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Originally Posted by susie123
It seems we are all wrong - despite the k, for which many thanks Dianne.
Cobbles are technically the rounded pebbles which are so difficlt to walk on. Everything else like we have in Lancs, Bruges and elsewhere are setts - and not the badger kind.
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I think the term cobbles got moved over to rounded pebbles when they became fashionable, but cobbles have always been the name we gave to the granite and sandstone sets that were laid as road material.
And the term cobblers was a derivitive from the term cobbles. It has its base in the solid rubber tyres of bycycles, and the men going downhill at speed on their way to work on a cobbled road, and damaging the male anatomy.
I almost beleive it myself.