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Hungerford

Hungerford
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About Hungerford

Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) west of Newbury, 9 miles (14 km) east of Marlborough, and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 5,869.

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There seems to be a lot of news articles about people painting penises on the top of roofs. There was one in Hungerford in 2009, a guy called Rory painted a large phallic symbol on his parents' roof and his mother Claire, 49, said, "we don't want any more children. The idea of sleeping under a giant fertility symbol is rather worrying."

from 32: No Such Thing As A Good Gift For Gordon Brown, 2014-10-25 at 00:27:54 · read transcript

Other times Hungerford came up

  1. They were incredible. I didn't realize these things existed. and they were, it sounds amazing, so they were floating. There was, I think, the second or the third one that this guy, John Gamgey, who invented them, made, was one, a floating one on the Thames, just where the Hungerford bridges. It was this big floating ice rink, and it had a glass ceiling that went all over it.

    No Such Thing As A Love Potion For A Vole, 2017-06-23 · listen

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Coordinates: 51.4140, -1.5150

Thoughts on this place?

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