It is a very pretty village and has the unlikely name of Godsend, a corruption of Godys End, after the Norman knight, Etienne de Godys, who built Belmotte Castle. Our castle — I mean the moated one, on to which our house is built — is called Godsend, too; it was built by a later de Godys.
I know this is not the same at all but it is similar enough to Gravesend in A Prayer For Owen Meany.
