Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?

Taniwha420@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Old English was ‘den’. Place names ending in ‘den’ or ‘don’ were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.

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