CLEOBURY MORTIMER, Shropshire
Name from Old English
Clifu meaning a steep place
Church has crooked spire
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Ubusual U.K. place names 73. – London Apprentice
LONDON APPRENTICE, Cornwall
St. Austell hamlet
a tin-mining settlement
A true Cornish place
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Obscure words explained 81. – cavil
CAVIL
Blow against the fur*
he cavils at all I say
only to find fault
Note: To blow against the fur comes from the practice of furriers to blow against a pelt to find imperfections.
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Unusual U.K. place names75. Come to Good
Come to Good, Cornwall
Cwm ty Coit Cornish
Thought to mean coombe in the wood
Quaker it turns out
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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