Editing Catbrain (section)

==Name history==
"Cat's brain" is a common name for fields in the south of England. It comes from the Middle English "Cattes Brazen", referring to a rough clay mix used in soil at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cork |first=Tristan |date=2017-11-25 |title=Where the name Catbrain Hill came from |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/name-catbrain-hill-came-825247 |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Bristol Post |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Alice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyUvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 |title=Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials |date=2021-05-27 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4711-8803-9 |page=101 |language=en}}</ref> There are other Catbrains in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Surrey. Catbrain has frequently been noted on lists of [[Place names considered unusual|unusual place names]], within the UK and beyond.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29zh3dIgmv8C&pg=PR9|title=Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places|publisher=Adams Media|author=Parker, Quentin|year=2010|pages=ix|isbn=9781440507397}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shaw |first=Neil |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/map-shows-funniest-place-names-19454625 |title=Map shows some of funniest place names in UK you could visit in 2021 |work=Wales Online |date=2020-12-14 |accessdate=2021-01-08 }}</ref>