Comment by MangoToupe

> Langton is obviously "long town"

Are we speaking another language? C'mon, this isn't obvious at all.

> but Matravers is a very strange non-English sounding name, and indeed according to Wikipedia it's from French

Duh? Was "vers" not a major clue?

...what kind of language education did you receive? I was taught english, french, and latin. Were you taught german or dutch by any chance?