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Mudge
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I'm doing research on the 20th Fighter Group, 79 Fighter Squadron. Based at
and here's the problem either King's Cliffe or Kingscliffe :?. I've seen it written both ways on some, seemingly, official websites and I want to have it correct.
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No need to bother the folks across the big pond Mudge, it's King's Cliffe.

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Yeah...you're right. It is about 0400 over there.
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I assume you've seen this already

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/H-K/Kings%20Cliffe.htm

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Locobuster wrote:
No need to bother the folks across the big pond Mudge, it's King's Cliffe.


Usually written as Kings Cliffe these days, ie. no apostrophe.

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I haven't seen it in person but I hope to someday. I do know the man who designed it, however. Here is the wooden model he commissioned when they were trying to raise the funds to erect the memorial.

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Just to confuse things a little more here's an original 1946 copy of King's Cliffe given to me by Jack Ilfrey back in 1999. :lol:

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If you want to get REALLY deep - try this, but turn your pop-up blocker off.

Key to English Place Names Home Page http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins ... toepn.html

Northamptonshire = http://cameron.english.nottingham.ac.uk ... county=NTP

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King's Cliffe Northamptonshire TL 00 97 (UK Map reference) 'Cliff'. It was a royal possession in 1086. The manor was held by the king at the time of the Norman Conquest. The village is on a hill slope above the Willow Brook.
OE (=Old English) cyning, OE clif


So, it was the Cliff belonging to the King, or the King's Cliff.

Those Pesky "e"s got into Olde Englishe all the time. :-)
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