Place names: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

[Kovus]

E.g;

Oxford
Sevenoaks
Ingoldmells

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

Kovus · 11/07/2024 04:59

If you allow ‘ria’ on the basis it is a geological formation of rocks at estuaries (eg west coast of Ireland).

I'm a geologist and am ashamed to say I didn't know that!

Dog Leap Stairs (Newcastle)

Rye

Asbestos (Quebec)

Labrador Bay in Devon ~
Labrador dog for Animal
Bay tree for Vegetable
Labrador(ite) for Mineral (Labradorite is a calcium enriched feldspar found in and named for Labrador)
Well, that's almost it! Or rather ite!

Vale of the Red Horse

A = Horse
V = Ale

@AdaColeman What can you do with 'orb'?

@Kovus
In French, d'or means golden or the old gold coin.

Cowbeech Hill, Herstmonceux, seems to have everything in the right order.

Cow
Beech
And of course Eux which (as any fule kno) is the IMA symbol for the mineral euxenite 🤣🤣🤣

I claim 10 points

Nailed it.
Bishopstone
Bishop - animal (role for a person - previously approved)
Hop - vegetable
Stone - couldn't get much more minerally that that.

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Great stuff!

Great thread @Kovus - you have kept me ridiculously entertained over the last few days.
Cheers 🥂

Pratts Bottom (bottom is animal!)
Ryarsh
Lullingstone

(all in Kent)

Please enlighten me on what Ryarsh is ...