Need Help Naming a Country Estate for a Story

[romantico]

It's summer,hot and humid, and I am spending a lot of my time inside. Thought I would start writing a story I had started a while back. I need a name of a house and was hoping someone here might have some unique suggestions. The house is a Manor. I was thinking of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford's estate, 'Pickfair'or Rudolph Valentino's estate which was named "Falcon's Lair". Michale Jackson's place was called 'Neverland Ranch' and George Lucas's estate is called 'Skywalker Ranch'.

This is a country estate in Connecticut and I want it to sound like someplace you would want to stay for a weekend. Any suggestions?

[unpossibles]

1. Morningwood?

sorry.

[romantico]

4. LOL!

Morningwood Manor! I LOVE IT! Of course, that will be for an entirely different story.

[johnnie]

18. Or if it's an older couple's home

Viagrawood Manor.

[LibertyLover]

2. I took a look at some Connecticut town and city names

and found a couple that I thought sounded good when linked to Manor:

Byram
Easton
Round Hill
Barkhamstead
Colebrook
Haddam
Winstead
Brandford
Wallingford
Talcott
Kilingly
Northford

Have fun.

[joeybee12]

3. And you could tke half of one word and combine it with half of another...

...these seem really interchangeable.

[romantico]

5. I

I really love those! Thanks!!!

[MilesColtrane]

6. Trembling Hills

No...wait. That's my name for a fictional rehab center.

[zipplewrath]

7. Hunter Glenn

It's actually the name of a friends son. I call him "sub" 'cause his name sounds like a subdivision.

[ChoralScholar]

8. hmm...

Here's some subdivisions in my area - these would make good 'Manors'

Pippinpost
Pickwicket
Fox Glen
Cobblestone
Brownstone
Park Hill

[AngryAmish]

9. Pedobear?

[LibertyLover]

10. It's the new name for a bear

who likes bear cubs. :evilgrin:

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. I actually LIKE the name "Morningwood"...

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[romantico]

12. yeah

yeah but it sounds like a sex clinic. Didn't Tiger Woods go to Morningwood for his sex addiction?

[applegrove]

13. I had a friend whose family home was named Lochisle. It sounds really nice.

Plus it has that scottish thing going Loch=Lake.

[rug]

14. Bridgeport Glen

[madinmaryland]

19. Dude! I lived in Bridgeport and there are no glens there.

:D

[rug]

21. I know.

:)

[david13]

15. Greystone manor. Only slightly used by a little old lady from Pasadena. dc

[rurallib]

16. penobscot point

[madinmaryland]

20. Wrong state.

[elleng]

17. RobinWood

[triguy46]

22. Devon Lakewood Estate on Manor Creek by Bayside of the Hills

Just read any real estate section of a newspaper for the latest suburb name fest. Must include something UK ish, a water feature, and be by something or other. I think they use a random name generator.

[triguy46]

23. Glengary Glen Ross

[mikeSchmuckabee]

24. Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut

by J D Salinger.

[redwitch]

25. Tara

or, Manderley, or Xanadu.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. Passing Wind.

That's what I'm naming my place when I build it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. Four Oaks

[MajorChode]

28. Morning Wood

Can you believe there's a wiki entry on it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_wood

[csziggy]

29. While doing genealogy I read some seventeenth century land transactions

One man called his estate "I Like It Here" but apparently he found a better place a few years later. His name for his new place: "Here I Will Stay".

[jobycom]

30. Olive Gardens? You could have a catchy slogan, like "Here, you're kin." Or something.

I got nuthin.

[Alexander]

31. Hilfordshire Estates

[Xipe Totec]

32. Norfolk Resolves

See Suffolk Resolves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Resolves

[cloudbase]

33. Costa Plente

[hippywife]

34. What is the plot line

and have you named the characters?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. yes, this would help a lot.

:hi:

[romantico]

43. Its

Its a Murder mystery.Cross between The Last of Sheila and The Honey Pot.Delves into the Broadway world(theatre agents,producers,stage actors,critics,etc.)About 3/4's of the film takes place in this country home in Connecticut and it's all of them trying to figure out who the murderer is.I have characters but no names as of yet. I like alot of the suggestions,although I am trying to eliminate the Manor after the name if possible.I'm looking into European names because of it being New England and I figure some people may not have heard of some of the names that are more common in Europe.I'm asking friends the same question in this thread. Gonna get a list and then narrow it down. Wellington Place and Ambers Lair are two I sort of like.Thanks again for the ideas!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

49. A connecticut murder mystery? Lieber Manor

[romantico]

50. Its

Its a mystery not a terrifying horror flick! (although Joe could play the Butler)

[gvstn]

51. There is a

Street near me Catswamp Rd. I always wonder who owned the property and originally had naming rights to the new road? But you have to admit it has its subtle charms. :)

No real suggestion except that you are on the right path dropping manor from the name. Think of Brideshead Revisited where the estate is always referred to as Brideshead. Or any of the Jane Austin novels where the houses/properties are described as manors or estates and then referred to by just the name. The media called Mj's house Neverland Ranch but I'm sure he referred to it as just Neverland.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

35. Deerfields

[Aristus]

37. Here's a great dignified, English-sounding manor name:

Benford Manor.

Named for my elementary school gym teacher.

[Wolf Frankula]

38. Are the Characters Rethuglicans?

Call it Scummhaven.

If not, give it an Indian sounding name, Iwannapony.

Wolf

[carlyhippy]

39. Maplewood

[UTUSN]

40. GREEN ACRES. o.k., it's lame. It was because of this:

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[grasswire]

41. Nutmeg

Nutmeg Hall, Nutmeg House, Nutmeg Manse, maybe

"Manor" has particular meaning in early New England colonies, alluding to a land grant from the King of England.

[The Midway Rebel]

42. White Port, Shallow Acres, Vapidity Valley, Cup Cake Estates, Twinkiville

Lavish Lawns, Randville, Upper Crust Crest, Elite Estates, Haughty Hieghts, The Wasp Nest, Midway Manor, (my house), Rebel Ranch (my farm).

[Tikki]

44. Twittering Heights....

Tikki

[TheManInTheMac]

45. Howard's Buttcrack.

Howard's End was already taken.

[Solly Mack]

46. Call it "The Laurels" and say it is because the state flower, the mountain laurel, grows

so abundantly on the estate.

[Mendocino]

47. Castle Anthrax

(see Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

[Ikonoklast]

48. Everbody must get a spanking!

[Chan790]

52. My parents went with "Sandy Bog Mountain"

My grandparents left my mom several acres of land and a farmhouse on top of a mountain in the lower Berkshires of Connecticut.

No lie. I feel the need to say that as this story gets absurd quickly. When they were building, because it was such a large addition that it was basically new construction, they had to get a site inspection. Mind you, there has been a house on this site for 60 years at this point. So, they discovered that the septic system was shot. So the health inspector comes out and says "You can't have a leach field, the soil is too sandy. So, because they don't want to have to put in a cistern that will have to be emptied yearly or thereabouts, they seek a second opinion. Second guy comes out, does his tests comes back to the house. Says "You cant have a leach field." My parents says they know, too sandy. He says "Sand? You haven't got no sand. What you've got is wetlands, a bog sitting on top of clay substrate. It won't leach and the first time it rains you're going to pollute the water table for miles." So...they relent. They hire the contractor to come out and dig the cistern for the system. He gets the backhoe out there, starts digging the hole and says "I don't know why you went with the cistern, you've got beautiful drainage."

My mother storms to the house, calls the health inspector and says she's putting in the leach field and he can come arrest her if he wants. About a month later, the guy shows up with his probe. sticks it in the turf, takes his reading, makes a face, moves about 40 feet and takes another. Now he's visibly pissed-off storms to the center of the yard, right on top of the illegal leech field and probes. Still gets a contamination-free reading and storms off, Last time we saw the guy. That as five years ago.

My parents bought a brass plaque for the front yard, reads "Sandy Bog Mountain" and the street address. There is of-course neither sand or a bog.

[NJCher]

53. Merry Hall

Was the name of a book by Beverley Nichols. Nichols was a prolific writer and lived in and wrote about many estates in England. Here's a link to a site about him and there's also a wikipedia entry.

I'd say to peruse his works for interesting ideas.

http://www.beverleynichols.com/


Cher