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To cancel or stop the audio click on 'Cancel' (access key 'y'). To restart the current audio from the beginning, click on 'Restart' (access key 'k').
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Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Widecombe Anagrams
Our friend Jon Constant has come up with some interesting and amusing anagrams.
They provide a minute or two's diversion from the normal stresses of life.
Can you come up with some better ones?
Enjoy!
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Widecombe Valley |
We love icy bedlam Lively bee, mad cow Love a weedy climb [.and a reminder that the Devil isn't far from Widecombe!] Welcome by a devil Evil calmed by woe Maybe cowled evil Cow evil eyed lamb |
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Widecombe-in-the-Moor |
Chime boomed in tower Boo! Timid cowmen here I'm one bewitched room I'm the doom in cow beer Woe! I'm demonic bother |
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Dartmoor National Park |
Rampant or look radiant Anorak dormant to April A Roman portrait land, OK? Top rank moorland tiara I'm a plot and narrator, OK? |
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Widecombe Fair |
I face weird mob Fie! I'm a bred cow Cow brief media I'm a cow debrief |
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Honeybag and Chinkwell |
Why, bleak 'n' echoing land Newly beckon a highland A high-necked, bonny wall Oh challenge windy bank Bleak wind 'n' holy change |
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The Rugglestone Inn |
Entering snug hotel Gentle on its hunger Hotel greeting nuns Gentle hour in gents |
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The Old Inn |
Hilton den Old tin hen Hotel 'n' din |
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Shilstone Rocks |
Treks in schools Slick horse snot Shrieks on colts |
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Leusdon |
Nodules Lo! Nudes Soul den |
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Ponsworthy |
Oh! spry town Try shop now Owns trophy |
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Café on the Green |
No green tea, chef Hog-free canteen No teenager chef |
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Wayside Café |
Face wise day We face Daisy Weedy fascia |
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Uncle Tom Cobley |
Only become cult |
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Beatrice Chase |
A scribe. The ace |
And a few other landmarks.
| Grimspound | Imp's ground |
| Grey Wethers | Where's Gerty? |
| Warren House Inn | Rain. Sun nowhere |
| Wistman's Wood | Wow on sad mist |
| Dartmoor prison | Rat's indoor romp |
The information on this page was last modified on September 13 2005 17:41:35.