Dingle (disambiguation)

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A dingle is a small enclosed valley, a diminutive form of "dell". Thus the Entmoot in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers was held in its traditional grass opening in Fangorn, Derndingle ("Treebeard," pp 82–90).

People

• Herbert Dingle, (1890 – 1978), was an English astrophysicist.
• Dingle Mackintosh Foot, (1905-1978), was a British lawyer and politician

Fictional

• "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" was a Twilight Zone episode in the 1960 – 61 season

Places

• Canada
  • Dingle Tower is located in Sir Sandford Fleming Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The park is also informally known as "Dingle Park", after the name of Fleming's summer retreat on this property
• Ireland
  • Dingle is a town on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, formerly served by the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway. It has given its name to a number of other settlements:
• Sweden
  • Dingle is a small town in Munkedal county, Västra Götaland, Sweden.
• United Kingdom
  • Dingle, Liverpool, a district of the city of Liverpool, England
  • Dingle Road railway station serves the Penarth area of Cardiff in South Wales
  • Dingle Dell, a section of track at Brands Hatch motor racing circuit in Kent
  • Dingle Dome, a nickname for Burnley Football Club's Turfmoor ground.
  • The Dingle is a sunken flower garden in The Quarry park, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Also in the county there are various valleys called "dingles" around the Stiperstones area.
• United States
  • Dingle, is a small rural town in Bear Lake County, Idaho

• Other uses
  • Dingle is a slang term for penis
  • Barnsley FC's fans, players and staff are called this by local rivals Sheffield Wednesday FC. Fans of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are referred to in the same way by fans of their local rivals, usually West Bromwich Albion FC.

[edit] See also

• Dingell