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Locutus is latin for 'to tell'.

(Also one of the Borg, but that's another story...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUHVuCNmXY

"Locutus" is not Latin for "to tell". "To tell" is an infinitive. "Locutus" is, if I remember correctly, a participle. The infinitive is, again IIRC, "loquere".

Resistance is futile!

http://everything2.com/title/Locutus

(I was really just making a play on words).

Point of interest for locutus (and apologies if I've already mentioned it before on this thread) but there is documentary evidence proving that Holy Cross Church originally had a very early dedication to St.Peter, not a celtic saint.

It's very tempting to look at the Landican place-name and make all kinds of possible associations with that name and the church at Woodchurch, but place-names on their own prove nothing. As early as 1250, Woodchurch was dedicated to St.Peter. And as far as I am aware that it the earliest recorded name for it.

This may come across as being a bit daft, but that's my problem.

The Doomesday Survey of 1086 does not mention Woodchurch, but a Priest in the township of Landican was mentioned. Although, as far as we know there has never been any evidence of a Church at Landican.The way I see it is.

As the river Fender runs through Landican, surely the township would have been close to the river and concentrated in that particular area at sometime preceeding the Doomesday Survey.Therefore, surely a Church would have been nearer the village where the inhabitants lived.

Yes, I would also love to re-write history as we know it!

"Locutus" is not correct Latin for "speaker"; that would be "locutor", as in interlocutor. "Locutus", as the perfect deponent participle of the deponent verb "loqui" (to speak), means "he having spoken" or "He who just spoke", and would properly be followed by a form of the verb "esse" (to be) when in the perfect tense.

I knew that NOT.

derekdwc have you tried google earth maps of the area on the Terrain view?

Graecum est; non potest legi... (or as I prefer to say, it's all "geek" to me!)

Is it the Fender that runs through Landican or the Prenton Brook?

xan's UE

Fender
The map below can be juggled about to see landranger map of the area of Landican.

This particular view is further up the road at Cross Hill, Thingwall. Where the Vikings held their Parlaiments. Can anyone see a rectangular shape in the field and what could it be?


http://www.linking-britain.net/town-landican,17031/

Blow , why won't it work properly? Help -anyone.

Can't see what you're referring to, but from the location, could be the Crosshill reservoir.

You can click on the thumbnail map on this link to show you the area you are describing granny.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/341584

On the corner of Barnston Road and Holmwood Drive.The resevoir is on the opposite side of Barnston Road. When zooming in on the satellite image it looks like a rectagular shape (quite large) beneath the surface of the earth. Geekus's view shows the correct location.

http://www.linking-britain.net/
seems to be very up to date.

Yes, I can see it now; some kind of fencing I think.
http://binged.it/wc3SrZ

Thingwall must be the same root as the Manx parliament; Tynwald.

From Wikipedia
"The name Tynwald, like the Icelandic Þingvellir, is derived from the Old Norse word Þingvǫllr meaning the meeting place of the assembly, the field of the thing."