Xenophon PCDGS
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Great Amwell in Hertfordshire also lies on the line of the River Lea.
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johnnychips
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Izaak Walton, who wrote The Compleat Angler, once lived in Great Amwell. He is associated with Dovedale in Derbyshire. However, the nearest village to the Izaak Walton Hotel in Dovedale seems to be Ilam, Staffordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Snelston in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the wide-covering area of the Ashbourne Poor Law Union.
Lurgan. Co. Armagh, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter. A little bit of Wiki strangeness: the entry re Snelston includes the words, re its parish church of St. Peter: "It is one of the few churches to have had dances regularly held on the roof." Just that ...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lisburn in County Antrim also has historical links to the linen trade.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dundee also has a Sikh Gurdwara.
"Pushing the envelope" a bit -- Glasgow is another Scottish city: whose name is the second word, of that of a male person of some renown (one fictional, one real). With Dundee, it is of course the celebrated "Crocodile"; with Glasgow: R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1901 -- 65): cricketer, and writer for newspapers, chiefly on the subject of cricket -- a humorist, but a troubled soul.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Greenock in Inverclyde also lies on the line of the River Clyde.
D6130
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Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire was also once a major centre of the shipbuilding industry.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Musselburgh in East Lothian also became a Police Burgh in the 19th century.
Getting far-fetched again -- Scottish places with shellfish-associatable names: near Bridge of Muchalls, Aberdeenshire (by the coast, a little way north of Stonehaven) is the location named Limpet Mill -- a one-time meal mill (now a ruin) driven by the Limpet Burn. (Incidentally, there was here -- briefly, and long ago -- a station named Limpet Mill, on the main line to Aberdeen.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gillybrands & Newtownhill in Kincardine also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as the Causey Mounth.
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Once again, getting a bit frantic and with, seemingly, little info on which to work: there would seem to be a bit of nomenclatorial confusion hereabouts. Newtownhill and adjacent Gillybrands would appear to be in the parish of Kirktown of Fetteresso, just west of Stonehaven; whereas there is a Newtonhill (no second "w") half-a-dozen miles approximately north, by the North Sea coast (and once again, the main rail line). "The whole boiling of" these places, are on or just by-passed by, the A90 road: which near its southern extremity (trying to get us right out of the Aberdeen / Kincardine area
!) passes close by Kinfauns, Perth and Kinross.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Gogarloch in the South Gyle area is another settlement where a loch area was drained.
(At Gogarloch, it was the land area was used in railway construction, but at Kinfauns, it was because the land area under the loch was required for agricultural use).
(At Gogarloch, it was the land area was used in railway construction, but at Kinfauns, it was because the land area under the loch was required for agricultural use).
D6130
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Gogarloch is located quite close to Edinburgh Zoo (to which I've recently been). Upton-by-Chester (just north of Chester, as the name would suggest) is also located close to its city's zoo.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Settle in North Yorkshire also has a church who name commemorates the Holy Ascension.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I was on the same year as Mike Harding at St Bede's College, Manchester, commencing there in the Autumn term in 1956 in the Upper Third.. I was in the "Classics" stream and he was in the "Moderns" stream.
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Oldham is another town connected with the Lancashire cotton industry.
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Oldham is another town connected with the Lancashire cotton industry.
The only similar "boast" that I can make: is having been at the same university / same time, as June Tabor -- renowned on the "folk" scene and, I gather, still going strong thereon. I saw and listened to her, and hopelessly "fancied" her (far out of my league; we only ever exchanged a couple of sentences).
With me -- if in doubt, "twinnings": the Borough of Gravesham, Kent -- chief town, Gravesend -- is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Schleswig-Holstein. Oldham's "twin" is Geesthacht; that of the Kentish entity, is Neumuenster.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llangefni in Anglesey also has a clock tower.
I learn that Llangefni is Anglesey's county town -- a bit unexpectedly; had imagined that it would be Holyhead. Another counter-intuitive county town is Winchester, county thereof, Hampshire -- language-wise, one might have thought "Southampton"; but, "who expects things to make sense?"
Xenophon PCDGS
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Windsor in Berkshire also once had a medieval period leper hospital.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yarnbrook in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Bliss.
Yarnbrook has a pub called the Longs Arms and Hungry Horse. The Hungry Horse pub chain, is a far-reaching one in England -- Worle, Somerset (suburb of Weston-Super-Mare) has such a hostelry, called the Hungry Horse Super Mare West Wick, Worle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Compton Bishop in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Winterstoke.
D6130
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Hapton in Lancashire is also situated on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.