Cryptic Towns

[Welshman]

Haven for thirsty ceramic workers?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Potter's Bar.



Open floor.

 

[Buttsy]

Bertie's hometown perhaps?

 

[Welshman]

Potter's Bar.



Open floor.

Potters Bar was correct.

 

[D6975]

Worcester

 

[Welshman]

Bertie's hometown perhaps?

Worcester?

Edit:

I see D6975 just pipped me to it!
Well done!

 

[Buttsy]

Worcester

Correct!

 

[D6975]

Is this the cost of taking a pig on the train?

 

[Meridian richard]

Fareham

 

[D6975]

Fareham

Correct.

 

[Meridian richard]

Second rate weapon immersed in something that sounds hot

 

[Welshman]

Dalton-in-Furness?

 

[Meridian richard]

Nearly but not quite

 

[Seacook]

Nearly but not quite

Barrow-in-Furness

 

[Meridian richard]

That's the one

 

[Seacook]

That's the one

Uncle meanders wetly about beneath a brook


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This town does not have a railway station.

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Modified hint:

It has roughly 75,000 inhabitants and shares part of its name with a much larger toon/city.

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Final hint: "about" is an anagram indicator for (9,5,4).


It has now been more tyhan a week: the answer was Newcastle under Lyme.

The floor is open.

 

[Welshman]

OK - try this:-

There will be somewhere to sit here.

 

[Seacook]

OK - try this:-

There will be somewhere to sit here.

Chesterfield?
Settle?
Bath?

 

[Welshman]

"Chesterfield" was what I had in mind.

Well done with the other two.

 

[Seacook]

Joker next to one is very loud

 

[Welshman]

Clowne?

 

[Seacook]

Clowne?

No, not Clowne.

 

[Meridian richard]

Cardiff

 

[Seacook]

Cardiff

Yes, Cardiff.

Joker = card (in two senses)
one = i
very loud = ff

 

[Meridian richard]

Home to the New Model Army

 

[Welshman]

Huntingdon?

 

[Meridian richard]

No. Its somewhere in the North East

 

[Welshman]

Heaton?

[ with reference to the late Robert Heaton?]

[And there was me, thinking originally of Parliamentarians and the English Civil War. :roll:]

 

[Meridian richard]

No. Its an anagram
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Try putting the word of somewhere in the sentence and it makes a bit more sense
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I will give it till tomorrow morning then give the answer

Any more clues on the basis I have already said its an anagram (of one of the words) will give it to you

 

[Seacook]

No. Its an anagram
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
Try putting the word of somewhere in the sentence and it makes a bit more sense
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
I will give it till tomorrow morning then give the answer

Any more clues on the basis I have already said its an anagram (of one of the words) will give it to you

Is it Yarm? I kept thinking it could be an anagram of "model army" but you've said the anagram was only one word.