Talk:Oldswinford

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[edit] Origin of name

Some one changed the identification of swine ford to the river crossing of a very small brook in Brook Road. This is a case of WP:OR. This could not have given rise to the name Kingswinford. Oldswinford is the name of the ancient parish which included Stourbridge and Amblecote, and thus includes the ford on what is probably an Anglo-Saxon road from Gloucester and Worcester to Wolverhampton, Stafford, and the northwest. That was an important road. If some one wants to assert that the whole parish takes its name the place where it was necessary to paddle through (or jump) a small brook, evidence needs to be quoted, preferably initially here, rather than by altering the article. Peterkingiron 22:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)