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pendy · 26-10-2006, 16:42

I thought everybody knew that it's always been Gobbinland above the library. I have heard an alternative explanation for the name, though, that it comes from "gobbin" as a way of talking or accent. Mind you, if you look across the road, Hyndburn explain the name "Oswaldtwistle" as "a fork of land between two streams" or something similar. Nothing like - It's Oswald's Twistla - i.e. the boundary of King Oswald of Northumbria's kingdom. Says a lot for local knowledge, dunnit.

26-10-2006, 16:42	#25
pendy Resting in peace Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: London/Oswaldtwistle Posts: 1,123 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 910	Re: Lovely And Northern I thought everybody knew that it's always been Gobbinland above the library. I have heard an alternative explanation for the name, though, that it comes from "gobbin" as a way of talking or accent. Mind you, if you look across the road, Hyndburn explain the name "Oswaldtwistle" as "a fork of land between two streams" or something similar. Nothing like - It's Oswald's Twistla - i.e. the boundary of King Oswald of Northumbria's kingdom. Says a lot for local knowledge, dunnit.