Cryptic clues = station name

[neilmc]

Duncamp has it spot on, well done!

 

[duncanp]

Next clue:-

Lay small furry mammals to rest, but the wrong way round.

 

[neilmc]

Starcross? (Rats backwards and cross as in crossways)

 

[duncanp]

It is not Starcross, but you are thinking along the right lines.

I am thinking of a particular small mammal, and if you also think of a synonym for "lay to rest".

 

[perryman]

Wrenbury?

Scrap that, I have.

 

[perryman]

Shrewsbury...

 

[duncanp]

Yes, Shrewsbury is correct.

Small mammals = Shrews
Lay them to rest = Bury Shrews
The wrong way round = Shrewsbury

Your turn.

 

[perryman]

Thanks. I’ll go open floor please as I have nothing to hand.

 

[Calthrop]

I'll jump in if I may...

We might hear, in olde-worlde speech, of mistreating old gents by means of water and fire; also a Shakespearean association -- the hero / villain's sylvan discomfiture.

 

[John Griffiths]

Might we be thinking of a chap whose missus had a job cleaning her hands?

 

[Calthrop]

And who murdered sleep -- that's him. He has tangentially to do with half the name of the "answer station".

 

[John Griffiths]

Burnham on Crouch?

 

[Calthrop]

You're on the right track wordplay-wise for part of the name (the Shakespeare-relevant bit -- though per answer, that relevance is more direct); but you're very much in the wrong part of our island.

 

[johnnychips]

Birnam and Dunkeld?

 

[Calthrop]

Birnam and Dunkeld?

I think you'll find that this station's name is officially and by convention, "the other way around" -- Dunkeld & Birnam. That said; you've got the right one. "Eld" -- archaic word denoting among other things, one or more aged human male(s). The mistreatment concerned: dunking the old geezers, and burning them. The Shakespeare bit: in the play it's foretold to Macbeth, I think by the witches, that things will go well for him "until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane".

You to go !

 

[johnnychips]

Thank you. I thought I’d edited them the right way round, but I evidently didn’t press ‘save’! Anyway:

Insane raving goes on at this station.

 

[John Griffiths]

Girvan? That or Blackpool North

 

[neilmc]

Manchester United FC Halt surely?

 

[johnnychips]

It is Girvan. Anagram of ‘raving’. Well done John.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you.

It's a cold day, so what might the minister shout?

 

[johnnychips]

(Sir) Humphrey Park(y)!

 

[John Griffiths]

Ha! Good, but sadly not right. Geographically, however, pretty warm.

 

[johnnychips]

Deansgate (Dean, skate!)

 

[John Griffiths]

Very good again but not the one.

 

[John Griffiths]

Participants on this thread seem confused; maybe cheap ethanol will help them

 

[John Griffiths]

Hint: If you came home in winter and your house were cold, what might you do?

 

[Calthrop]

With a minister involved -- Heaton Chapel?

 

[John Griffiths]

Indeed, and followed by an anagramatical yet warming swig of cheap ethanol*

All yours!

*Not recommended

 

[Calthrop]

All yours!

As generally in situations where I feel that I've virtually had to have the answer handed to me on a plate -- open floor, please.

 

[444045]

What an uncomfortable journey