Californian Reacts -- How Did The Counties of England Get Their Names?

Going through every county in England and explaining the background of each county name. Each county shown looks so beautiful and unique. Over the very long history of England, you can see how so many different nations from the past influenced different counties across England from their culture, architecture, food, and yes, county names!

For fun, I added a list of some of the 'most difficult' place names in the United Kingdom:
- Frome, Somerset, England
- Ballachulish, Highland, Scotland
- Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, England
- Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Woolfardisworthy, Devon, England
- Beaulieu, Hampshire, England
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
- Ynysybwl, Cwm Clydach, RCT, Wales
- Rampisham, Dorset, England
- Quernmore, Lancashire, England

What do you think?

#EnglishCounties #CountyNames #Britain

[californianreacts]

Apologies for the longer video! I generally try to keep them under 15 minutes.

That being said, lets dive into it! I found this video of how the Counties of England get their names much more informative than I thought it would be. The photos are beautiful of the counties, and the history behind the names are intriguing and full of history which I love! The diversity between the counties from how the cities look, their cultures what influenced them in the past, food, and the names of the counties blew me away.


Which county are you from? Or is your favorite?

[BeckyPoleninja]

How does an English narrator say Derr-by...it is Dar-by

[tonypotts]

Oh dear, this narrator doesn't know how to pronounce Berkshire, Derby or Tyne and Wear, and he should.

[michael_]

To be fair, his mispronunciations as a whole aren't too bad. But mispronouncing derbyshire like that was EGREGIOUS







J.k - But it is a classic mistake

[bobbralee]

England has so much history and has made such an impact on the world, for such a small country it really is a special place.

[iankinver]

By his pronunciation of certain places, I have doubts as to whether he he is actually a native English person. Derby (Darby) Berkshire (BARKshire) Tyne & Wear (Tyne & WEER). Also, Kent is named after the Kanti, the iron age tribe who lived there. Good reaction mate.

[smilieevie]

The narrator has a weird accent for a Sussex boy… so he pronounced some of the names (and some of his words) strangely to my Southern ear…!

[krissie]

If you haven't seen it Map man why is it so difficult to pronounce British place names tells you alot about Britain and is funny

[stevefrost]

Warwick University is not in the town of Warwick as the narrator says, it's in the city of Coventry, which is a few miles north of Warwick.

[angelavara]

I live in Wolverhampton and it is a bit boring, the guy narrating needs to speak properly

[JohnSmith-kieq]

The guy in the video has an odd accent

[sandramorris]

Place names will sound different depending on where you're from in the UK, not sure where the narrator is from I can't place his accent, I'm from York in Yorkshire and we'd never say Shire how he says it, it's Yorksher without sounding the R at the end. York is a wonderful place, steeped in history. The Romans called it Eboracum, then the Vikings called it Jorvik, pronounced Yorvik which is the closest to the name today. Wonderful place to visit if you're into history.

[Soruk]

The video mispronounced Berkshire, it is indeed "Barkshire" - and when "shire" isn't standalone, it's pronounced more like "shuh", so "Barkshuh" and "Hampshuh". (Disclaimer: For my sins, I live in Basingstoke, Hampshire.) And he totally mucked up Derby and Derbyshire, which you correctly hinted at the start of your video uses the "Darby" pronunciation. Tyne and Wear - pronounced "Weir".

[Steffycolours]

You might probably be interested in a video by jay foreman or map men, about the most difficult place name in england

[eamonquinn]

There is no shire, it is usually sher, Berkshire is pronounced Barksher

[DrDaveW]

The Cornish language is not spoken any more, but it has been documented and you can learn it. In that sense it is different to Welsh, but linguistically, being a Celtic language it’s similar.

The only road signs with Cornish names are village and town signs that also have the original Cornish name.

In case you haven’t realised - I live in Cornwall.

[angelavara]

any name that ends in shire is pronounced sheer or sher.

[michael_]

I like to collect a flag of each county I've been to. So far I've got a Kent flag (where I live) Norfolk, Berkshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, and a gloucestershire flag, where my brother lives 😊 / Cornwall was definitely the most unique county i have visited so far.
I think Cornwall is recognised as one of the six nations with Celtic origins (the others being Ireland, Scotland, isle of man, Wales, and Brittany in France.
And you can see it's influence on the landscape and culture there. It was like stepping back in time when I went to Cornwall, it was awesome. I got to see ancient burial cairns and ancient henges which were thousands of years old, even older than the pyramids of Giza. It was really quite breathtaking. And made me wonder just how did these ancient people live and build these things?!
When i was there, EVERYTHING from the GRASS, the PLANTS, the SOIL and ROCKS, it felt like a different geography. I live on the opposite coast i guess you could say, In Kent

[arkELF]

CGP Grey has a great video about the secret city of London if you want to check that out.

[newuk]

Once again I feel the need to point at the error at 13:00 . Warwick Uni is in Coventry, not Warwick