Quiz: Test your knowledge of the city in the Big Derry Quiz

PLACE NAMES

1. What was the upper part of Strabane Old Road known as locally?

2. Which road and avenue in Derry are named after the English General, John Churchill?

3. What street and bar in Derry have the same name as the Chancellor to Charles II?

4. Name the housing estate in Derry that could be associated with Shakespeare?

5. Which Derry housing estate name, when translated from Gaelic, means ‘mouth of fish’?

6. What Derry housing estate has its streets named after birds?

7. What was Eglinton’s original name?

8. The Bishop Street well was re-opened in 1911 during a water shortage. Where was the pump situated?

9. What street in Derry was known as Soap House Lane and why?

10. What street used to run opposite Castle Street?

ANSWERS . . . PLACE NAMES

1. Dunn’s Row.

2. Marlborough Road and Avenue. Churchill was the first Duke of Marlborough.

3. Clarendon/Street/Bar.

4. Bard’s Hill (Gobnascale).

5. Gobnascale.

6. Clooney.

7. Muff.

8. At the side of the footpath opposite M & M Scotts.

9. Orchard Street, where the Hughes family established a soap making industry.

10. Richmond Street.