East of Eden...

Residents of Asbestos, a small Canadian town, are hoping that a change of name will give the place an economic boost. Companies have proved resistant to relocating to a place that shares its name with a cancer-causing mineral banned in sixty countries.

Here in Yorkshire we have communities called Bedlam, Crackpot and Wetwang. Just down the road from Asselby is The Land of Nod, which takes its name from Genesis 4:16. “So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden”…