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Old March 6th, 2007, 12:09 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
Mary Pegg[_2_]
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Default Another Brit Oddity

Hatunen wrote:

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:48:03 +0000, (David
Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

a.spencer3 wrote:

For those who like Brit eccentricities ...

Even this Brit didn't know this one ...

Some time this month, students from Cambridge University will be walking
from the nearby village of March, back to Cambridge.

It's called the March March March!


Any marsh on the way?


Or worse, does it pass through The Marches?


Sort of, and no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens

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