Swordfish7
Well-Known Member
mancunial said:bloody hell shafter you missed dukinfield, the famous dukinfield named after the roundhead colonel robert dukinfield who was ordered by cromwell to capture the isle of mann from the cavaliers, his reward the boro of dukinfield what a shithouse trick that was by cromwell, no wonder they dug him up and hung him? see we have more history than the scousers?
Actually the Duckenfieilds (De Dokenfeld at the time) took their name from the town.