The original competition had a first prize of a week in Pigbaner - if anyone could find it. The second prize was two weeks. Consolation prizes were a few hours in Tadaslest. Lardle, Exuylton Bridge, Kirtin, Goinislong, Pigbaner, Dastay, Hodlifan, Elecan, Neitherhallow, Ulevbridy, Midhoop, Leardro, Guysher, Cappis, and most mysterious of all, the ghostly Sunk Island. In fact in Unslett and Edenly, aitches are about as common as hen's teeth.
Spelling is always provisional.
Leeds was at one point in its history Leodis. Twenty miles was still a long distance when the census was taken in 1851, and census enumerators in Norfolk, Devon and Warwickshire were trying to make sense of an accent very different from the English that they knew. As late as 1959 I knew an old lady from Kent who mistook broad Yorkshire for German. After listening, the enumerators had to write down what they thought they'd heard. As a last stage in this game of Yorkshire Chinese Whispers, we have to interpret their handwriting.