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Cryptic Towns

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A new quiz from Ivo: A settlement version of the Cryptic Stations game, entitled "Cryptic Towns".

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A bookworm's favourite activity…
 
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The rules in brief (no complicated PDFs this time :p):

The turn player thinks of a settlement in England, Scotland or Wales, and provides a cryptic description of it. The rest of us have to identify said settlement. Easy! Just try to make the settlements in question at least remotely well-known, so no random nowhere villages please!

Example: Sheep's Door = Ramsgate

I best not answer the current one, which is of course A bookworm's favourite activity...
 
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I think we may need a little help with this...

I can't think of anywhere named "Great Call" or similar, and other than that I really don't know :(
 

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ok, prehaps if i say Top Point it will give you a part of the name
 

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Surely not North Pole?:lol:



( That's my way of saying that apart from the North I haven't a clue! )
 

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North something from the looks of it. But I can't find anywhere suitable in my atlas.

This place is (a) British and (b) prominent, right?
 

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If it is just one word, I will go for Northdyke in the Orkney Isles near to the Bay of Skaill (near to the neolithic Skara Brae site).....only because it is one of the more northerly British settlements.
 
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Warning!

This is very contrived.....:)

Northwich?

[some dictionaries give "wich" as a variation of "wick" - a wick is something which draws-up liquid by capillary attraction - you could say a decision is made by studying the available information and noting what seems to rise to the top, ie what seems the best action to take]

I did say it was contrived!
 

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Warning!

This is very contrived.....:)

Northwich?

[some dictionaries give "wich" as a variation of "wick" - a wick is something which draws-up liquid by capillary attraction - you could say a decision is made by studying the available information and noting what seems to rise to the top, ie what seems the best action to take]

I did say it was contrived!

Yes, well done Mr.welshman, it is indeed Northwich...
 

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Gosh!

This next one is not so contrived:-

The police depend on these
 

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Again, not what I had in mind.
And would you really call "Cauldron Snout" a town?

A possible clue - try a bit of lateral thinking.
 
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