The Blackpool Herald. — 1875-09-03 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

CORRESPONDENCE.  MORECAMBE (MORE COME.) TO. THE EDITOR..  SIR,—I have been luxuriating down here for some time, and find it a charming- sea-side resort, but like other Lancashire bathing places its sources of entertainment are few and soon exhausted, and some way of killing time (perhaps the most reprehensible phase of murder) has to be discovered. Ileysharn is an ancient- hamlet, and so indeed is Morecambe, or as it was called in days of . yore, ,Poulton. How it came to receive its present name is not satisfactorily known to. the writer, for the t derivation supplied to me by a new acquaintance there the other day struck me as more ingenious than authentic, though it was apparently given in all good faith, and has all the appearance of probability. The explanation of the change frona Poulton ,to Morecambe, to which I refer, was to this effect: 14-1-Some thirty years ago Poulton, was a very small village, occupied chiefly by fisherrneno though a few visitors addicted to fish and ,sea bathing might be found here in the summer. a rad.ually the number of these increased, the accommodation extending in, the same or even in it more rapid ratio. The cry. was from year to year "Still they come," and'in answer to interrogatories as to the number of visitors, the reply invariably .was "More come." This became such a common form., of reporting the fact of fresh arrivals, and the plate getting quite distinct , and altogether another town from the Poulton of lold, it occurred to some genins,•whose name does not appear to have been preserved,.that no better name could be invented than that suggested by the  continually repeated report of an influx eff strangers, "More come." This happy thought seems to liale been at once adopted, and from that time the 'lane Morecambe has been irrevocably fixed upon tno9 large and expanding maritime town which 115 e, arisen on the site of the little village of Poult and there is no reason to change the nam oli for more come here every season, and more will CO I- am sure, for it is a.. beautiful spot. The count*: " round is charming,. especially about Heysham, nll the view across Morecambe Bay unexcelled in a England. -1 cannot _quite comprehend -whether tni, friend .is well-informed. as to how the change name came about, but he Was evidently ingenu th. and believed what he said and spoke in good N Should you or any of your 'readers be ale to al° ' firm this account of a matter, most interesting t many, or if erroneous, which I trust is not the esse' inform me of the real origin of the name Morecambe, I shall feel grateful. It is not pleasant to We small doubts intruding themselves, and it is bettl to have a pleasant illusion dispelled than to hol views in the most infinitesimal degree open 9 Auestiou. But I -must conclude, .or you will fo: that I am killing time by robbing you of some Cl yours, which. I .know. to be very valuable sac` assure you I would not have thus trespassed 110 your.time and space if I had had anything better te do, or had not already exhausted all the variety ous,  ife at Morecambe.- -tours, Morecambe, Aug. 23rd. COSMOPOLITAS* :We are sorry to have to upset the ingenious sta,,t'ei ment oft" Cosmopolitan's" ingenuous frieud' reyeronce for the antiquity of the neighbour 00 as well as a humane desire to remove a tact° than infinitesimal delusion from the mind of facet wanderer before it has had time to take root a° s blossom out into rank and poisonous fruit incluice;„ us to refer both him and all others who s,_ana need of such enlightenment to the writing's ° Ptolemy. This ancient geographer who • slr: 'c-eyed the British Islands in the first half of IL' second century mentions, amongst other thlogs s, the bay or estuary of Morecambe, and it is PI ba,ble that the name is derived or compounuen from the two British words—Aforeb, a ha.ve-,1 and cainm, curved, signifying "the curved hav,el:lo We shall be glad to learn if "Cosmopolitan le. any easier. —Ed.] . .