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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: July 24, 2009, 03:58:07 AM »
There's actually a British constituency named after a person rather than a geographical location; Islwyn (the pen-name of 19th century poet William Thomas) in South Wales.
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2009, 06:26:14 AM »
Quote from: Lewis Trondheim on July 24, 2009, 05:59:22 AM
Oh. I thought that was some obscure geographic term for the area.

An obscure term for part of the area is Mynyddislwyn (which is what Thomas took Islwyn from). But until the 1974 local government vandalism, "Islwyn" on its own was only associated with the poet.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2009, 05:20:56 PM »
The idiots at the boundary commision have started to, alas. Still rare though.
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