Editing Nottingham (section)

==Etymology==
Different conjectures have been devised to the reasons to why Nottingham has the name it has. Firstly a community existed in what is now Nottingham's city centre before the [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain]]. This community was recorded under the name ''Tigguo Cobauc'' ([[British language (Celtic)|Brythonic]]: {{lang|cel|Tig Guocobauc}}) by the ninth century cleric [[Asser]], in his work ''The Life of King Alfred''. This original name survives as {{lang|cy|Y Tŷ Ogofog}}, the [[Welsh language|modern Welsh]] name for Nottingham,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guest |first1=Edwin |title=Origines Celticae (a Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain (Volume 1) |date=1883 |publisher=Macmillan & Company |page=360 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LQxAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Nottingham%22+%22Ogof%22&pg=PA360 |access-date=21 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fsd.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/1105/TBTWelsh.pdf |trans-title=Travel by Train |language=cy |title=Teithio ar y Trên |access-date=13 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816192959/http://fsd.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/1105/TBTWelsh.pdf |archive-date=16 August 2011}}</ref> and in English as the ''[[City of Caves]]''.

Nottingham used to be known by the [[Anglo-Saxon|Anglo Saxon’s]] as being Snotingham. The ‘ham’ is akin to the word ‘home’. This suggests that people who came to this country 
were to colonise and make themselves a home. It’s therefore not unlikely that Snotingham was the home of an Anglican family named Snot who made Snotingham their home. <ref>H H Swinnerton| Cambridge County Geographies: Nottinghamshire|(1910|retrieved on 30 April 2025</ref> The [[Normans]] gave Nottingham the name we know today.<ref> A Mee|The Kings England, Nottinghamshire, The Midland Stronghold|1938|retrieved on 30 April 2025</ref> However, some authors derive ''Nottingham'' from Snottenga (caves) and ham (homestead) but "this has nothing to do with the English form".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire: Their Origin and Development |last=Mutschmann |first=Heinrich |orig-year=1902 |year=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107665415 |pages=100–101}}</ref>