Editing Amble (section)

== Etymology ==
There are two suggested origins of the place-name Amble. One theory suggests a [[Goidelic languages|Goidelic]] origin from ''Am Béal'', meaning "tidal inlet", and is attributed to the historical presence of Irish missionaries in the area who spoke that language despite most of the local population not doing so.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Ethnic Jostling in the North in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries AD |first=Paul L. |last=Younger |pages=70–71 |title=Ireland: Revolution and Evolution |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Strachan |editor2-first=Alison |editor2-last=O'Malley-Younger |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-03911-881-6}}</ref> An earlier theory, originating with [[Eilert Ekwall]], is an [[Old English language|Old English]] origin of ''Amma/Anna bile'', meaning "Amma's/Anna's headland".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northumberland/Amble |title=Amble |work=Key To English Place Names|publisher=[[English Place Name Society]] |access-date=24 January 2013}}; Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).</ref>

There are sources indicating that the name and variants thereof – such as ''Ambell'' and ''Ambhill'' – may have been in use as long ago as 1203 AD.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Place-names of Northumberland and Durham |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028042996/page/n48 5] |publisher=Cambridge University Press |first=Allen |last=Mawer |author-link=Allen Mawer |year=1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028042996}}</ref> Northumberland was not recorded in the [[Domesday Book]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The National Archives |title=Domesday Book |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/domesday.htm |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>