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Place names: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

137 replies

Kovus · 11/07/2024 03:41

E.g;

Oxford
Sevenoaks
Ingoldmells

Post one or more. Can be foreign, but needs to be reasonably well-known!

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Breathmiller · 11/07/2024 08:37

CharnwoodFire · 11/07/2024 06:51

Borders:

Berwick (🐻)
Galashiels (🍈...?!)
Bassrock (🪨)

Shit - just googled Galamelon and that's not how it's spelt. I give up for a Border's vegetable! 😂

Pe(a)bles? 🫛 😁

Blackadder
Fishwick
Kalemouth
Grey Mare's Tail
Wolfelee
Minto

TwigTheWonderKid · 11/07/2024 08:40

Cowley
Bucks Mills
Beaminster

Raveonette · 11/07/2024 08:55

London:
Cockfosters
Becontree Heath
Silvertown

Mukirinessly · 11/07/2024 10:50

Shrewsbury
Glenfield
Ingoldisthorpe

OliveTheaBough · 11/07/2024 10:55

swannington
Rockhampton
Appleby

Mukirinessly · 11/07/2024 11:01

Fishguard
Chippenham
Bridgwater

SittingontheSidelines · 11/07/2024 11:03

An dove er (stretching it?)
Minehead
Brazil

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 11/07/2024 11:04

Quartzsite, Arizona (I'm a Californian and this was a pitstop for us when I was growing up).

London version:
Burnt Oak
Marble Arch
Ravenscourt Park

Shepherds Bush and Goldhawk Road are so good! Props!

Notateacheranymore · 11/07/2024 11:10

Runcorn
Stilton (lovely, lovely, delicious cheese)
Jersey (best potatoes ever)

BobbyBiscuits · 11/07/2024 11:36

Heron Quay
Strawberry Hill
Ironbridge

whinginglittlefucker · 11/07/2024 12:34

Sevenoaks
Four Oaks
Oakham
St Ives (animal)

Kovus · 11/07/2024 12:39

Not understanding ‘St Ives’ @whinginglittlefucker ?

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whinginglittlefucker · 11/07/2024 13:32

He was a person - so in this classification system 'animal' includes all vertebrates and non vertebrates. So a place named after a person is "animal" eg- St Neots, St Albans, St David's, St Osyth, Bury StEdmonds.
Washington, Johannesburg, San Paulo, Solomon Islands

Kovus · 11/07/2024 13:44

Got it! Thank you. I wasn't thinking laterally for a moment. I was thinking 'a man' or '49 cats'....?!?

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TwigTheWonderKid · 11/07/2024 14:19

Have we had Leek?

CrushingOnRubies · 11/07/2024 14:21

Isle of Dogs
Cornwall
Stone house

Kovus · 11/07/2024 14:36

Yep. But you can use it again in conjunction with another pattern.

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TwigTheWonderKid · 11/07/2024 14:44

Amberley
Saltburn-by-the Sea

Kovus · 11/07/2024 14:59

Devon version:

A: Ottery St Mary
V: Ivybridge
M: Torquay

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Mukirinessly · 11/07/2024 15:22

Catthorpe
Chipping Norton
Saltash

Mukirinessly · 11/07/2024 15:26

Beeston
Market Rasen
Folkestone

Mukirinessly · 11/07/2024 15:33

Henfield
Nutley
Lyme Regis

Cocteautriplet · 11/07/2024 15:36

Hereford edition

Brockhampton
Docklow
Hope under Dinmore ( always supposed this was gold or some rare mineral as a kid!)

DeanElderberry · 11/07/2024 15:41

An Irish language one

Ballinamuck - the Ford of the Pigs

Mayo - the Plain of the Yew Trees

Carrick - Rock

GruntledGoblin · 11/07/2024 15:44

Kovus · 11/07/2024 03:55

Staffordshire version;

The Roaches
Leek
Stone

My neck of the woods originally! I was coming on to say Leek