Goodness! Are there any more confusingly pronounced place names in Mid-Northumberland?
Well I’m glad you asked – there’s the river Coquet which you say “Coke-It” and lots of places with names ending in “gham” which you pronounce as “Jum”. Whittingham, for example, is actually Whittinjum”. Then there are two villages about seven miles outside Alnwick, one called Edlingham and one called Eglingham – even the Northumbrians can’t be bothered to learn which is which.
