Blog2003 ≫ A weekend in Portchester

Was curious about a new road called Caer Peris View1 in Portchester, Dad found info about it on this Portchester Castle site explains that Caer Peris means Portchester Castle, it's named after a guy called Perrex who declared himself king. There's also some mention of Cymbeline aka Old King Cole, though no connection to the Coles in our family...

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Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married to Clare + dad to two, I am a full stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.