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D6130
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"Not being funny, but..." -- isn't the W-name as above, that of the makers of the product concerned; not a place-name?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Observational view on the matter...not a posting.
There was once a railway station with that name, now "in limbo" but that was situated in Barlaston.
Is the spelling Wedgewood or Wedgwood?
John Griffiths
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As I now see -- admit to not having been aware of Wedgwood station -- it, and Barlaston, stations, sequential to each other (Barlaston is to the south of the other) on main line south from Stoke: both out of use for the past couple of decades. By my understanding, for what that's worth -- the settlement is Barlaston; in which lie the Wedgwood pottery-making complex, and exhibition centre concerned therewith.
Again by my understanding, definitely "Wedgwood" (no "e").
D6130
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Apologies....my misunderstanding (and spelling error). i was under the impression that the settlement was called Wedgwood, but having looked up the details on Wikipedia, I see that the porcelain factory complex was actually named after its founder - Sir Josiah Wedgwood - but is, as correctly-stated by @Xenophon PCDGS and @Calthrop , situated in the settlement of Barlaston. Every day's a school day! I'll delete my post and may I therefore suggest that @John Griffiths reinstates his post citing Poole and we continue from there. Meanwhile, I shall delete my erroneous post?
Xenophon PCDGS
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This is now the posting from where the thread should continue.
John Griffiths
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Poole in Dorset is also known for its pottery.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ilchester in Somerset was also an important settlement in the land area of the Celtic tribal people known as the Durotriges.
Ilchester lies on the little River Ivel (whence the settlement has been known at times, by the alternative name of Ivelchester). There is further east in England, another River Ivel, of somewhat greater magnitude: in Bedfordshire, tributary of the Great Ouse. Sandy, Bedfordshire, is situated on this Ivel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandford in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.
John Griffiths
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Intensive research has thrown up quite a few Sandfords, Sandfords+ Othername, and Othername+Sandford in England. My favourite is Sandford Orcas, in Dorset on the border with Somerset, which seems a long way inland for a place named after whales.
(My italics -- are you sure that goblins of the Tolkien variety, are not involved
?)Ashchurch, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oxenton in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Tewkesbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Codicote in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Y Foel in Powys also lies on the line of the River Banwy.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bobbington in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Seisdon Poor Law Union.
Bobbington is a settlement which might be called a "border town" -- it is just in Staffordshire, fractionally east of the Shropshire border. On our neighbour island, Carlow (Co. Carlow) is in similar case: only just in its eponymous county -- immediately to the west, across the River Barrow, is Co. Laiose.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portarlington in County Laois also lies on the line of the River Barrow.
Portarlington has a long-standing "French connection"; beginning with a number of French Huguenot refugee families having been settled there near the end of the 17th century, and having long preserved their French identity: traces of same remaining, today. In recognition of this, the town has held "since way back", a "French Festival" weekend every July -- with French-oriented "live music, dance, sport, history, food, and a parade". (Heartening, in view of most of Ireland's being strongly Catholic; and the Protestant Huguenots having had to come to Britain owing to Catholic oppression back home -- "nothing personal", it would seem.) Something of a parallel with the London Borough of Lambeth, with its considerable Portuguese community, having traditionally held Portugal-related celebrations on Portugal's National Day. June 10th.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Brixtoon.
The Mortlake Tapestry Works was, during the 17th century, Britain's most important tapestry producer. Also of tapestry-related note is Galashiels, Scottish Borders; where is located a gallery and visitor centre housing the Great Tapestry of Scotland: of recent date, with a thousand-odd people across Scotland having contributed to its stitching -- the work is described as "a compelling visual account of Scotland's history, heritage and culture from its emerging as a nation, to the present day."
Xenophon PCDGS
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Traquair in Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Sir Walter Scott Way.
Wiki tells us that Traquair "was once surrounded by the great Ettrick Forest". The extremely long ballad The Song of the Outlaw Murray -- basically about dealings between the King of Scotland and said outlaw -- begins with the line "Ettrick Forest is a fair forest". Much later in the ballad, there is a passing mention of the settlement of Philiphaugh (Scottish Borders) -- near Selkirk, and some ten miles south-east of Traquair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Culrain in Sutherland was also the scene of a battle during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Carbisdale Castle near Culrain was the residence of the exiled King of Norway during World War II. A corresponding situation re another kingdom, in the same period: the exiled Queen of the Netherlands lived at the country house called The Grange at South Mimms, Hertfordshire.
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