Editing Penge (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Penge'' is first attested in charter of 1067, as ''penceat'', and in a twelfth-century copy of a [[charter]] of 957 as ''pænge'' (where the place is described as a "wood" ({{langx|ang|wudu}}, and in which [[Eadwig|King Eadwig]] gives [[Penge Common]] to the thane Lyfing). The name comes from the [[Common Brittonic]] words that survive in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|pen}} ("head, end, summit") and {{lang|cy|coed}} ("woodland"), and thus it once meant "end of the wood", like a number of similar names, including [[Pencoed]] in Wales.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Penge''.</ref>

The largest [[Grunerite|amosite]] mine in the world, in South Africa, was named [[Penge, Limpopo|Penge]] apparently because one of the British directors thought the two areas were similar in appearance.<ref>Quest for Justice, VOL 9/NO 3, JUL/SEP 2003, p219</ref>