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« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2018, 06:34:33 »
Quote from: Oberon on March 20, 2018, 21:48:27
Oh heck, let's go the whole hog - Kemble on Thames..

Still a long way to go before the whole hog, surely, how about the twin parishes of Eton-on-Thames and Windsor-on-Thames connected by an over Thames bridge and then there's the parish a bit farther up stream, the current home of the current lodger in 10 Downing Street in the parish of Wesminster-on-Thames, oh yes, I remember, Maidenhead-on-Thames. I'm sure there are still more parishes that have yet to be suggested on this form that they adopt the -on-Thames suffix. While about it why not christen a few more parishes in the UK▸ (United Kingdom) with an -on-(river name) such as North Somerset-on-Avon and my own home parish of Yate-on-Frome to start with.
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« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2018, 06:46:14 »
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Still a long way to go before the whole hog ...

Good morning from Melksham-on-Avon.   I was hoping this summer to go by train from Wareham-on-Piddle to Swanage, but am put off by the dogleg needed via Southampton-on-Itchen ...
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« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2018, 08:45:02 »
Quote from: grahame on March 21, 2018, 06:46:14
Good morning from Melksham-on-Avon.   I was hoping this summer to go by train from Wareham-on-Piddle to Swanage, but am put off by the dogleg needed via Southampton-on-Itchen ...

Surely you mean Swanage-on-Sea!
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« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2018, 08:52:23 »
Sewage -super- mare would mean Weston has a contender in the olfactory stakes.
Dawlish a cote le Brook would be preferable to Dawlish dans La Manche !
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2018, 09:07:21 »
Quote from: chuffed on March 21, 2018, 08:52:23
Sewage -super- mare would mean Weston has a contender in the olfactory stakes.
Dawlish a cote le Brook would be preferable to Dawlish dans La Manche !

I guess we may have to take account of the (real or presumed) climatic increase in flooding incidents, leading to more names modelled on Upton in Severn.
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2018, 11:16:31 »
Quote from: ellendune on March 21, 2018, 08:45:02
Quote from: grahame on March 21, 2018, 06:46:14
Good morning from Melksham-on-Avon.   I was hoping this summer to go by train from Wareham-on-Piddle to Swanage, but am put off by the dogleg needed via Southampton-on-Itchen ...

Surely you mean Swanage-on-Sea!
Pedant alert, if you are going from Melksham-on-Avon via Salisbury-on-Avon to Wareham-on-Piddle then it would be Southampton-on-Test and not Southampton-on-Itchen. You would need to go via Eastleigh-on-Itchen to also go via Southampton-on-Itchen.
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« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2018, 16:39:23 »
Should it not be Wareham-on-Piddle-and-Frome in view of the route followed
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