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Image: Brougham Castle

Unusual site names quiz

We’ve identified a few of our sites with unusual-sounding place names (as well as a few that we just love the sound of). Do you know where they are? Test your geographic knowledge with our 20 questions quiz below. When you’re done, check out our article on how English place names have developed, including some odd linguistic quirks.

Questions

  • 1: Bant's Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village

  • 2: Bolingbroke Castle

  • 3: Brough Castle

  • 4: Brougham Castle

  • 5: Caister Roman Fort

  • 6: Carrawburgh Roman Fort and Temple of Mithras

  • 7: Chichele College

  • 8: Chysauster Ancient Village

  • 9: Dymchurch Martello Tower

  • 10: Gisborough Priory

  • 11: Kit’s Coty House and Little Kit’s Coty House

  • 12: Poltross Burn Milecastle

  • 13: Rievaulx Abbey

  • 14: Trethevy Quoit

  • 15: Uley Long Barrow (Hetty Pegler’s Tump)

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