Jenkins is instructed to report to the DAAG at Divisional HQ, who turns out to be Widmerpool.
The connexion between the village and the character can be explored at Kenneth Widmerpool.
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Widmerpool Hall on the north side of the village was built in 1872 for Major George Coke Robertson to the designs of Henry Clutton (designer of Lille Cathederal).
The Widmerpool Gulf is a name given to a sedimentary basin that existed as an area of open water during the Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian Age).