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Thread #168018   Message #4059321
Posted By: Mo the caller
15-Jun-20 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fun with maps
Subject: RE: BS: Fun with maps
A Pingle (in Staffordshire) is a 'wooded dell' according to Ken Alexander who wrote a dance called Pride of the Pingle.(After someone from a housing estate called the Pingle.) This crossed the Atlantic and someone thought it must be called after the Irish town so called it Pride of Dingle, and called a figure from the dance that she borrowed for a dance of her own a 'dingle'

So how many names for wooded valleys are there? Pingle, dingle, clough, chine (Blackgang chine on the IOW)