England's longest place name

[hollowhead]

Which place name in England, ie city, town, village,hamlet etc contains the most letters?

[4getmenot]

This little farmstead hamlet can be found in the Redesdale Forest, and is the longest place name in England with a total of eighteen letters. Situated near the confluence of the River Rede and the Blakehope Burn, the name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means Black valley stream with flat riverside land. Blakehopeburnhaugh's status as England's longest place name is challenged by the nineteen letter Cottonshopeburnfoot which lies half a mile up the valley, but this does not qualify because the Ordnance Survey spell the name as two words Cottonshopeburn Foot. Remarkably the total number of letters in the two places added together are still no match for Britain's longest place name, the fifty eight letter Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is found in Anglesey, North Wales. Known as Llanfair P.G for short, the name means 'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave.'

[4getmenot]

Ha Ha what a boring reply, you can see I copied that from Google :-)

[jno]

dunno about your screen 4getmenot but on mine, it makes the last letter of that L when it should be H. Perhaps I need a wider computer!

[4getmenot]

Sorry last letter of what?

[4getmenot]

The longest place name in england is blakehopebarnhaugh.

[Hammond Egg]

I don't know whether multi-word place names count - but there is a village in Shropshire called Preston upon the Weald Moors. There may be other, longer names.

[jno]

last letter of the name 4getmenot. It comes up on my screen ending ... gogogocl ... but it may just be my screen.

[4getmenot]

ahh yer must be, does it on mine too but it is an h