Mount Batten
About Mount Batten
Mount Batten is a 24-metre (79 ft)-tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre (2,000 ft) peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten (c.1600–1667), MP and Surveyor of the Navy. It was previously called How Stert.
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She was the Mount Batten family, formerly Battenbergs — Battenbergs who hurriedly changed their name to Mount Batten when the Germans became the bad guys.
from 231: No Such Thing As A 24-Minute Podcast, 2018-08-24 at 00:14:45 · read transcript
Other times Mount Batten came up
You'll think of Mount Battenburg. It's like two normal Battenburgs on top of each other. That is weird, though, because the Mount Batten were the Battenburgs, but they changed to the Mount Batten's of Philip's family and at the same time, they thought we need to sound a bit less German so they changed to Mount Batten. Get this. Do you know the exact thing which prompted them to change?
205: No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 · listen
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