An Old Man Lives There

[joanmack826]

Answer is a UK town

[mallyh]

hoy

[mallyh]

google old man of hoy

[bhg481]

Isn't Hoy an island, not a town?

[dannyk13]

It's an island in the Orkneys.

[bhg481]

Exactly Danny - the question asks for a town.

[mallyh]

oh sorry, it just fitted the clue

[bhg481]

I must say it was my first thought, Mally.

[naomi24]

It was my first thought too, but then I thought Hoy is an island. I'm wondering if the main town there is also called Hoy though?

[bhg481]

I can't see one on Google Earth, Naomi.

[naomi24]

Hmmm....

[Rosieandjim]

There isn't a town on Hoy. The main village is Longhope.

[Rosieandjim]

There's also the old man of Storr in Skye if anyone can come up with a relevant town....

[Fibonacci]

There is also "Old Man of Coniston"

[mallyh]

there is an Edward lear poem there was an old man of Dundee?

[Jackdaw33]

If villages are acceptable then Coniston would fit nicely. I don't go for the Dundee bit as the clue is in the present tense, 'lives'.

[kettledrum]

Are we definitely looking for a TOWN, or just a place in the UK?
Prince Charles wrote a children’s book - The Old Man of Lochnagar ... not a town, but a mountain in the Cairngorms.

[Canary42]

Godmanchester - after all God's about the oldest man going.

[Canary42]

Or Norwich perhaps.

THE man in the moon,
Came tumbling down,
And ask'd his way to Norwich,
He went by the south,
And burnt his mouth
With supping cold pease-porridge.

Presumably he lives there now, and must be pretty old.

[bhg481]

A letter count would be useful or any other information from joanmack826, who seems to have lost interest in the post.

[andres]

Oldham?