From the book (although it might be The Further Meaning of Liff or somesuch) I can confirm Amersham is correct. It's the word meaning a tickling in the nose that foreshadows a sneeze - but only the foreshadowing, the sneeze may never come to pass. It's based on the Tube lines at Amersham station (Bucks) which tick and fizz and imply a train is imminent... yet it doesn't actually arrive.
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Chew Magna.
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Westward Ho! isn't a name of any great antiquity, but it does have an exclamation mark, and is therefore a notable direction to ladies engaged in the world's oldest profession.
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