In which English county would you find a town called Westard Ho!, the only English town to contain an exclamation mark in its name?
Westward Ho! railway station demolished. On 11 July 1901 a group of inmates from Bideford's local workhouse were carried free of charge to Westward Ho! for an outing. Westward Ho! railway station Westward Ho! railway station was a railway station in North Devon, north-west of Bideford, serving the village of Westward Ho!; a tourist community within the Parish of Bideford. The village name comes from the title of Charles Kingsley's novel "Westward Ho!" (1855). The exclamation mark was therefore an intentional part of the station's name; the only station in the United Kingdom bearing an exclamation mark. This was the busiest station on the
Exclamation mark the 2016 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate Jeb Bush used "Jeb!" as his campaign logo. The English town of Westward Ho!, named after the novel by Charles Kingsley, is the only place name in the United Kingdom that officially contains an exclamation mark. There is a town in Quebec called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is spelled with two exclamation marks. The city of Hamilton, Ohio, changed its name to Hamilton! in 1986, but neither the United States Board on Geographic Names nor mapmakers Rand McNally recognised the change. The city of Ostrava, Czech Republic, changed its logotype to Ostrava!!! in