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The Royals are ditching ugly sweaters this Christmas (a.l3n.co)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The "ham" suffix means farm or homestead. The Sandring part is a corruption of Sant Dersingham, with Dersing having been someone's name. So the place was literally called "the sandy part of dersing's farm" a thousand years ago and it got mangled with time.