this Ordnance Survey map from 1841, I don't see it either, could you clarify the location? kow (talk) 19:18, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Kowtoo(talk) Beaver's Hole has undergone some spelling changes but is still in use. The first Act of Parliament that gave responsibility for the Barnsley to Pontefract road, 1825 had the preamble "An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Town of Barnsley, by way of Beaver Hole to Cudworth Bridge". The reference is to the topographical dip between what is now known as Oakwell and Cundy Cross. You will find a side road called Beevor Court and another Beevor Street, a change of spelling but almost certainly a reference. The road past beaver's Hole was a new road, in the same way that the Pontefract Road through Lundwood was a new road. The name may refer to a person who owned land there, I have not done the research, but I would expect it to refer to the animals. The name appears on quite ancient maps including those produced by the likes of Jeffreys in the eighteenth century, who called it Beaver Hole. I would expect it to have been a surviving name from the mediaeval period before Beavers were eradicated in England, the river at that point was probably wider, slower and eminently dammable before the conquest. There are other examples of animal related names locally, not least Wooley, whose etymology derives from Wolves' Wood. There was a family who owned land in Cudworth in the fourteenth and fifteeth centuries who came from Wooley, they were known by the name of de Wolvelay (which was how Wooley was then spelled). It too reflected the natural history of the region. I too am reasonably local, I live in Cudworth!Moonraker55 (talk) 00:18, 30 August 2012 (UTC) I have just been and looked at my OS maps dating back to 1854. Beevor Hall Bleach grounds filled the entire bank of the river Dearne on the Barnsley side north of the Turnpike road. On the later maps I find Beevor Hall Bridge, across the Dearne and Dove canal by Hoyle Mill. Beevor Works was the name given to the buidlings on the roadside at the Oakwell Brewery site, and by the western entrance stood Beevor Ville. What a shame all those water features have been lost from the landscape. Incidentally, do you happen to know what happened to the Almshouses on Grange Lane. They must have stood roughly where the gypsy encampment now is.Moonraker55 (talk) 00:39, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

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There seems to be some confusion of fact with heresay. The article seems to suggest that the priest at St Mary Magdalene ws fed up with Anglican politics. This is mere heresay and gossip unless substantiated by either written evidence or can be quoted from a source of record. In any case I am unconvinced that the personal feelings of someone who is a functionary in an organisation tells us very much about Lundwood, which ought to be the purpose of the page. Moonraker55 (talk) 19:17, 12 February 2013 (UTC)