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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: LONDON-D Digest V00 #624
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:46:06 +0100
In-Reply-To: <28588-38F38E4A-11764@storefull-238.iap.bryant.webtv.net>



>I noticed a post about an orphanage on Gypsy Hill, and wondered if
>anyone out there might happen to know how Gypsy, or Gypsey, Hill came by
>its name.
There were a number of 'rural' sites round London where gypsies pitched
regularly - most of the Commons, any semi-clear site handy to
habitations, all gradually eroded by development of new housing estates
- so the sites would be different at different times. Gypsy Hill when
built over became a very respectable area for City clerks.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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