Tom Forsyth on Nostr: TIL Newcastle is named after the "new castle upon the Tyne" built in 1080. There's ...
TIL Newcastle is named after the "new castle upon the Tyne" built in 1080. There's nothing left of it because 100 years later they knocked it down and built an even newer new castle. New-fangled modern rubbish.
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