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In Europe, the longest town name is Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll-gogery-chwyrn-drobwll-llan-tysilio-gogo-goch, which is located in Wales.

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GeniUs · 56-60, M

I can join in this game; which town in the UK has a name where one of the characters is not a letter?

Ciaragrace · 56-60, F

@GeniUs hmmm not sure ?

TopOfTheWorld

@GeniUs Westward Ho!

GeniUs · 56-60, M

@TopOfTheWorld Well done!

TopOfTheWorld

@GeniUs thanks. It's a good question, I've not heard it before but I suddenly just realised the answer

GeniUs · 56-60, M

When I asked I wondered whether it was the world but then realised I was always going to fall foul of alternate alphabets

Tuscan · 70-79, M

@GeniUs there are several towns that have hyphens as characters, don't they count ? Westward Ho! is the only one with an exclamation mark though.

GeniUs · 56-60, M

Aah yes 'anything on the anything' I know where you're coming from.

Tuscan · 70-79, M

I used to live in Ashton-under-Lyne and a lot of my mail went to a nearby town called Ashton so I always emphasised that it was Ashton-under-Lyne. I got quite a lot of stuff with the word Ashton underlined @GeniUs