York friends, how do you pronounce Acomb?

[MorrisZapp]

I'm a York lover and I want to retire there 😍

Google says that Acomb is a 37 minute walk from York railway station, so is it a suburb of York rather than a separate village?

And how do you pronounce it? Ta 😊

@VisionsOfSplendour maybe it depends where you’re from but I would assume gill like fish gills. Everyone I know that is called Jill/Jilly is spelt with a J not a G.

Why isn’t it nice? I’ve family that moved there and it looks like any other suburb. Doesn’t it have a windmill? It’s practically Camberwick Green and you couldn’t get any nicer than that!

I worked there in a branch office of a bigger firm , many years ago. We had customers from across York and the surrounding area.

It was common practice across the firm to refer to those with a touch of the Royston Vasey about them as "a bit Acomb".

It's a suburb that's quite a (not very nice) walk/infrequently served bus journey through congested roads from town. Avoid Chapelfields or anything near it.

Well I used to work there in the late 90s when I was a university student and I liked it!

You mean you used to parrot the snobby things your employers said as a joke. It is a perfectly normal area. People ride bikes, people put out their recycling, people have barbeques in the summer etc.

Came to add Alne to the list (although def not York, but North Yorks). If i had a £1 for every time pre smartphones, someone asked for directions to "Al - Knee" 😁

<Waves to another from Dringhouses!> Did you go to the primary school on St Helen's Road? I went there <ahem> years ago.

@notsayingmuch yeah probably.

I did notice that it gets the pong from the sewage plant if the wind's blowing a certain way.

H went to school in aycum! It’s not there anymore. Beckfield secondary school. Even though he lived in Clifton.
York is a very mixed area. We moved away in 98 but still visit family and the areas have changed so much over the years.
and like a lot of city’s there are nice areas right on the edge of not so nice areas.
but as someone said above tang hall is now up and coming but when I lived in heworth everyone avoided tang hall as it was generally a rough estate. I used to go to a step aerobics class above a shop in tang hall. 😀

How do you pronounce Heworth?

Hugh-worth

Oh ffs 😂😂

waves back
No but my dd did
I loved that school-I cried when we moved

Do Yorkshire people say 'worth' or 'with' in names like that?

You're not going to like this: it depends on the place! 😆

Does anyone with greater knowledge know if this is right?

I was told that the name Acomb derived from one of the earlier names for York - Eboracum.

Ebor eventually became York, the "acum" part of the name became Acomb.

I've always wondered if this is correct.

In our house it’s Hew with

Hugh-wth, emphasis on first syllable. Possibly not bothering with the W that much

Nowt so fkn queer eh 😂

Love this!

Are we mentioning Wetwang at all?

The Viking's name for York was Jorvik

*pronounced Yor-vik 🙊

It's HUGHwth and EYcum.
As others have said York can be very mixed, even in a small area. You'll get area of significant deprivation and poor housing a street away from lovely Victorian villas. Parts of Acomb are pretty dodgy and parts are lovely but that's normal for York.
When I was a child Clifton was really dodgy and now the house prices there are sky high as the desirability of Bootham spread geographically.

Harrow-gate (if you're posh or from there) or 'Arrugit?!?

The windmill is holgate not acomb. Bits of acomb and woodThorpe are nice. Foxwood and chapel fields less so.