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In the late 19th century, Tresaith had for a while, some prominence as a seaside resort: local newspapers called it rather hyperbolically, a "second Brighton". Reminiscent of, in that era, Aberystwyth -- also in Ceredigion -- being dubbed "the Biarritz of Wales". (The thought appeals, of the French returning the compliment and describing Biarritz as " l'Aberystwyth du Pays Basque" -- one thinks, probably not :s ...)
 
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The naturalist and geographer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 -- 1913) lived for a while in Neath in the 1840s; he was born in Llanbadoc, Monmouthshire (just south of the town of Usk). Wallace is most noted for establishing in the natural-history realm, the Wallace Line -- geographical boundary between the areas in which obtain Asian fauna, and Australasian.
 
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Llanthewy Vach (in orthodox Welsh spelling, Llanddewi Fach) has -- as expectable from the name -- a church dedicated to St. David. Dalkeith, Midlothian, has a church with the same dedicatee.
 
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A short way east of Musselburgh is the village of Wallyford, East Lothian; whose name appeals to my childish sense of humour: I see it as populated exclusively by goofy and annoying -- if harmless -- twerps.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Unsurprisingly, Terrington St Clement in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Clement.
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The area in which this settlement lies -- around the southern shores of the Wash -- has long been a renowned venue for wildfowling: shooting of waterfowl, nowadays carried on subject to sensible regulation (Terrington St. Clement has a pub called the Wildfowler). Another part of the country which is big on this activity, is the Solway Firth area. A settlement thereabouts, important in the pursuit, is the village of Powfoot, Dumfries and Galloway -- on the shore of the Firth, a few miles west of Annan.
 
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Robert Blake (1598 -- 1657), naval officer and admiral ("big" in naval matters, during Cromwell's period of rule), was born in Bridgwater -- where he is commemorated by a prominent statue near the town centre. He died at sea; but just a short way off Plymouth.
 
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Ian Fleming stayed at the Grade 1 listed Elizabethan country house of Moyns Park, very near Halstead; and is thought to have put the finishing touches there, to his From Russia With Love. His elder brother Peter -- journalist and travel writer -- spent the latter part of his life as squire of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire (between Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford).
 
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Shillingford has a guest house styling itself the Kingfisher Inn. Colyton, Devon, has a "pub proper" called the Kingfisher.
 
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Some centuries ago, Portarlington received its present name; replacing one derived from the Irish language. This also happened with Newmarket, Co. Cork: part of the process of consolidating England's hold on Ireland via settling / "planting". The settlements' older names were Cooletoodera and Aghatrasna respectively.
 
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The River Blackwater (one of several of that name in Ireland) rises in the parish of Brosna. A considerable way downstream, it flows by Fermoy, Co. Cork.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church named Christ Church.
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Scrape, scrape, barrel-wise: the snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins lived for a time in Heald Green. G.K. Chesterton wrote a (semi-)comic poem about another -- fictional -- Higgins, a "creedless Puritan". Chesterton died, in 1936 -- and is buried -- at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
 
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One of my fairly frequent "saviors" in this game is the late humorist Paul Jennings; much of whose stuff I love. He got endless fun from playing around in various ways with British place-names -- in which games of his, Babbacombe (among many others) featured. I like his supposed "old and wise saying" involving the names of: what is now a part of the London Borough of Bexley -- Erith -- and a Northumbrian town. Thus, "Man erith, woman morpeth": it somehow sounds meaningful and profound.
 
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Noting what you say above, the two most important words in Welsh that I made sure I knew the meaning of were Dynion and Merched....can you guess which particular public buildings are signed as such?

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Plumstead in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Little and Lessness.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Noting what you say above, the two most important words in Welsh that I made sure I knew the meaning of were Dynion and Merched....can you guess which particular public buildings are signed as such?
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Concerning loos -- "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" respectively, I believe.

Long ago in North Wales, I kept seeing signpost-like devices which read (at least approx. -- spelling from memory) Llwybr Cyhoeddus. Found self wondering about this village to which -- rather after the fashion of Rome -- everything seemed to lead. Discovered finally, that it's the Welsh for "public footpath".
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Plumstead in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Little and Lessness.
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Buried at Plumstead is William Bennet (1746 -- 1820), Anglican Bishop of the diocese of Cloyne in Ireland. Cloyne, Co. Cork -- some fifteen miles east of Cork city -- is, though a relatively obscure village, the seat of both a Church of Ireland (Anglican) diocese; and a Catholic one.
 
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Abernethy has a pub called the Crees Inn. Newtown Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, has the very-similarly-named Cree Inn.
 
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