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.
• Johnny Dingle, American football player
• 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 Municipality, Västra Götaland County.
• United Kingdom
  • Dingle, Liverpool, a district of the city of Liverpool, England
  • Dingle Road railway station serves the town of Penarth, near 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.
  • The Dingle, Anglesey is a local nature reserve in Wales.
• United States
  • Dingle, is a small rural town in Bear Lake County, Idaho

• Television
  • The Dingles are a popular family from the long running British soap opera Emmerdale.

• Football / Soccer
  • Burnley FC fans are referred to as dingle's by supporters of Blackburn Rovers after the characters from the soap Emmerdale.
  • Barnsley FC's fans, players and staff are called this by local rivals Sheffield Wednesday FC & Sheffield United FC.
  • Fans of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are referred to in the same way by fans of their local rival West Bromwich Albion FC.

[edit] See also

• Dingell