Talk:Prudhoe

Meaning of the name Prudhoe

Today I removed from the main article the claim "Prudhoe means 'Proud Hill'" as this was not familiar to me so I did some research and found in The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names: ‘Hill-spur of a man called *Prda’.

I've not included this in the article as I'm unsure if there are other theories. If anyone has further references, please add them.

Thanks

--BlueSunset 19:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

As far as I am aware Prudhoe means Proud Hill from the Saxon, and i seem to remember to have read this in various places (Prudhoe Castle, School, from family). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kieraen (talk • contribs) 00:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I came here from looking into the French surname Prudhomme which means wise or sensible man. Prudhoe in Northumberland is located near several Norman influenced place names that use the "le" article in place of "the" Zizznips (talk) 04:34, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Nicholas Nicholson

I'm unsure any of this is true. Please find me a link (not the one to the Wikipedia article!) about this person.

sorry. there is infomation on the castle there. but i canot seem to add it without creatring a huge box. i hope someone puts it in sorry. Nortumberland-Boy

Prudhoe and geographically related articles

This area of Britain is at a disadvantage on Wikipedia, for the low population density also means there will probably be very, very few wikipedians to add to and maintain local interest articles -which are of interest to the thousands that pass through the area.

Since the lack of local wikipedians makes it very unlikely that anyone will expand the Prudhoe Mill article, might I suggest the text and photographs are added to this article and so improve this one. See: Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages

The Prudhoe Mill has also, attracted a proposal to have the article deleted (which I intend to challenge -especially as at this time of year with so many wikipedians on vacation). The 'first' template was in my view the wrong one and should have been the {{local}} template -which is what I shall replace them all with.

The castle is (no doubt) more worthy as separate article; especially as it also serves in some way to complete the list of castles, but of course, it still badly needs expanding.

There are photographs of Prudhole area on creative Commons Licences, so can also be uploaded to Wikipedia by anyone wishing to do so. Geograph British Isles--Aspro 14:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Town's Pronunciation

'Pruddah' is local pronunciation of the name, and not as far as I am aware the official pronunciation, which is (as it is spelt) Prude-hoe. I am just starting on Wikipedia, and am unure if this should be included in the article, so please can someone clarify. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kieraen (talk • contribs) 00:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

There is no such thing as an official pronunciation, from a linguistic point of view. There can be different ways of pronouncing things in prestige accents, but this is a social rather than purely linguistic consideration and the idea that one is more correct or official than the other ultimately comes down to snobbery, conscious or otherwise. People who compile pronunciation dictionaries and who therefore might be thought of as authorities on 'official' pronunciations do so by finding out how people who know places pronounce their names. If someone not familiar with a place decides to pronounce its name in a way that they feel better reflects the spelling then they have made a false assumption and got language the wrong way round (place names were spoken long before anyone wrote them down). Whenever I have heard it, Prudhoe has been pronounced (broadly) /'pɹʊdə/, and it seems that local sources agree: you and the two websites I've cited in the article. The only question then, is whether there does exist a significant number of people familiar with the place (i.e. local or with sufficient local connections to have picked up an authentic pronunciation) who pronounce it /ˈpɹuːdhoʊ/ or similar, or if this is restricted to people unfamiliar with the town who are making a perfectly reasonable but mistaken stab at it based on the way they've seen it written. Old Man of Storr (talk) 23:44, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes i come from Ovingham which of course is just over Ovingham Bridge from Prudhoe and we pronounce it as "Pruda" which also is the way all my friends and family from the area (including Prudhoe itself) pronounce it. User:Glaramara12 15:01, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for Deletion (of Prudhoe Mill)

See talk on Talk:Prudhoe Mill. I agree with the proposal. The page (Prudhoe Mill) is not really justified; it says very little; and the presentation is poor. The site does need to be mentioned in 'Prudhoe'; which it is, and the page serves no useful purpose. Twiceuponatime (talk) 15:26, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

If it is not notable enough for even the locals to expand ( there has now been time a plenty I think) then we might as well consider it not notable enough to keep. --Aspro (talk) 16:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Prudhoe Badger?

There isn't anything in the article relating to the Prudhoe Badger, which I would classify as a landmark (though I didn't take geography). It is an artwork made out of (I think) gravel and bark, etc.. but I couldn't say for certain exactly what materials having never actually walked up that hill to investigate it. Not sure what references may be required as i'm new to this Wiki stuff, but theres some info here http://www.debbygary.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=93 , and i'll look for some more specific info if need be. Do you reckon it would be worth adding to the article? Regards Agalvayne (talk) 22:15, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it qualifies as a 'landmark', but certainly needs to be mentioned in the section about the road. I will add something this week - and thanks for finding the reference. Twiceuponatime (talk) 09:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done Badger added at Transport/Road Twiceuponatime (talk) 13:20, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

History

I think there should be more information on the history of Prudhoe. I aslo think that there should be major expansion work to this article. It seams to me that depite the town being important to the long area, there is little information about the town. Sco1996 | I will respond. 09:57, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah i agree, there should be a bit about the History, possibly a reasonably sized section about Prudhoe's History Glaramara12 22:21, 26 April (UTC)

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