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When Zeal and Lytchett’s eyes met across the village square | Letters
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Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s article on the sweet spot between quaint rural place names and nominative determinismHow could Adrian Chiles have overlooked Dorset, where quaint village-naming meets nominative determinism (From Bentley Pauncefoot to Yetts O’Muckhart, I’m obsessed with Britain’s weirdly named villages, 7 October)?The county is home to the three Matravers brothers: dark and cruel Langton, squandering the family fortune at the gambling tables; Worth, a one-nation Tory and local

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