Perhaps you were always wondering about the word, Cobblestone? Perhaps not, but here is some “Cobblestone Trivia” for you!<\/p>\n
The word cobblestone originates from the 14th century and is a combination of the words cobble<\/em> and stone<\/em> , but in Old English was spelled: cobylstone<\/em>. Wow, that’s a new word even for me!<\/p>\n Cobblestones have been used for paving for more than 500 years.\u00a0 The word cob<\/em> in Old English was a\u00a0 “rounded lump” . \u00a0 “Cobble”\u00a0 appeared in the 15th century adding the suffix “le” to “cob”, and meant a small stone rounded by the flow of water. It was these smooth “cobbles”, gathered from stream beds, that paved the first “cobblestone” streets.<\/p>\n In many instances they would be worked by hand in order to fit into a pattern or lay correctly on the road…hence the meaning of being\u00a0 ‘cobbled’.\u00a0\u00a0 Today cobble is a generic geological term for any stone with dimension between 2-1\/2 to 10 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s origin is from the 14th century and is a combination of the words cobble and stone ,\u00a0but in Old English was spelled: cobylstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[34,33,22,37],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}