Talk:Cribbs Causeway

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Tom Cribb[edit]

I have a vague memory, probably based on a newspaper article that isn't online, that Cribbs Causeway gets its name from Tom Cribb, the Hanham-born bare-knuckle boxing champion - the idea being that it (the road from Henbury towards Over, that is) was on his training route. How much truth there is in any of that, I don't know, and I can't find any confirmation online. --rbrwr ^± 22:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Street Names of Bristol - Their Meanings and Origins (vol 1) by Veronica Smith has this to say on Cribb's Causeway:

Legend has it that the place owed its name to Tom Cribb, the fabled bare-fist fighter, but that was quashed by the discovery that the name had appeared on a map four years before the boxer was born. The name Crybe could have been a personal name - Crybe's dwelling - or it could have derrived from Crib - a manager or hovel. Thryduulf 01:22, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Good work. --rbrwr ^± 15:16, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Merge proposal[edit]

If you remove the parts of The Mall, Cribbs Causeway that duplicate this article then there is actually very little extra information. Some of that, for example the car parking, could (and imho probably should) be expanded to cover the car parking for all of Cribbs Causeway. Thryduulf (talk) 12:49, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I could do some work expanding this article, and merging them. Mark999 13:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Well done for your work merging The Mall and bus station articles (I hadn't spotted the existence of the latter). Thryduulf (talk) 21:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, I'd created The mall, Cribbs Causeway article, so only fair, I merge it back into this article Mark999

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