Talk:sitch

In placenames:

• 1832, Henry D. Barton, The Law Journal Reports, volume 1, page 108:

  [...] the land below, through which the Sitch Dumble (the stream in question,) passes [...]

• 1844(?), The London Gazette, part 3, page 3211:

  […] on the west, [it is bounded] by the said river Trent, as far as where it is met at Norton-green by the brook or runnel called the Sitch-brook or Sitch-runnel, and then following the said brook or runnel in a north easterly direction […]

• 1912, Seth Evans, Bradwell, Ancient and Modern, page 75:

  […] brook in the Holmes; in 1818 and 1829 other bridges were constructed. In 1823 three bridges were built over the Sitch rivulet on the Hills.

The English Place-Name Society, volume 88, page 287, mentions various others.

• 1928, Word-lore, volume 3, page 12:

  Green Sitch Farm on the North Staffordshire border, [...] a lovely stretch of moorland known as Goldsitch Moss. [...] Felty Sitch and Snedley Sitch. [...] a "felty sich" is "a sich among rough felty grass." "Snedley Sitch," or the snead lea sich, seems to mean just the opposite to "felty sich," that is, a sich flowing through the smooth or cultivated ground, […]

Mentiony:

2005, S. E. Kelly, Charters of Malmesbury Abbey, page 283 (translating an earlier document): […] and from that place to the Avon, that is to the place which is called the sitch (sic, 'small stream'), and from that place straight along the Avon to the starting-point, that is, Dauntsey. - -sche (discuss) 00:54, 23 October 2024 (UTC)