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In the weird-saints department, again -- Amroth has a church dedicated to St. Elidyr. This saint would seem to be a Pembrokeshire speciality: there's another church dedicated to him? her? at the settlement a couple of miles south of Pembroke town, of Carew Cheriton aka Stackpole Elidor -- now pick the bones out of those, fellow-participants :E !
 
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If I have things rightly, Llanteglos is alternatively known as Llanteg. One understands that planning permission is being applied for there, for an eco-tourism visitor attraction, to be titled Butterfly Haven -- featuring butterflies, and other fauna, from many parts of the world. Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire: already has in operation, such a set-up -- called the Butterfly Farm.
 

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The small town of Preesall, Lancashire, also has a punning Latin town motto. That of Kendal -- formerly a centre for weaving woollen goods -- is Pannus Mihi Panis : "cloth is my bread". That of Preesall -- (the name "geographic", from Old Norse); town having been in the business of salt-extraction: Prae Salem Notanda : "famous for salt".
 

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Whaley Thorns, Derbyshire -- north of Mansfield -- also has a name which begins with that of a marine-mammal species.
 
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Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, also lies on the walking and cycle route the Taff Trail, between Brecon and Cardiff Bay. (While I know that the Trail is named after the river; I fall prey to the temptation to imagine, naughtily, zealous Welsh patriots objecting to the name -- seeing implications re "Taff", of the arrogant English regarding it as a recreational route through the lands of inferior Celtic "lesser breeds" <D .)
 

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Googling for associations re this game, turns out as an abundant source of stuff on various literary / poetic types seemingly of note: of whom I'd never heard before. This post, a case in point: turns out that buried in Llansantffraed's churchyard is the poet Henry Vaughan (1621 -- 95), a local man -- hitherto unknown to me. The article went on to tell of several poets of more modern times, inspired to poetic effusions by visits to Vaughan's grave: three totally unknown to me; and Siegfried Sassoon. This chap, 1886 -- 1967 (best known as a First World War poet, and disagree-er with that whole business, although he was in the British Army in it) has been useful to me before, in the game. In youth, he was a pupil at the renowned public school of Marlborough, Wiltshire.
 

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Broad Hinton's church is dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula -- we learn that there are only fifteen churches in England with that precise dedication: by my count, seven of these (including Broad Hinton's) have featured so far, on "Settlement Association"; hereby submitting an eighth, that of Tibberton, Worcestershire -- a short way north-east of Worcester.
 

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The Worcester and Birmingham Canal passes very close to Tibberton village. A few miles further north it passes through the parish of Hadzor, Worcestershire

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The Worcester and Birmingham Canal passes very close to Tibberton village. A few miles further north it passes through the parish of Hazdor, Worcestershire
Three hours of hither and thither delving into my library archive sources did not reveleal a settlement with that name.

In the same county of Worcestershire, there is a settlement called Hadzor.
 

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Fairly copious info found, about the spiritual lives and developments therein, of the Galtons of Hadzor House in the 1860s / 70s; including their getting periodic ministration by a Catholic priest from Broadway, Worcestershire (which settlement is known to "us types", a propos another subject).
 

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There has been as of some years past at Upton Snodsbury, a -- roughly annual -- music festival, to raise money to keep open the village's Parish Park: said event, bearing the name of "SnodFest". Another annual music festival with a somewhat grotesque name, is "Bearded Theory" -- which takes place at Catton Park near Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire (a little way south of Burton-on-Trent).
 

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Filming for the TV comedy series Lovejoy (lovable-rogue antiques dealer, East Anglia his field of operation) also took place in Coggeshall, Essex.
 

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Arthur Halestrap (1898 -- 2004), one of the last surviving British World War I soldiers, lived latterly near Black Notley. A rival-for-longevity British-born veteran of that war was Claude Choules (1901 -- 2011), who served in the Royal Navy from 1915. He was born in Pershore, Worcestershire.
 

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The area surrounding Pershore is noted for the production of plums....in fact ISTR that the old Great Western Railway once had a steam locomotive named 'Pershore Plum'! However, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany's Plum Demonstration Centre is located at East Malling in Kent.
 

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Pardon asked for getting rather facetious -- Warblington's name is, it appears, nothing to do with songbirds: reckoned to be from the Old English tun = farm, prefixed with name of Anglo-Saxon bod beginning approx. "Waerbl..." .
The same goes for Cawston, Norfolk (roughly half-way between Norwich and Holt) -- not about crow noises; comes from Old English: tun again, prefixed with name of A-S worthy called Kalfr.
 

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