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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bolventor in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Lesnewth.

 

[Fermiboson]

The next large-ish town down the A30, Bodmin, has a steam heritage railway that serves the city centre from Bodmin Parkway. Another town with a steam heritage railway which is served from a nearby National Rail station is the small hamlet of Kingscote, Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sedlescombe in East Sussex also has a vineyard.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sedlescombe has its Pestalozzi International Village institution; in the 1830s Worksop, Notts, had a Pestalozzian school.

 

[Calthrop]

The late humorist / fantasy-spinner Paul Jennings -- a great favourite of mine -- has often proved useful to me in this game. He had endless fun spelling place-names backwards, and seeing what he came up with. Worksop backwards -- "Poskrow" -- he felt looked like somewhere in Poland. East Bergholt, Suffolk (between Ipswich and Colchester), where Jennings and his family lived for many years -- reversed, comes out as "Tlohgreb Tsae": which he felt just had to be in Russia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrabness in Essex also has a Bell Cage.

 

[Calthrop]

Wrabness in Essex also has a Bell Cage.

Wrabness's Local Nature Reserve can be a good venue for seeing turtle doves (Streptopelia turtur), a summer-visiting species once common in Britain, now very definitely rare. Another location where there is a good chance of encountering this bird is Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve near Stoughton, West Sussex -- five miles north-west of Chichester.

(It often calls for mention, how educational this game is. Before reading the above post, I'd never heard of such a thing as a bell cage -- I learn, a construction to make possible bell-ringing, in the absence of a bell-tower housing the bells, ropes, etc.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Compton Dando in Somerset also lies on the route if the long-distance footpath known as the Monarch's Way.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lymm in Cheshire was also mentioned in the Domesday Book.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Daresbury in the Borough of Halton was also once administered by the Hundred of Bucklow.

 

[Fermiboson]

The famous author Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, and died in Guildford, Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frankton in Warwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

Frankton in Warwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

Frankton has a semi-namesake in Shropshire: Welsh Frankton, near Ellesmere. The village is, despite its name, some miles within England -- such things are, in these parts, a bit mad: what with the nearby "English Maelor" -- culturally English sticking-out bit of Wales. Welsh Frankton has a neighbouring village called Lower Frankton. Skirting "forbidden territory" (just for interest) -- the local station on the long-closed section out of Whitchurch, of the Cambrian Railways main line, was named just Frankton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gnosall in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Local rumours suggest that self-raising flour was invented at Coton Mill in Gnosall; there is, however, strong evidence that it was created in 1845 by Henry Jones, a baker in Bristol.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire also suffered from an outbreak of the Black Death plague in the 14th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Department of extremely arcane "first to..." statistics: educated at Haverfordwest Grammar School, was Captain Francis Cromie CB, DSO (1882 -- 1918), the first member of the British military to lose his life in Russia after the Revolution (we learn that he is buried in St. Petersburg). Cromie was born in Duncannon, Co. Wexford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pembroke Dock in Pembrokeshire also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

In 2022 the Pembroke Dock town councillor Billy Gannon was rumoured to be in fact the (in)famous graffitist Banksy: this led to his resignation, owing to this stuff's negatively affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. Among Banksy's many escapades has been one which had to do with a prank at the 2004 Reading Festival, involving a bundle of spoof £10 notes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thirsk in North Yorkshire also has a Quaker School.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stage 3 of the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire cycling race passed through Thirsk.

The previous day of that same year, Stage 2 of the race had finished in Ilkley, West Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guiseley in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Of a public park in Guiseley, Parkinson's Park, Wiki says "...was given to Guiseley in the 1930s by Frank and Albert Parkinson. By 2002 it had become a wasteland with frequent occurrences of antisocial behaviour." It would appear that, happily, things have subsequently been cleaned-up on this scene. Unity Park in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has seemingly had a similar story in recent times.

 

[Fermiboson]

Burton-on-Trent is one of 8 towns with National Rail stations served only by CrossCountry trains. Another such (unfortunate?) town is Hinckley, Leicestershire.

 

[OxtedL]

That seems a little too rail related to be valid on this thread - but perhaps another link can be suggested by someone

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Of a public park in Guiseley, Parkinson's Park, Wiki says "...was given to Guiseley in the 1930s by Frank and Albert Parkinson. By 2002 it had become a wasteland with frequent occurrences of antisocial behaviour." It would appear that, happily, things have subsequently been cleaned-up on this scene. Unity Park in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has seemingly had a similar story in recent times.

Mavesyn Ridware in Staffordshire was also once administered by the North Division of the Hundred of Offlow.

 

[Calthrop]

Rector of Mavesyn Ridware from 1866 to 1876, was the Rev. Ashby Haslewood (1810 -- 1876): an interesting chap of whose existence I've only just learned -- Anglican clergyman, and first-class cricketer in his youth. In his church career, he held posts in various parts of England; including a spell as priest-in-charge of St. Mark's, Maida Vale, City of Westminster. There was a bit of controversy over this appointment, with suggestions of its owing something to a degree, on his part, of bribery and corruption -- "simony" in ecclesiastical-speak.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holland Park is another London location with a Spanish and Portuguese synagogue.

 

[Fermiboson]

Another conurbation named after a foreign first-level subdivision is Normandy, Surrey, in the borough of Guildford.

 

[Calthrop]

Altogether, rather "low-hanging fruit" on my part; but, in the purlieus of Normandy, Surrey: there is (unsurprisingly) a pub called the Duke of Normandy. St. Peter Port, Guernsey, has -- again, no great surprise -- a Duke of Normandie [French spelling] Hotel.