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Scotland:
Indeed; delving further into it, it seems the Flemish had quite a disproportionate
influence on the British Isles, especially in the "Celtic" regions. Here is some
additional information on settlement in Scotland (as well as the origins of some
prominent clans).
For the Anglo-Flemish, the half century between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and
the witnessing of that Glasgow Inquisition which brought them into Scottish affairs in
1116 must have seemed like the summit of the world. After the awe-inspiring repulse
of the Vikings by their fathers in Flanders, they had gone on in their own time to reach
and sustain a pinnacle of achievement never known before in the history of a nation.
Nationhood itself was a very young concept. Family bonds, loyalty to a liege lord, be
he count, duke or king, the honour of a sacred cause, adherence to the chivalry code
- these things were what bound men together, with national borders apt to be
secondary to kinship, perhaps because they were so unfixed. Those Flemings who
had followed Count Eustace II of Boulogne to England in 1066 and received their
territories there from William of Normandy, were now being offered large tracts of
Scotland because their Lady had become that country’s Queen...
http://amg1.net/scotland/flemfam.htm
Berrocscir
Several sources I've seen say that during the middle ages flemish travellers in the
Essex/kent Thames estery area could make themselves adequately understood.

Antwerp – “Het Steen”

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