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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86872

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> 
wrote:

K: 
> There are a very limited number of directions you can travel 200 
miles in
> from Little Whinging. East or South are pretty much out (depending 
on
> *exactly* where Little Whinging is) and Hangleton just *sounds* 
northern. I
> agree with whoever said it sounded like a pit village in Co. Durham 
or
> somewhere like that.

Geoff:
If you accept the Lexicon argument that Little Whinging is on the 
very northern edge of what is now Surrey then English areas 200 miles 
away are either in the Lancashire/Yorkshire area or Devon/Cornwall, 
working on the basis that Hangleton isn't a Welsh name.

Strangely, the only "real" Hangletons listed in my road atlas are in 
Sussex, on the south coast near Brighton!! To me, the general feel of 
the passage in GOF is of a rural village except for the "dingy" 
police station in Great Hangleton. The name of the pub - "The Hanged 
Man" tends to make me think of the West Country and the Monmouth 
Rebellion but that is purely speculative.

Geoff