The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.

The name may mean acorn farmstead from Anglo-Saxon æcern meaning acorn and tun meaning farmstead or village.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese, which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom.

The village of Kilmacolm in Renfrewshire is also derived from Columba's name.

Indeed, Cervantes deliberately omits the name of the village, giving an explanation in the final chapter:

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

* 1253: First known mention of the name " Gdynia ", as a Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) fishing village.

The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning " Pine District ", into Greenwich, a borough of London.

The studios generally used the name of Elstree ( the adjoining village ).

It was a political entity composed of villages, and each village was autonomous and independent with its own territory and name, each recognized by its neighbors.

The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.

Herod was succeeded in Judea by his son, Archelus, who built an adjacent village in his name, Archelais, to house workers for his date plantation ( Khirbet al-Beiyudat ).

The village has never been known as Goatmilkshire though the area north east of the village has always had that name or Gaitmilkshire.

Trotsky joined the Soviet under the name " Yanovsky " ( after the village he was born in, Yanovka ) and was elected vice-Chairman.

* Lajjun, Palestinian village whose name is derived from " Legion "

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.

It comes from heiðr = heathland, and býr = " yard " or " clearing / village / town ", thus " heath yard ", or " heath town ".

* The fifth surviving longbow comes from the armoury of the church in the village of Mendlesham in Suffolk, and is believed to date either from the period of Henry VIII or Queen Elizabeth I.

Galbasi comes from the name of the village Galabas.

Barghouti was born in the village of Kobar near Ramallah, and comes from the Barghouti clan, an extended family from Deir Ghassaneh.

First documented mention of Radom comes from the year 1155, in a bull of Pope Adrian IV ( villam iuxta Rado, que vocatur Zlauno, or a village near Radom, called Sławno ).

He comes upon Whaitiri, his blind grandmother, counting out twelve taro for her grandchildren, who are away at the village of Tama-i-waho.

Minto is an Athabascan Indian village located at the end of the Minto Spur Road, which comes off the Elliot Highway.

The name comes from Guadalcanal, a village in the province of Seville, in Andalusia, Spain, birthplace of Pedro de Ortega Valencia, a member of Mendaña's expedition.

The name " Iuka " comes from the name of one of the chieftains of the village.

The name of the village comes from that of the French officer and explorer of Ohio – Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville.

Most traffic from outside the area comes in via Route 208 from the south due to its exit on Interstate 84 about five miles ( 9 km ) south of the village, as well as its intersection with paralleling NY 17K at Scotts Corners three miles ( 5 km ) to the south.

The name comes from the barges used to ship products through the village.

The earliest documented evidence of a village at " Thornbyrig " comes at the end of the ninth century.

The name probably comes from the stream, " Laurel Creek " which flows through the village.

The village's name comes from the waterfall of the stream located in the village.

The Town of Steilacoom says it comes from the name of the Steilacoom tribe, especially their main village in the Tacoma area, located on Chambers Bay.

The name Tong comes from the Old English term tang meaning tong or fork and refers to the village ’ s position on a raised sliver of land between Ringshaw Beck and Cockersdale which converge at the eastern extreme of the manor.

At twelve noon work in the parish comes to a standstill and people start to make their way to Haxey village to gather and take part in the traditional ritual.

Much of the history of the village is dominated by Glastonbury Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and indeed its name comes from a 12th century causeway from Glastonbury which was built to transport local Blue Lias stone from what is now Street to rebuild the Abbey, although it had previously been known as Lantokay and Lega ( note: there is a quite different small hamlet called Street in Somerset, just north of the village of Holcombe, with which this article is not concerned ).

The name comes from the two brothers who founded the village.

NY 69 passes through the town of Mexico and comes to an end in the village, where it intersects with NY 104.

The name of the village comes from " Pee-wauk-ee-wee-nick ," meaning either " the dusty water " or " lake of shells " in Potawatomi.

The name of the denomination comes from the biblical description of Jesus Christ, who had been raised in the village of Nazareth ( and was regarded consequently as " a Nazarene ").

Its name comes from the small village where it is located in the town of Peschiera Borromeo.