Re: An observation on settlements in Britain

Paul Burke wrote:
FCS wrote:
Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does
seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The
Town Crier, but very few towns do.


Leaving the apocatastrophe aside, I find from a quick Google search
that there are pubs of that name in the towns of Weston-super-Mud,
South Woodham Ferrers, Monmouth, Chelmsford, Bexhill on Sea, and
Exmouth. That's before I ran out of patience. What brought that
comment on?

A surfeit of trolls?
--
John Briggs


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