Government office in Michel Delving in the Shire. The Town Hole was where the Mayor of Michel Delving presided. It was built into the chalky hills of the White Downs. At the Prancing Pony in Bree, Peregrin Took amused the crowd in the Common Room with a story about the roof of the Town Hole collapsing and covering Mayor Will Whitfoot in chalk, earning him the nickname Flourdumpling.