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Tom Cribb
I have a vague memory, probably based on a newspaper article that isn't online, that Cribbs Causeway gets its name from Tom Cribb, the Hanham-born bare-knuckle boxing champion - the idea being that it (the road from Henbury towards Over, that is) was on his training route. How much truth there is in any of that, I don't know, and I can't find any confirmation online. --rbrwr± 22:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- The Street Names of Bristol - Their Meanings and Origins (vol 1) by Veronica Smith has this to say on Cribb's Causeway:
- Legend has it that the place owed its name to Tom Cribb, the fabled bare-fist fighter, but that was quashed by the discovery that the name had appeared on a map four years before the boxer was born. The name Crybe could have been a personal name - Crybe's dwelling - or it could have derrived from Crib - a manager or hovel. Thryduulf 01:22, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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