UK Stations with Foreign Place Names

[D6130]

Reading the thread about the very serious incident which occurred recently at Belvedere station in South-East London, I was inspired to wonder how many other UK stations have similarly foreign language names. (Belvedere, in Italian, means 'beautiful view'....and Belle Vue in Manchester has the same meaning in French). Over to you for more examples:

 

[Pit_buzzer]

Waterloo

 

[Mag_seven]

Montpelier on the Severn Beach Line and Mount Florida on the Cathcart Circle immediately spring to mind.

Cyprus on the DLR if metros etc are allowed.

Canada Water

 

[AlterEgo]

Turkey Street!

 

[D6130]

Beaulieu Road, between Southampton and Bournemouth, is named after the nearby village which is home to the Montagu Motor Museum. Its name translates from French as "Beautiful place".

 

[Bald Rick]

Crick-le-wood

 

[zwk500]

I'm presuming any settlement with Norse etymology in Yorkshire/Lincolnshire doesn't count?

St Denys in Southampton is named for the St Denys Priory, dedicated to the Eponymous Bishop of Paris who also gave his name to what is now the Parisian Suburb containing a rather nice Basilica and the Stade De France.

 

[duncanp]

Scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but Tondu, near Bridgend in South Wales, is the past participle of the French verb Tondre, which means "To Mow" (the grass).

 

[urbophile]

Brunswick
Tooting Bec (after the Abbey of Bec in Normandy)

 

[zwk500]

Scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but Tondu, near Bridgend in South Wales, is the past participle of the French verb Tondre, which means "To Mow" (the grass).

But is it named for the french, or does it have a Welsh meaning that happens to have french cognate?

 

[D6130]

I'm presuming any settlement with Norse etymology in Yorkshire/Lincolnshire doesn't count?

Technically speaking no....but TBH I'm quite enjoying some of the clever and/or tongue-in-cheek responses received so far. I was really looking for actual foreign language names. It has occurred to me that Dormans, on the East Grinstead line, has the same name as a minor station on the Paris-Strasbourg classic main line in the Marne Valley. Not sure about the etymology though.

 

[zwk500]

Technically speaking no....but TBH I'm quite enjoying some of the clever and/or tongue-in-cheek responses received so far. I was really looking for actual foreign language names. It has occurred to me that Dormans, on the East Grinstead line, has the same name as a minor station on the Paris-Strasbourg classic main line in the Marne Valley. Not sure about the etymology though.

Given the legacy of the Norman conquest there are quite a few settlements (particularly in the home counties) with french roots to their names. Stretching the definition somewhat, but Milton Keynes, and therefore Milton Keynes Central (and the former Horsted Keynes, now on the Bluebell Railway) are named for the de Cahaignes family from Cahagnes, Calvados, who were given the land in both settlements in the aftermath of the Conquest.

 

[Bald Rick]

Bere Ferrers is Catalan for ‘His Blacksmiths’

Do I win £5?

 

[D6130]

Do I win £5?

No.....5 Eurocents - or the forged Catalan equivalent!

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Many French (often Norman French) words/names came across in 1066 and have been assimilated into English, much like Saxon and Norse words/names before them. They are not "foreign".
Two British royal mottos spring to mind: "Ich Dien" and "Dieu et mon Droit".
Montgomery in Powys is Trefaldwyn in Welsh, both names deriving from Roger de Montgomery, whose family name was Baldwyn (of Montgomery in Normandy).
Knutsford is named for the King of England/Denmark/Norway Knut/Cnut/Canute - there's a Knutby in Sweden.
There are many such links with Europe, and some going the other way.

There's a station on the Larkhall branch in Scotland called Chatelherault which had me foxed as it isn't Scottish.
It sounds French but not quite the same as the town of Chatellerault in Aquitaine.
But it turns out there is a link as the title Duc de Chatellerault was given by the French king to the Earl of Arran/Duke of Hamilton who used the name (modified a bit) on his estate.
Chatellerault in France is twinned with Hamilton in Scotland.

 

[D6130]

No longer a station - but still a junction - Portobello in the East end of Edinburgh.....'beautiful port' in both Italian and Spanish.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Have we had St. Helier or Chapel-en-le-Frith yet?

 

[WesternBiker]

Sadly closed now, but I always think Strata Florida was a lovely but most incongruous name to find on the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth line. It took its name from the nearby abbey of Strata Florida, apparently a Latinisation of the Welsh Ystrad Fflur, or "Valley of Flowers".

 

[geoffk]

Grosmont, Chester-le-Street, Belmont, Newton-le-Willows.

 

[Gloster]

There is a Roche in France and several Belmont in France and elsewhere. There is also Maryland.

 

[D6130]

Again, not a station as such, but Pouparts Junction in South-West London sounds rather French.

 

[daodao]

On the former Brecon and Merthyr line, there were platforms (halts) called Fleur de Lis and Waterloo.

 

[richard1976]

Maryland

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Maryland

Mentioned already upthread in post #20 by @Gloster.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Not sure if this counts, but Ulleskelf (at least partly). According to Wikipedia...

Its name comes from the Scandinavian personal name Úlfr, while skelf is an Old English term meaning "a flat area".

Always thought it sounded a bit exotic!

 

[zwk500]

Not sure if this counts, but Ulleskelf (at least partly). According to Wikipedia...

Always thought it sounded a bit exotic!

See Post #11. If we allowed that then Uckfield counts as Ucca was Saxon...

 

[Halish Railway]

Hainault

 

[KINSEY.]

Poulton-Le-Fylde

 

[unlevel42]

Bethesda, on the former branch from Bangor.

 

[Corner]

Ashby de la Zouch