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Camberwell in South London was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.
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EbbwJunction1
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Detective Inspector Jonathan "Jack" Whicher, who was born in 1814 in Camberwell was an English police detective and one of the original eight members of London's newly formed Detective Branch, which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842. During his career, Whicher earned a reputation among the finest in Europe. In 1860, he was involved in investigating the Constance Kent murder case (the murder of 3-year-old Francis Saville Kent) in the village of Rode (then in Wiltshire).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marston Bigot in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Frome.
EbbwJunction1
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Marston Bigot Park encompasses approximately 222 hectares and includes Marston House, Marston Pond and the remains of the medieval shrunken village of Lower Marston. The garden at Marston House is listed Grade II in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. They were laid out by the English gardener and garden designer Stephen Switzer (1682–1745) between 1724 and 1745. He is also credited with the landscaping of Leeswood Hall, a country house in Leeswood, Flintshire for Sir George Wynne in the 1720s.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanasa in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Holywell Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ysceifiog in Flintshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Rhuddlan.
Springs Branch
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Bagendon in Gloucestershire is another village where Roman-era brooches have been discovered.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret
EbbwJunction1
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St Margaret's Church, Bodelwyddan is nicknamed The Marble Church and is a Decorated Gothic Style parish church designed by the English architect John Gibson (1817 – 1892). Another of his works was St. Mary's Church in Bersham, which opened in January 1876.
EbbwJunction1
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Knighton includes a preserved section of Offa's Dyke. The parallel Wat's Dyke is a few miles to the east and runs north and south along the English / Welsh border from Basingwerk Abbey near Holywell to Oswestry.
In times past, Holywell was a centre for factories and works involving "doings with copper" -- including copper sheathing for Royal Navy warships. Commemorating this, two copper plates from Nelson's H.M.S. Victory are in Greenfield Park Heritage Museum at Holywell. The "full ship" concerned, is of course preserved at Portsmouth, in the Historic Dockyard there.
EbbwJunction1
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Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, 2nd Baronet (1867 – 1949), was an English architect and designer who specialised in ecclesiastical buildings. He carried out the refurbishments of several cathedrals (including the Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral and the design and build of over a dozen new churches. One of the latter, but with the same name, is St Thomas of Canterbury's Church, Camelford, Cornwall.
The names of Camelford, and the River Camel on which it is situated; are nothing to do with "ships of the desert". The river's name is from the Cornish kammel = crooked, "cockeyed". (The town's Cornish name is Reskammel: from rys = ford, plus Kammel.) A similar derivation but from a different "old tongue", applies to Wrangle, Lincolnshire (nine miles north-east of Boston): from the Scandinavian vrangr = bent, crooked; referring to a long-vanished local stream.
EbbwJunction1
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The parish church at Wrangle is dedicated to St Mary and St. Nicholas, and was built in the Perpendicular style of the 12th century. It was restored by Ewan Christian (1814–1895) between 1875 and 1878. He had a long career, which began when he produced the winning design in the competition for St. John the Evangelist Church, Hildenborough, Kent, which was completed in 1844.
Hildenborough had until recently -- it has lately closed -- a pub called the Cock Horse. This form of words is also associated, in a different context, with Banbury (Oxfordshire). I discover that "cock horse" can have a variety of meanings -- a high-spirited horse; an additional one to assist haulage of vehicles uphill; or a kids' hobby-, or otherwise-pretend-, horse.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sibford Ferris in Oxfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Banbury Poor Law Union,
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Colliers Wood in SW London also shares part of its name with a leading character in the sitcoms The Likely Lads/Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Earlsfield in the London Borough of Wandsworth also lies on the line of the River Wandle.
EbbwJunction1
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St Andrew's Church, Earlsfield was built in two stages between 1888 and 1902, to the designs of the English architect Edward William Mountford (1855 – 1908). Edward Mountford began his career by designing the Ellen Badger Community NHS Hospital in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, which was built in 1896.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oddingley in Worcestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Oswaldslow.
Oddingley; and Peasenhall, Suffolk (near Saxmundham); have each been the scene of a gruesome murder -- one of these events happening about a century earlier than the other -- both murders attended by a fair degree of mystery and uncertainty: a particular person in each case suspected of being the perpetrator, but without certainty. The victim at Oddingley, in 1806, was the village parson; that at Peasenhall, in 1902, was a domestic servant.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Uggeshall in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.
EbbwJunction1
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The Scottish Architect Sir Basil Urwin Spence OM OBE RA died in 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk on 19th November 1976 and was buried at Thornham Parva.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Occold in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Hartismere.
EbbwJunction1
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There's not a lot about Occold on Mr W Pedia's encyclopdeia, but let's say this: The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, Occold is part of the Eye Benefice together with St Peter and St Paul, Eye with Braiseworth and St Mary's Bedingfield in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
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The poetical illustration The Coleraine Salmon Leap by the English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 – 1838) (better known by her initials LEL) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book 1836, refers to an abundance of salmon in the river here in those times, and to a considerable sport derived therefrom. LEL doesn't seem to have had many connections with Coleraine - or even Ireland - as she was born in Chelsea and died in Ghana.