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OTL: England in later Anglo-Saxon times: Many Vikings likely shipwrecked in storms in the Bristol Channel and elsewhere. In the Avon (Somerset) gorge the Anglo-Saxon settlement Brycgstow (meaning Bridge-place or similar) later gradually becomes modern Bristol.
20th century: In Bristol a technical college is built.
ATL: The storm becomes more thundery, and the lightning flashes show those Vikings a way to land, in the mouth of the Somerset Avon. They land and haul their ships out. Thair ships need so much repair that they must stay there a while. They see the Avon Gorge and so rename the place Hol-by = "dwelling in or by a hollow". They settle there. 1066 passes. Time passes. In the Middle Ages the men there start to get family surnames; one descendant of the Viking settlers gets the surname Fairhead. In the 20th century a hospital is built where the OTL technical college would be. Time passes, and the Casualty series events happen.