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[dubdobdee]

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[dubdobdee]

Oswald is King Oswald of Northumbria (and inventor of Oswestry)

His great grandad was Ida of Bernicia, and Bamburgh is "Ida's Castle, huge and square"

(via google and wikipedia)

[sbp]

Inventor of whatnow?

[dubdobdee]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswestry#Saxon_times

[dubdobdee]

so current answers include alnwick, bamburgh, tynemouth -- which are all in NORTHUMBERLAND i think

[dubdobdee]

which means the bishop is likely to be BISHOP (also SAINT) CUTHBERT of LINDISFARNE, and the echinoderm fossils are CRINOIDS* aka "St Cuthbert's Beads"

*(also an MVP alien species in o/g who iirc)

[carsmilesteve]

Was thinking Musselburgh for 'minty bivalves' but it's too far north!

[jauntyalan]

I've found mention of using menthol to preserve seafood and snails…

[jauntyalan]

v is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltwhistle

The name Haltwhistle has nothing to do with a railway stop. Early forms of the name are Hautwesel (1240), Hautwysel (1254), Hawtewysill (1279), Hautwysell[3] (1381), Haltwesell (Speede 1610). The second part -twistle relates to two streams or rivers. It derives from two Old English words twicce or twise, 'twice', 'division into two' and wella, 'stream, brook'. The second word is reduced in the compound word to ull, making twicculla, twisella. All but one of the examples in place names represent a high tongue of land between two streams where they join.