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Land of Nod
In East Yorkshire there's a place called The Land of Nod. It's not much more than a farm or two.
I just wondered how it got this name.
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In the Bible, the land of Nod was where Cain was banished to after murdering his brother Abel; so the people who named the place may have been religious, and felt this was a similarly remote place. (In fact it may be a mistranslation for becoming a nomad; see here.) It's also used jokily to refer to sleep (as in 'nodding off').
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