Place names and their origins

Great Britain, a land of strange people and stranger place names. Already we’ve passed through the understandable Land’s End, Canon’s Town, Victoria, and Pool, while also taking in the harder to fathom Indian Queens, Gulval, Marazanvose, and Lanivet.

So why are our town names so vastly different in origin? Here’s the map men to explain (most pertinent part starts at 2:30):

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