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Derby was also one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.
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John Griffiths
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Leeds also has a football club that was once managed (albeit briefly) by Brian Clough.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leamington Spa in Warwickshire also has a Sikh Gurdwara.
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Wootton Basset also has "Royal" in its full title
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lyddington in Rutland was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingsbridge.
John Griffiths
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The remains of fish ponds of a bishops' palace can be seen at Lyddington, and the same can be said of Howden, Yorks ER.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackpool also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
D6130
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Alton in Staffordshire also has a large amusement park.
DerekC
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Alton has a "Round House", but it is really oval in shape. The house "A la Ronde" near Exmouth in Devon is also advertised as round, but is actually 16-sided. (Is that a regular hexadecagon?)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fleetwood in Lancashire also has a cross-river ferry.
D6130
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Altrincham in Cheshire is also a terminus of a tramway network.
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Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a clock tower.
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Grimsby in Lincolnshire also has a tall hydraulic tower to facilitate the working of the tidal lock gates which enable ships to enter and leave the docks.
People from Grimsby are sometimes derisively called "Codheads". With Glasgow and its citizens not being universally-and-always beloved by folk in other parts of Scotland; Glasgow people are sometimes referred to, in a similar vein, as "Weegies" (shortening / distortion of "Glaswegian").
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Glasgow has a pub called the Bon Accord ...which is the motto of the City of Aberdeen.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Harringworth in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Corby.
John Griffiths
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Medieval Harringworth belonged to the de Cantilupe family; Millicent de Cantilupe (Milly Melons to her chums), sister of the last male Cantilupe lord of the manor, married Eudo de la Zouche, who was from a different branch of Zouches to the ones who owned Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
These folk may have been aristocrats; but their names put me in mind a bit, of Tolkien's Hobbits -- admittedly, a good many things do that for me.
St. Helen's Church in Ashby-de-la-Zouch contains "a rare 300-year-old finger pillory": a fairly self-explanatory piece of equipment -- we learn, employed "in churches for minor offences, like not paying attention during a sermon". Also used, in harsher times than this, on recalcitrant schoolkids. The Dean Heritage Centre at Soudley, Gloucestershire -- per the maps, formed by the adjacent villages of Upper and Lower Soudley -- in the Forest of Dean, just south of Cinderford -- also has examples of this bit of gear (school context); with, sometimes, real-life demonstrations of its use.
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Bibury, Gloucestershire is another of the many villages throughout the UK which runs an annual duck race.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Quenington in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Coin.
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Tircavan in County Cavan was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bawnboy Poor Law Union.
Tircavan would appear to be an example of that Irish thing the "townland" -- not really a settlement as such, just a metaphorical couple of, probably, farmhouses: administratively linked to somewhere bigger nearby. There is a townland with the same "Tir-" prefix (Irish for "territory", Google tells me) called Tirmoghan Common: in Co. Kildare; but the geographically nearest "proper" settlement to it, is Enfield, Co. Meath.
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Many years ago, I was told that Irish townlands had as much right to be used as posting submissions as UK hamlets on this particular quiz.
Mullingar in County Westmeath also lies on the line of the Royal Canal.
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I'm not disputing their validity in the game -- just: by the nature of townlands, it can be difficult-to-impossible to discover anything about a particular one, re the making of associations ! (More so, generally, than with hamlets on "the other island".) Usually some way can be found, however.
Also mentioned in the rollicking song The Rocky Road to Dublin [and beyond -- it emerges that the singer is going to the capital, in order to take ship for Great Britain] is Holyhead, Anglesey.
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Dolgarrog In Conwy County Borough also once had an Aluminium Smelting facility.
John Griffiths
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Dolgarrog formerly had a pub named the Lord Newborough - it closed in 2020. The real Lord Newborough, a big landowning nibs in those part s, has been giving his support to a community pub, Tafarn Yr Heliwyr in Nefyn.
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Durham also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.