Stapel and Staple in France and Engeland
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The 40 geografical names with stapel or staple in England and France as a rule relate to calm rural hamlets and villages where the living has been good within living memory, without the ambition to grow, yet moving with the times. Most count well below 2000 inhabitants and lie along country roads. They may have a village church and a website of their own, but only seaport towns Étaples and Barnstaple with 10 and 20 thousand inhabitants have an urban air with their town hall, museum, colleges and railway station. Extremes are Stapleton in Gloucestershire, once a Saxon hamlet with a Roman past but now a semi rural Bristol subburb with 23000 inhabitants and, uninhabited, Staple Island and Staple Plain shown below.
A similar description goes for ten Steeple named villages in central England, where Steeple Claydon with 2375 inhabitants is the largest.
Below are images of places named Staple or, if perhaps long ago, Stapel. Most are copied with thanks from Google Maps or Street View.
Staple or Stapel viewed from the south, on the language border in Nord, France.
Eastern approach road of Staple or Stapel, France. Bridge to the south of Étaples, crossing the tidal Canche estuary.
Town hall on the Place du Général De Gaulle in Étaples, Stapel by name more than a thousand years ago, when coinciding with the language border.
Northern approach road of Staple near Canterbury in Kent, England. St. James church in Staple, Kent, dating from Saxon times.
Staple Island, Northumberland is a National Nature Reserve of 7 ha andStaple Plain, Quantock Hills, Somerset lies behind these bronze age
was sometimes inhabited by a few monks or a lighthouse keeper. Theburial mounds on Beacon Hill. Perhaps the Saxons named it "Stapol"
island's name may come from its rockformation of "stapols" or pillars.when they still gathered on this plain with its wide strategic view.
With thanks to Kenny Wharton, www.panoramio.com/photo/46417176.Photo: courtesy Paul Blades, www.megalithic.co.uk.
Steeple Island too is an uninhabited nature reserve. This remotest Jason island of the Falklands measures 9 km2 and is dominated by a steeple ridge.
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The 40 geografical names with stapel or staple in England and France as a rule relate to calm rural hamlets and villages where the living has been good within living memory, without the ambition to grow, yet moving with the times. Most count well below 2000 inhabitants and lie along country roads. They may have a village church and a website of their own, but only seaport towns Étaples and Barnstaple with 10 and 20 thousand inhabitants have an urban air with their town hall, museum, colleges and railway station. Extremes are Stapleton in Gloucestershire, once a Saxon hamlet with a Roman past but now a semi rural Bristol subburb with 23000 inhabitants and, uninhabited, Staple Island and Staple Plain shown below.
A similar description goes for ten Steeple named villages in central England, where Steeple Claydon with 2375 inhabitants is the largest.
Below are images of places named Staple or, if perhaps long ago, Stapel. Most are copied with thanks from Google Maps or Street View.
Staple or Stapel viewed from the south, on the language border in Nord, France.
Eastern approach road of Staple or Stapel, France.
Bridge to the south of Étaples, crossing the tidal Canche estuary.Town hall on the Place du Général De Gaulle in Étaples, Stapel by name more than a thousand years ago, when coinciding with the language border.
Northern approach road of Staple near Canterbury in Kent, England.
St. James church in Staple, Kent, dating from Saxon times.
Staple Island, Northumberland is a National Nature Reserve of 7 ha and
Staple Plain, Quantock Hills, Somerset lies behind these bronze agewas sometimes inhabited by a few monks or a lighthouse keeper. The
burial mounds on Beacon Hill. Perhaps the Saxons named it "Stapol"island's name may come from its rockformation of "stapols" or pillars.
when they still gathered on this plain with its wide strategic view.With thanks to Kenny Wharton, www.panoramio.com/photo/46417176.
Photo: courtesy Paul Blades, www.megalithic.co.uk.Steeple Island too is an uninhabited nature reserve. This remotest Jason island of the Falklands measures 9 km2 and is dominated by a steeple ridge.