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Mike wrote:

Whelley Warrior wrote:Why this group has chose to call themselves Brigante's when in Roman times, their 'Kingdom' was what is now 'Yorkshire' is mystery to me.

Perhaps they should be made to live among the Yorkie's as a punishment!

Looks like their area of control also covered Lancashire and Wigan in particular too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigantes

Think this would have been a better link Mike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan

So that explains their disgusting behaviour!

Before the establishment of counties and boroughs to govern areas of the country, the land was divided into "Hundreds".

Old maps show that the "Brigantes Hundred" covered Wigan and Standish stretching North towards the "Lailand Hundred", and west towards the "West Derbie Hundred".

See:-http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environmen ... peedbw.gif

stevethegas wrote:Before the establishment of counties and boroughs to govern areas of the country, the land was divided into "Hundreds".

Old maps show that the "Brigantes Hundred" covered Wigan and Standish stretching North towards the "Lailand Hundred", and west towards the "West Derbie Hundred".

See:-http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environmen ... peedbw.gif

Fixed your link - Josie

Looks like we may have started a trend. Wonder how long before we get blamed for this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ead_module