The southernmost major village of Buckland, between the Brandywine and the Hedge as Buckland narrowed towards Haysend. It was reached by a road that ran southwards for some ten miles from the main settlement of the Bucklanders around Bucklebury and Buck Hill. The name 'Standelf' comes from the Old English for a stone quarry, implying that the village had grown up around such a quarry.
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It might be hard to avoid noticing the word 'Elf' in the name 'Standelf', but in fact the village's name has no connection with Elves at all. It comes from Old English stan delf, 'stone quarry' (or possibly 'cut from stone'); compare 'Dwarrowdelf' ('Dwarf-delving') the Mannish name for the great underground Dwarf-city of Khazad-dûm. |
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