"Department of" re-purposing of originally earnest undertakings, for much less earnest uses: there is in Hendon a "small gothic complex" which was initiated in 1893 as a "Rescue home for Fallen Women", with a chapel attached. Later "morphed" into the St. Saviour's Homes for "feeble-minded" women; was taken over in 1926 by the Pillar of Fire Society as a bible college, school and chapel. It has been redeveloped as "The Pillar" boutique hotel and function suites. In Newport, Isle of Wight: by a comparable process, the town's former Congregational Church was made over into a nightclub, appropriately called "Temptations"; then entered into its current incarnation, a Wetherspoons pub named The Man In The Moon.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Cowes on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Medina.
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There is also a chain ferry at Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St James.
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Llanwrtyd Wells is the location for the World Bog Snorkelling Championships. Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire is home to the equally eccentric-sounding - but rather more tasty - World Dock Pudding Championship.
John Griffiths
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Poet Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd. He lived in the latter part of his life at Winkleigh in Devon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandwick in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Assuming that Castel is the one to make an association with...not Guernsey......
Alstonefield in Staffordshire also has a costume museum.
Alstonefield in Staffordshire also has a costume museum.
In our Channel Islands forays: it seems from past doings, that Guernsey has often been taken and used as association-jumping-off-point; at all events...
One of my various favourite defaults: Alstonefield is only narrowly within its county; a little bit further east, and it would be in Derbyshire. Kingscourt, Co. Cavan, is in similar case -- it being only just west of the boundary of Co. Meath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Inverurie in Aberdeenshire also has a place of worship called the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
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Horwich in Greater Manchester also has a football club named for the town's former railway workshop.
Inverurie Loco Works F.C. and Horwich RMI (RMI = Railway Mechanics Institute)
Inverurie Loco Works F.C. and Horwich RMI (RMI = Railway Mechanics Institute)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Appley Bridge in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Douglas.
Born in Appley Bridge was the ornithologist, wildlife photographer and climber Jo Moran (1930 -- 2021). A notable part of his work, was researching in the late 1950s, Leach's petrels on the Blasket Islands off the south-west of Ireland. Material concerning his doings re this, is in the museum of the Blasket Centre in Dunquin, Co. Kerry -- at the tip of the Dingle peninsula, and mainland point for access to the islands.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cairbre in County Sligo is another area where ships of the Spanish Armada, on their return to Spain along the west coast of Ireland were shipwrecked.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newquay in Cornwall is also an area where surfing is a popular pastime.
(I momentarily misread, for "surfing", "suffering" -- a town of masochists
?)Newquay has a small, white listed building, the Huer's Hut -- where was posted in times past, the "huer": guy who spotted fish shoals, especially pilchards, out on the water, and alerted the local fishermen for them to get into action. There is a tale concerning Crantock, a short way from Newquay: allegedly in 1835, a funeral was in progress there; when the huer's "shoal sighted" call went up -- the congregation promptly rushed off to their boats, leaving just the parson and the sexton to complete the proceedings.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Trevemper in Cornwall also lies on the line of the River Gannel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Withielgoose in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Pydar.
Uttoxeter has a connection with Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 -- 1784) -- lexicographer, author, and general "pundit". Johnson was born and grew up in Lichfield, not very far away: his father ran a bookstall at Uttoxeter market. Once, young Samuel refused when asked, to help out at the stall; remorseful later in life over this delinquency, as a penance he stood for a while, hatless in the rain, at the appropriate spot in Uttoxeter. Latish in his life, Johnson spent much time with his friends Heny Thrale, brewer and politician, and Thrale's wife Hester, at their country house at Streatham Park, now in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Blackpool also has a Pleasure Beach.
The song in the folk / music-hall idiom Day Trip to Bangor ("Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to ...") -- reckoned to refer to Bangor, Gwynedd, rather than the resort of the same name in Co. Down -- has been rendered in a comically down-beat, glum parody version featuring Blackpool, by Jasper Carrot.
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Penmynydd in Anglesey was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bangor and Beaumaris Poor Law Union.
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Taunton in Somerset is also a minster town.
Taunton is the most recent town in England to have had a parish church elevated to the status of a minster
Taunton is the most recent town in England to have had a parish church elevated to the status of a minster