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Likely connected with Trim's status as above: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 -- 1852) -- military leader reckoned principally responsible for the defeat of Napoleonic France, and British politician; began his parliamentary career as MP for Trim in the Irish House of Commons. One...

Builth Wells

I get the impression -- perhaps I wrong the chap there -- that Monet was a rather cross-grained and contrary individual: wonder a little, whether perhaps he actually hated trains and railways; but found them a good subject for pictures. Think I read somewhere, that there was a branch line which...

Likewise, not to be confused with the better-known Tiverton, Devon -- sorry: low blow, but irresistible.

Newbridge on Wye

Tylwch

Mollington, Cheshire West and Chester, also lies on -- or at any rate, very close by -- the A540 road.

Dolwen

Scafell Halt

Montgomery

Welshpool (1st station)

Pool Quay

Four Crosses

Pant (Salop)

Tinkers Green Halt

Whittington High Level

Welshampton

Newcastle Crossing

Gresty

Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the more southerly parts of Poland. Blackburn's "twin" is Tarnow; Newark's is Sandomierz.