ABC Towns and Villages

[bluenotebob]

la Ville Eon - a couple of kilometres east of St Brieuc-de-Mauron - visited this morning.

Not the best photos I've ever taken but as this is the only 'E' I've found after weeks of looking, they'll have to do..

 

[Willd]

Just Z left now

Cold Ashby
Husbands Bosworth
Fenny Compton
Avon Dassett
Baddesley Ensor
Sibford Ferris
Sibford Gower
Temple Herdewyke
Bishop's Itchington
Norton Juxta Twycross
Monks Kirby
Little Lawford
Harborough Magna
King's Newnham
Water Orton
Newbold Pacey
Upper Quinton
Newton Regis
Stoney Stanton
Middle Tysoe
Thorpe Underwood
Compton Verney
Little Walton
Great oXendon
New Yatt

 

[bluenotebob]

Many months after posting an 'E', here's an 'F' in my 'La Ville...' series

La Ville Février, just N of Mauron

 

[bluenotebob]

La Ville Geffray, a couple of kilometres east of Evriguet on the D2.

 

[bluenotebob]

La Ville Halet, on the D66 east of Illifaut today

Posted so far: les Villes Aumont, Briend, Coquelin, Davy, Eon, Février, Geffray and Halet

 

[bluenotebob]

I’ve failed to find an ‘I’ despite searching far and wide. I have a vague thought that I’d seen La Ville Irène somewhere but either I imagined it or it was La Ville ès Irène which isn’t the same thing. If I was 50 years younger, I’d consider starting a ‘La Ville ès xxxxxx’ series but as it is this current one has been going on far too long.

So I’m taking a bye for ‘I’ .. but I haven’t completely given up hope of finding one. After a year of looking for a ‘Q’, I found one a few nights ago – it’s a long way from home and fairly inaccessible but, as it exists, I’ll do it.

Here’s a ‘J’ below. It’s not the ‘J’ that I wanted – I cycled to la Ville Jallu yesterday only to find the village sign overgrown with bracken – so here’s la Ville Jourdran, just south of St Brieuc-de-Mauron (visited yesterday lunchtime).

I can’t find a ‘K’ either – and I’m certain one doesn’t exist. ‘K’ doesn’t crop up much in French – but it’s prevalent here as a placename beginning with ‘Ker’ (but that’s Breton not French). So I shall take a bye for ‘K’ too.

My next post will be an ‘L’.

Posted so far: les Villes Aumont, Briend, Coquelin, Davy, Eon, Février, Geffray, Halet and Jourdran; byes taken for ‘I’ and ‘K’

 

[BoldonLad]

I’ve failed to find an ‘I’ despite searching far and wide. I have a vague thought that I’d seen La Ville Irène somewhere but either I imagined it or it was La Ville ès Irène which isn’t the same thing. If I was 50 years younger, I’d consider starting a ‘La Ville ès xxxxxx’ series but as it is this current one has been going on far too long.

So I’m taking a bye for ‘I’ .. but I haven’t completely given up hope of finding one. After a year of looking for a ‘Q’, I found one a few nights ago – it’s a long way from home and fairly inaccessible but, as it exists, I’ll do it.

Here’s a ‘J’ below. It’s not the ‘J’ that I wanted – I cycled to la Ville Jallu yesterday only to find the village sign overgrown with bracken – so here’s la Ville Jourdran, just south of St Brieuc-de-Mauron (visited yesterday lunchtime).

I can’t find a ‘K’ either – and I’m certain one doesn’t exist. ‘K’ doesn’t crop up much in French – but it’s prevalent here as a placename beginning with ‘Ker’ (but that’s Breton not French). So I shall take a bye for ‘K’ too.

My next post will be an ‘L’.

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Posted so far: les Villes Aumont, Briend, Coquelin, Davy, Eon, Février, Geffray, Halet and Jourdran; byes taken for ‘I’ and ‘K’

When you get there, perhaps, "Q" will be easier, it seems to crop up in French place names more than it does in English place names.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I’ve failed to find an ‘I’ despite searching far and wide. I have a vague thought that I’d seen La Ville Irène somewhere but either I imagined it or it was La Ville ès Irène which isn’t the same thing. If I was 50 years younger, I’d consider starting a ‘La Ville ès xxxxxx’ series but as it is this current one has been going on far too long.

Is this too far? Near Hillion. It's about 60km north of La Ville Jourdran. La Ville Indeloup

No luck for K though. The best I could do was "La Ville Kiosk DHL Paket Shop" in Hagen south of Dortmund!

 

[bluenotebob]

Is this too far? Near Hillion. It's about 60km north of La Ville Jourdran

Thanks ! @Dogtrousers

Yes - it is really too far. Hillion is about an hour's drive from here - well, that was when I had a fast car and enjoyed driving .. it's probably more like 90 mins now in my trundly old van (and absolutely out of the question in July/August because of its proximity to the coast).

I know Hillion - we used it as a base for walking two sections of the GR34 back in the 1990s.

It's also not far from Yffiniac which is the northern end of the V8 which connects St Brieuc on the north coast with Lorient on the south coast. I've been cycling the central section of the V8 this spring and if I ever work out how to do the northern bit then I would certainly be able to take in la Ville Indeloup at the same time.

It's also very close to the V4 - La Littorale (perhaps also La Tour de la Manche?) which I've looked at occasionally - the section from Dinard to St Brieuc/Yffiniac is doable (if very lumpy).

So - it's a "possible" that I may be able to get to later in the year - and retro-post.

Thanks again

 

[Willd]

Finished the second word version at last 756 days, 16 rides, 972 miles, 36,422 ft.

New Zealand Derby - as it's an area within a city I couldn't find any signs, however there's a community centre and pub, as well as being on the map:

Cold Ashby
Husbands Bosworth
Fenny Compton
Avon Dassett
Baddesley Ensor
Sibford Ferris
Sibford Gower
Temple Herdewyke
Bishop's Itchington
Norton Juxta Twycross
Monks Kirby
Little Lawford
Harborough Magna
King's Newnham
Water Orton
Newbold Pacey
Upper Quinton
Newton Regis
Stoney Stanton
Middle Tysoe
Thorpe Underwood
Compton Verney
Little Walton
Great oXendon
New Yatt
New Zealand