An English village has been voted one of the best places to live in the UK – despite its name being notoriously hard to pronounce. The village of Beaulieu (pronounced bew-ley), in the New Forest, was ...
Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...