The Slightly Harder Around the World Game

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Park Royal.

I can see this hitting a Tube loop:

Park Royal, Royal Oak, Oakwood, Wood Green, Green Park etc.
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Exactly what I was thinking! Right, that's enough of that:

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Tan-y-bwlch
All London buses: 23 hours 25 minutes (with Adham, David, Josh and Tangy)
Holds some alternative challenge records. Not sure which ones.
20½ Random 15 challenges: 01:58:48 best
That guy who runs those Twitter polls about tube stations and London Boroughs.
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Oops upside your head, say oops upside your head...

Sorry, got distracted. How about...

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Beulah
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Aham (Germany)

(Then: Amersham, Amersham, Amersham, Amersham... let's not go there!)
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Amsterdam, then.
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I said earlier that repeated entries were to be discouraged - however I agree that consecutive repeated entries should be banned. (Amsterdam would have the same effect.)

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Oort Cloud.

If this is not accepted (although it is the most around the world place yet posted), this entry becomes Orton Mere.
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The Orange One wrote:Oort Cloud.

If this is not accepted (although it is the most around the world place yet posted), this entry becomes Orton Mere.
In my opening post I asked for names of "geographical locations". Apparently the Oort cloud is nearly a light-year from the Sun. I don't think that counts as geographical!

I'll take Orton Mere though and say:

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Ashton-under-Lyne
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