The “ham” suffix means farm or homestead. The Sandring part is a corruption of Sant Dersingham, with Dersing having been someone’s name. So the place was literally called “the sandy part of dersing’s farm” a thousand years ago and it got mangled with time.
why do british areas sound like they’re named after Tamil Nadu
The “ham” suffix means farm or homestead. The Sandring part is a corruption of Sant Dersingham, with Dersing having been someone’s name. So the place was literally called “the sandy part of dersing’s farm” a thousand years ago and it got mangled with time.
Interesting how that’s similar both Dravidian and Vietnamese(?) naming suffixes (Nagapattinam, Vietnam, etc)
Because the Tamil Nadu areas are named after their colonial counterparts 😂.