is there such a thing as mount batten,not he bloke who was killed but as in a castle ruin?

Question

it as to be something to do with castles or castle ruins.

Answer 1

No. The Mountbatten family took that name after World War I, changing it from Battenberg, which they felt sounded too German. Battenberg is actually in Bulgaria.

http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/royalty/houses/battenberg.htm

Answer 2

This is a little complicated to explain. The name of the Mountbatten family was orginally Battenburg. There is a castle in Wales that was the seat of some members of the Battenburg family. It is known as Gwrych Castle an Abergele in North Wales. Lord Mountbatten, the Viscount of India, who was originally Louis Battenburg, lived in a castle in County Sligo, in the northwestern part of Ireland known as Classiebawn castle.

As far as I know, there is no Mount Batten Castle, but there was once a Battenburg Castle in the German Palatinate.

Answer 3

No - the name Mountbatten [all one word] was chosen by the Mountbatten family around the time of WW-One. Their original name was Battenberg or Battenburg - Germans. They did not want people thinking of them as Huns who were then the enemy we were fighting. There is no place in Britain called Mountbatten. Berg in German means mount, so all the Battenbergs did was to swing the name around about face - keep the batten bit and put the English word Mount on the front end = Mountbatten.

English place names often sound or look Germanic. Reason is that the peoples of UK are themselves Germanic. A famous English name, which is often mistaken for a German one is Attenborough or Attenboro. It is actually a district of Nottingham and probably familiar to Robin Hood. The same applies to the Saxon place name of Goring - sounds very Kraut but actually it's a place in Sussex - Goring by Sea.

Answer 4

Not sure about a castle but there used to be an RAF station in Devon called RAF Mount Batten.

Answer 5

Battenberg is a place in Germany, and there used to be Princes of Battenberg. There were British royal connections with them through marriage, and during World War I they changed their name to Mountbatten, which is a literal German-to-English translation. The Wikipedia article gives the details.

Answer 6

Not entirely sure, but there is a major connection with Mount Battern in Plymouth, Devon UK. A pub, sailing club, the Plymouth sound breakwater I think is also called the Mount Battern breakwater. Have a look at Plymouth on the 'net.
hope this helps

Answer 7

Yes I was stationed at RAF Mountbattern for two years it was the RAF Marinecraft HQ .It was named for the actual mount there which had a tower at the top which appeared to be a centuries old disused watch tower.It is in Plymouth.

Answer 8

There's a style of castle defences called mote and bailey. Is that what you're thinking of?

Answer 9

theres a pub called the mount batten arms

Answer 10

There's a cake called battenberg. Sickly sweet.