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Crundale

Crundale, Kent, was the address used by Canning in the preface to Everyman's England in 1936, so I presume it was somewhere he stayed during the 1930s. One chapter of that book contains a description of an unnamed village which is probably Crundale. In The Python Project the country cottage of the runaway Martin Freeman is "Ash Cottage, Crundale, Kent". Crundale is a small village near Godmersham off the Ashford to Canterbury Road. Close by is the village of Olantigh, used as the name of the torpedoed freighter in Atlantic Company.