DerekC
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The Beaminster sewage is pumped all the way to a treatment works at West Bay, still in Dorset. (I knew you would all want to know that!)
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"Ship me somewhere east of sewage," as Kipling didn't quite write ...
Deep-sea fishing trips are an experience "on sale" for visitors, from West Bay; also from Brighton, East Sussex -- these involving activity around the sunken wrecks of vessels.
D6130
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BRADFORD in West Yorkshire also has a road intersection known as the 'Seven Dials'.
John Griffiths
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Stanhope in Weardale, County Durham, also has a pub called the Pack Horse Inn.
D6130
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GRASSINGTON in North Yorkshire was also once a major centre of the lead-mining industry.
John Griffiths
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Tom Mann (1856-1941), trade union leader and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, died in Grassington and is commemorated by a statue there. He was born in Coventry.
Comestibles in the sweet-cake line, unknown to me before seeking material for a post in response to the above one: Coventry has Coventry Godcakes -- triangular baked puff-pastry pasties containing sweet mincemeat (there are various traditions and derived expressions, concerned therewith). Tottenham, London Borough of Haringey, has Tottenham Cake: tray-baked sponge cake topped with very sweet pink icing -- the pink colouring is said to have originated by using mulberries which grew in the gardens of the Meeting House of the Tottenham Friends (Quakers).
DerekC
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Tottenham lies (to my surprise) on the River Moselle! This one is otherwise known as the Moselle Brook and is a little smaller than the French version. It is said, however, to have given its name to Muswell Hill, also in the London Borough of Haringey.
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John Griffiths
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Martin's Free House, opened in Muswell Hill on 9 December 1979, was the first pub in the Wetherspoon chain, which now has its headquarters in Watford, Hertfordshire.
DerekC
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Watford was once the site of a turnpike gate on the Sparrows Herne Turnpike which ran from London to Aylesbury. Another such gate was at New Ground Farm, near Wigginton in Hertfordshire
Springs Branch
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Next to Wigginton is the hamlet of Wigginton Bottom.
Another settlement with an eponymous smaller Bottom nearby is Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
(the village of Marlow Bottom of course)
Another settlement with an eponymous smaller Bottom nearby is Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
(the village of Marlow Bottom of course)
Springs Branch
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Durham also hosts an annual rowing regatta.
D6130
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Stanhope in Co. Durham is also situated on the River Wear.
The Wiki article on Stanhope, cautions against confusing with the similarly-named Stanley, Co. Durham, a dozen miles north-eastwards. They would seem indeed to be very different: Stanhope being an attractive country town, and Stanley (though no doubt it has its "upsides") a rather run-down former coal-mining community, in close proximity to several other such.
DerekC
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In 1909 West Stanley Colliery was the site of one of the UK's worst mining disasters, in which 160 men and boys died. However that was eclipsed by the 1913 disaster at Senghenydd, Glamorgan in which 439 died.
EbbwJunction1
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Men from Senghenydd participate in one of the world's longest running epidemiology studies – The Caerphilly Heart Disease Study. Since 1979, a representative sample of adult males born between 1918 and 1938, living in Caerphilly and the surrounding villages, including Machen have participated in the study. A wide range of health and lifestyle data have been collected throughout the study and have been the basis of over 400 publications in the medical press. A notable report was on the reductions in vascular disease, diabetes, cognitive impairment and dementia attributable to a healthy lifestyle.
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John Griffiths
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Like Machen, Whitnash in Warwickshire also has a thriving Petanque club.
I just cannot resist "twinnings" -- Thetford, Norfolk, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Essonne (just south of Paris). Thetford's "twin" is Les Ulis; Whitnash's, is Villebon-sur-Yvette. (It would be nice if Villebon had a club for the playing of bowls, English-style; but probably too much to hope for.)
Springs Branch
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Despite being portrayed as a minor seaside resort on the English South Coast, the fictional Walmington-on-Sea in the TV series Dad's Army was filmed at various locations around Norfolk, including at Thetford.
Another outdoor location used in the production of Dad's Army was the railway station* at Weybourne, Norfolk.
* - For information - Weybourne is on the North Norfolk Railway heritage line.
Another outdoor location used in the production of Dad's Army was the railway station* at Weybourne, Norfolk.
* - For information - Weybourne is on the North Norfolk Railway heritage line.
D6130
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Heckington in Lincolnshire also has a restored windmill.
Springs Branch
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Ilkley, West Yorkshire, also has a Grade II* Listed church dedicated to All Saints.
Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, also features in a folk-song involving the regrettable and unexpected death of a character therein. Cause of demise re the Yorkshire settlement, is a bad cold resulting from a hatless visit to the local moor; re the Scottish one, it is unrequited love.
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The former Aberdeen and County Bank, Fyvie (later a branch of the Clydesdale Bank) was designed by the Scottish architect James Matthews (1819 – 1898) in 1866. One of the non-residential works by him was a monument to his partner Thomas MacKenzie in Elgin Churchyard, which he designed in 1855.
In the somewhat "minority" sport of Roller Derby -- which if I understand rightly, involves teams on roller skates, playing on a purpose-made oval track; with players doing their best to block those of the rival team, from getting where they wish to go -- Elgin's team for the said sport, gives itself the name of "Helgin". The Roller Derby team of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, calls itself -- rather neatly -- the Big Bucks High Rollers.
DerekC
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High Wycombe's best known industry is (or used to be) furniture making, using wood from the beech trees that clothe large parts of the Chiltern Hills. The best known product is the wooden stick-back chair, although these are typically called after Windsor, Berkshire. Nobody seems quite sure why. The usual story is that this is where the dealers for chairs aimed at the London market were situated, but I have my doubts about that. I wonder if the London traders just thought "Windsor", given its Royal connections, gave an air of exclusivity to what they were selling.
Pembroke also has a namesake settlement in the Canadian province of Ontario. (Windsor, Ontario, is by an oddity of border-drawing: in that part of Canada which lies further south than a good deal of the USA. This Ontario Windsor is located immediately south of the US city of Detroit, Michigan.)
John Griffiths
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Pembroke was the birthplace of Henry Tudor, victor of Bosworth which enabled him to become king Henry VII. His deathplace was Richmond, SW London