My favourite toponymic poem (though perhaps with too high a ratio of
words to place-names to meet Keith's standards) remains Flanders &
Swann's Slow Train. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train for the
inevitable Wikipedia commentary.
Jeremy
Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...
No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
We won't be meeting again
On the Slow Train.
I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won't be going again
On the Slow Train.
On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.
The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They've all passed out of our lives
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.
Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train,
Armley Moor Arram ...
Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train,
Windmill End.
-----Original Message-----
From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of John Briggs
Sent: 01 June 2009 12:25
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Subject: Re: place-name poems
The antipodean genius was, of course, Geoff Mack, the songwriter!
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere
John Briggs
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