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Requested move 21 August 2016

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 15:15, 3 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Ash Hole Cavern → Ashhole Cavern – Historic England gives the name of this site as "Ashhole Cavern", one word. Possibly it was named by Sean Connery after someone he didn't like! See https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019133. Kelly ^hi! 20:46, 21 August 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. — Amakuru (talk) 13:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Searching reliable sources, GoogleNews gives zero hits for "Ash Hole Cavern" and zero hits for "Ashhole Cavern".
However, GoogleBooks gives 18 hits for "Ash Hole Cavern", but only 4 hits for "Ashhole Cavern". --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:53, 22 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
Oppose. Of the three sources actually cited, two prefer Ash Hole, and this seems to be borne out by BHG's Google Books search (though I have not trawled the results for apparent reliability levels; it's the job of a RM nominator making a COMMONNAME case to provide evidence the proposed name is the most common one). I'm not certain Ashhole is normal British orthography anyway; wouldn't that be hyphenated for clarity? Then again, there is Dumfriesshire, so maybe not. I did enjoy the Connery Joke, though. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 06:06, 31 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

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