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Toddington

About Toddington

Toddington Castle, today known as "Conger Hill Motte", is an artificial earthen mound located in the village of Toddington, in the county of Bedfordshire, England.

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The Toddington service station that this guy is named after used to do a good thing, which I think all service stations should, where they had a power nap scheme — you could rent a room for three hours.

from 374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 at 00:05:27 · read transcript

Other times Toddington came up

  1. He's a guy called Toddington Harper and he is named after the M1 Toddington Services. He is actually, I believe, the child of some solar pioneers. His parents were involved in solar electricity when they were younger and he actually has a brother who is named Heston after Heston services. Both boys in this family are named after service stations. His mum just said, his mum was interviewed, there was this piece in the mail about this electric forecourt service station thing and his mum said they were driving back from the hospital, they didn't have a name for him and they drove through Heston services.

    374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen

  2. They said that they were driving down the M4, and they just started reading out the names of places they passed to see if any of these would be a decent name. They read out Roehampton, Putney, Siemens, Honeywell. that was for Heston, that was the first one. Did Toddington get his because that was just a theme, or was that a different route they took home after that hospital? What happened was, they called the first one Heston, and that is the first service station on the M4.

    No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen

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