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Words that are Names of UK Towns

Based on a definition, can you guess these words that are also the names of towns in the United Kingdom.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list
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County
Body part required for sight
Eye
Suffolk
Grain used to make bread and whisky
Rye
East Sussex
Making a noise like a dog
Barking
Greater London
Sport played with an egg-shaped ball
Rugby
Warwickshire
To inter underground
Bury
Greater Manchester
Leafy green vegetable sometimes
prefaced by "Swiss"
Chard
Somerset
Piece of meat between two slices of bread
Sandwich
Kent
Bigger than a pebble, smaller than a rock
Stone
Staffordshire
To walk at a slow, leisurely pace
Amble
Northumberland
A group of ships or vehicles
Fleet
Hampshire
Looking at and interpreting words
Reading
Berkshire
A violent encounter between two armies
Battle
East Sussex
Holes dug in the ground to extract water
Wells
Somerset
Rhythmic way of walking used by armies and bands
March
Cambridgeshire
Body part also known as a hymen
Maidenhead
Berkshire
To shed an outer layer of skin
Slough
Berkshire
An annual horse race
Derby
_____shire
A bend or curving part. Alternately, a criminal or
dishonest person.
Crook
Durham
Vegetable of the onion family which the Welsh traditionally
wore on their clothing
Leek
Staffordshire
An otter's den
Holt
Norfolk
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39 Comments
CaptainUnderpant
+9
Level 81
Oct 15, 2023
Never heard of 'maidenhead' or 'holt' before. Could only think of 'molt' for the skin shedding one.
sumguy
+8
Level 87
Oct 16, 2023
All I could come up with was 'cherry'.
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 81
Oct 17, 2023
I tried that too haha
HyddenRizz
+3
Level 67
Jan 27, 2024
Funnily enough, Maidenhead is one of the more famous towns on this list

(Derby, Rugby, and Reading are the most famous)

xyz17
+2
Level 52
Oct 31, 2025
Note he’s using the lowercase so possibly referring to the improper noun not the place
Dml123
+5
Level 71
Oct 15, 2023
So tragic that Slough is the least known. Come friendly bombs...

(If you know, you know.)

phalocrocorax
+11
Level 84
Oct 16, 2023
It's perhaps understandable as the pronunciation doesn't match - although the same goes for Reading which far more people got.
Hinckford
+7
Level 87
Oct 15, 2023
I wonder what places would be good for a second version of this quiz? I was thinking of Sale, Greater Manchester. Hull wouldn't really be doable as that isn't its proper name, but Settle (North Yorkshire) could be another one.
b1094
+6
Level 71
Oct 16, 2023
You could have Hull by giving the answer as "Kingston-upon-____". Similarly, you could have:

- Barrow, by giving the answer as "_____-upon-Furness";

- Stoke, by giving the answer as "_____-on-Trent"; and

- Chipping, by giving the answer as "______ Norton".

You could also have

- Bakewell (type of tart)

- Brough (an area, enclosure, round tower or outer wall of a feudal castle)

- Corby (common trademarked name for a trouser press)

- Deal

- Diss

- Dorking (an English breed of large domestic fowls having five toes or the hind toe double)

- Enfield (a fictitious animal with the head of a fox, chest of a greyhound, forelegs of an eagle, body of a lion, and hind legs and tail of a wolf)

- Grays (the SI unit of the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, corresponding to one joule per kilogram)

And that's just having gone through letters A to G...

CaptainUnderpant
+3
Level 81
Oct 17, 2023
Why not just make a quiz yourself?
b1094
+4
Level 71
Oct 18, 2023
I don't want to nick someone else's idea!
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Jan 21, 2024
Feel free! There won't be a sequel to this one.
Lemondance
+5
Level 68
Jan 22, 2024
I feel like Bath is a pretty obvious choice too
GrammarBeane1
+3
Level 83
Oct 15, 2023
I wonder at the etymology for some of these. Like, Sandwich the place was first for sure (cuz sandwich the food was named after the Earl of Sandwich), but March? What's the connection between march the verb, March the place, and March the month? It's interesting if they're named after each other, but somehow more interesting if they aren't
GrammarBeane1
+6
Level 83
Oct 15, 2023
Ok, so I looked it up, and March (the month) is definitely from Latin god Mars, and then March (the town) is almost definitely decended from Proto-German for "borderland" (which got to Old French somehow and then to Old English and then to English). March (the verb), however, might be from the same place as March (the town) or from a different, unrelated Latin word for "hammer" (ie "tramping of the feet")

(my source btw: https://www.etymonline.com/word/March)

angrobper14
+7
Level 86
Oct 20, 2023
Rugby (the sport) was named after Rugby (the town).

This is because the sport was codified in Rugby School. Also, legend has it that William Webb Ellis, student of Rugby School, "in a fine disregard of football [rules]... took the ball in his arms and ran with it...", thus creating the sport.

b1094
+1
Level 71
Oct 16, 2023
Great quiz.
WanderingWalrus
+2
Level 82
Oct 16, 2023
Oh the shame! British born and bred. Lived in England for 60 years and only 14 right. I even missed one where a close family member lives!
Jango
+13
Level 63
Oct 20, 2023
Nice quiz idea but the 'piece of meat' one is misleading and doesn't match the answer. And vegetarians would disagree with this definition!
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 81
Oct 20, 2023
What alternative answer did it lead you to? In any case the clue makes it sounds like a pretty boring dish
Jango
+5
Level 63
Oct 25, 2023
I tried variations of Ham, because that is used in various British place names. It's Middle English from Old French hamelet (hence 'hamlet'), and related to Home, which is Hám in Old English. There is a borough of London which is simply called Ham https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham,_London.

I guess I was overthinking. Although truly, Oldham should have been accepted; don't carnivores put that in their sarnies?

timshorts
+1
Level 61
Jan 23, 2024
Well there is a Ham Street in kent.......
forky76
+12
Level 78
Jan 21, 2024
A sandwich does not necessarily have to contain a slice of meat. I thought the question was asking for the name of the meat in the sandwich.. Devon.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jan 21, 2024
Same, and I really didn't want to be thinking about that
Bobski258
+2
Level 55
Jan 21, 2024
The invention of the sandwich was putting a piece of meat between 2 slices of bread. The clue refers to this…not a modern day sandwich
Yanni47
+1
Level 80
Jan 22, 2024
I, too, think this clue is misleading. Better would be "Food item consisting of a piece of meat between two slices of bread".
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Jan 27, 2024
The replies on this are wrong. The original computer was for arithemeitc calculations but this would be a bad definition for a modern computer.

Sandwiches frequently contain no meat products.

HappyQuizzer
+4
Level 68
Nov 3, 2023
Agree. I thought it was looking for just the piece of meat so was thinking of things like ham, salami etc. Got it in the end though with a bit if an ah moment!
howcomehoney
+1
Level 61
Jan 24, 2024
I did the same thing! I was trying to think of what the meat in a sandwich was specifically called, and trying things like Ham and Baloney and nothing was working.
Nevson64
+1
Level 67
Jan 14, 2026
Yeah +1. I was thinking of “burger” and a bunch of other things.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Jan 21, 2024
I thought "Maidenhead" just meant "virginity". You learn a new thing...
Godfish23
+4
Level 68
Jan 21, 2024
Never knew what an otter's den was called... luckily I live in Norfolk and that was the first town I guessed!
Remster
+1
Level 81
Jan 22, 2024
Me neither. I had to run through every Norfolk town I could think of before I hit on one that sounded likely.
tigersue
+2
Level 75
Jan 23, 2024
There is also a village named Barley in North Hertfordshire. I typed it several times before trying Rye!
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Jan 23, 2024
And one in Lancashire near Pendle Hill where the residents get very angry if you park in their roads.
JesseFromThe6
+2
Level 70
Jan 25, 2024
I'll never think of "Maidenhead" the same way again.

Eww.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 9, 2025
pretty proud :) only ones I didn't get is slough and holt. (I could only think of molt and burrow (Which I wrote as borough, the same word for both things is used in Dutch and at one point in time in English as well. Thought that might be it since there are several places ending in -borough).

English is not my first language and don't know much about UK geography, so expected to do much worse :)

I recognise a few of the towns/cities, but I was totally reliant on the description, apart from maidenhead, I would not have thought of that had I not heard of the city as well.

The others I had heard of were Reading, and Derby and Rugby (always in context of what it was named after though). And Battle cause people like to write that the Battle of Battle wasn't in Battle or something haha. And if the town was named after the Battle or the Battle after the town. As you can see I didn't pay attention, but people made comments about it enough for me to know there is a place with that name.

KKD
+1
Level 56
Dec 29, 2025
In the UK, there is also an annual horse race called The Cambridgeshire, which would fit
Rade
+1
Level 96
Mar 30, 2026
Isn't Derby a City?
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