East and West Rounton

<BODY>  <P><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Arial"> Welcome to the East and West Rountons website. </FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Arial">If you are reading this then your browser does not support frames.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">East Rounton is a model village near Northallerton in Yorkshire constructed for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, the ironmaster on his estate near Rounton Grange designed by Philip Webb. East Rounton church of St Lawrence contains a splendid Strachan window and another side window celebrating the life of the scholar, explorer, and arabist Gertrude Bell now popularly known as Queen of the Desert. The village hall designed by George Jack is at East Rounton and there is a War Memorial in front of it. West Rounton is about 1 mile away from East across the fields and has the church of St Oswald and two pubs, The Grey Horse and the Horse Shoe Inn. West Rounton also contains Whitehouse plant nurseries and is home to Stamfrey farm organic clotted cream. This website is maintained by East Rounton village hall committee as a service to local residents in the Rountons.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">The origins of the name Rounton and its spelling are open to some debate. One of the more fanciful explanations on GENUKI claims it is derived from the the Anglo-Saxon for prince: "The name has been variously written at different times Roughton, Wroughton, Rungeton, Rouncton, and Rounton as at present, and may possibly have some connection with the Saxon Rinc,a prince, though there are no traditions of its having been at any time a royal residence." However, I think that the East and West Rountons may have a twin in North and South Runcton (near King's Lynn) and the name derives from a particular type of bridge between the two places. </FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">This description taken from the <A HREF="http://www.runctonweb.co.uk/hist/early.html">Runcton</A> website: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place Names says that the first part of the name is from the Old English "hrung" meaning a rung or pole. This is likely to refer to a primitive bridge over marshy ground formed by placing poles close together at right angles to the direction of the road. Such bridges are still seen in Sweden today, where they are called "kavelbro". </FONT></P> <P ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT FACE="Arial">The next village hall event will be the <A HREF="events/events.htm">Ceilidh</A>17th February 2007at the village hall. Celtic dancing to live music (with caller) by Ceilidh band Steam Radio with pie and pea supper and licenced bar 7.30pm until midnight.</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><A HREF="events/events.htm">Events</A> in the Rountons</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">The Rountons <A HREF="festival/index.htm">Festival</A> 2005</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">East Rounton <A HREF="villagehall/index.htm">Village Hall</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><A HREF="blackswan/closure.htm">News</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><A HREF="links/index.htm">Links</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><A HREF="parish/index.htm">Parish Council</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial"><A HREF="info/info.htm">Living Guide</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial">Local 5 day <A HREF="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/yh/leeming_forecast_weather.html">weather forecast</A> (Leeming)</FONT></P> <P><FONT FACE="Arial" COLOR="#FFFFFF"><A HREF="http://www.mountgrace-gundogs.co.uk">.</A></FONT></P> </BODY>