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Wooden actor in county town (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oakham

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'county town' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'wooden actor' is the wordplay.
'wooden' becomes 'oak' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'actor' becomes 'ham' (ham is a kind of actor).
'oak'+'ham'='OAKHAM'

'in' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for oakham that I've seen is " Former county town in Rutland".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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