The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CARLISLE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CARLISLE
- Stocking material on vehicle for city
- Man, perhaps, pursuing boy somewhere in Cumbria
- Outspoken historian in border city
- Man maybe after transport around large city
- Vehicle left key English city
- Vehicle left on offshore territory in Cumbria
- Thread under machine exhausted in border town
- Caller is redirected in city
- City‘s chapter gathering both sides in part of church
- Man perhaps following car having left city
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