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from "Phil L" contains these words:

I stumbled upon an adder when I was a kid...walking along some seatop cliffs
in N Wales, young me finds a 'rabbit' hole and peers down it, an adder
(about 4ft 6 long and two inches thick!) shot from behind me, between my
open legs and down the hole....this is the only wild snake I've ever seen in
the UK.

Sorry to disappoint you - adders are small snakes (up to about 18", I
think) and don't grow that long. A grass snake might, and I think the
rare smooth snake can be even larger.

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Rusty
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