I'll toss my hat in the ring with "Umberleigh" since we are in Leigh and with an "U". No real reason why, just sort of sounded right...
The kids were happy. It was the night before Christmas. Yet it all proved a lie.Correct: Brown (Pigment) = Umber, Janet Leigh was famously murdered in Psycho, and there is a pub there called the Rising Sun - over to you.
Hereford (= "here ford")Sorry!
Sounds like one means to cross a river here.
I'll try Fordingbridge
Next clue:-
No abhorrent bum here, as it has all been wiped clean.
Er, yes it is Barton on Humber , being an anagram of No abhorrent bum
Your turn
As above -- I like anagrams !
A sail or flight away: sounds a little like final consumption of the classically to-be-tackled-in-leisurely-fashion sweet.
Dunmurry in NI. End of mint?