Bognor Regis Investigation
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[image002.gif] As my coursework is going to be about Bognor Regis, I have decided to first include a short history of the town: Bognor Regis has had many name changes throughout the ages. Originally the town was named after a Saxon woman named Bucge who had landed there at about 680AD. It's earliest recorded form, Bucganora, means `Bucge's Shore'. 1404 had brought yet another name change to this medieval fishing Hamlet as it now took on the name Bogenor, which is quite close to the name it has today. By 1785 the Hamlet was now known as Bognor Rock's, and The Yorkshire Hatter, MP for Southwark, Sir Richard Hotham, bought land and in 1791 had once again renamed the place Hathampton. This would mean that the town is either 1321 or 216 years old, but the correct answer would be 72 years. In 1929, after King George V had ...


