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Oxford also has an elephant on its city coat of arms.
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DerekC
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Punting is a form of boating generally thought to be peculiar to Oxford (and Cambridge). However you can punt in various other places including the River Wear at Durham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colby in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.
D6130
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Braddan (Isle of Man) is also located on the IOM TT circuit.
Braddan is an administrative area, rather than a settlement in its own right (@D6130: not quarrelling with you, only justifying where I go on to from here) -- Union Mills in Braddan, has a Railway Inn. Docking, Norfolk, has a hostelry with the same name (in both cases, the associated railway -- with its station for the settlement -- long abandoned).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pembroke also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
D6130
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Kidwelly/Cydweli in Carmarthenshire also has a large ruined castle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pontyberem in Carmarthenshire also lies on the line of the River Gwendraeth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanhilleth in Blaenau Gwent also has a church that is dedicated to St Illtyd.
DerekC
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The Whiteway Colony in Miserden was a community which followed the beliefs of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, in pursuing Christian pacifism in all circumstances. The community remains but seems no longer to be a centre of belief. A similar community at Stapleton in North Yorkshire still pursues the original philisophy.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ingleby Barwick in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Tees.
Springs Branch
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Brisley in Norfolk was also the site of a crash by a Bristol Blenheim bomber during WW2.
"A tale of insects" -- Brisley's name is reckoned to be derived from the Old English for a glade or clearing with a multitude of gadflies. Something which only a scholar of Old English would be likely to know... in the main, as we're aware: if a settlement's name (unlike Brisley) looks as though it's to do with anything in "the brute creation"; it probably in fact isn't. For instance, re Buxworth, Derbyshire (near Whaley Bridge) -- formerly Bugsworth -- in the early 20th century some residents of the village seem to have been unaware of this tendency; they came to dislike the name, imagining associations with noxious insects. In fact, the name was from the Old English "Bucga's Worth" -- enclosure of the chieftain Bucga. We learn that the anti-"Bugsworth" movement was championed by the local vicar and the village school headmaster -- the village was officially renamed "Buxworth" w.e.f. 16 / 4 / 1930. (Local folk, however, still generally refer to it as "Buggy".)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bridgemont in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Peak Forest Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Higham Gobion in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Flitt.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Grantchester in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Cam.
One of the works of the satirical novelist Tom Sharpe (1928 -- 2013) is the novel Grantchester Grind: its setting Cambridge University, where Sharpe had studied. Sharpe's ashes are buried in the churchyard at Thockrington, Northumberland (ten miles north of Hexham), where his father had been a minister of religion.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aviemore in the Highland region also has a church that is dedicated to St Aidan.
D6130
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Buxton in Derbyshire also has a commercial mineral water bottling plant.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wormhill in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Poor Law Union.
I can't resist wolves, and their reputed extirpation in the wild. A variety of stories re said extirpation in the British Isles: concerning England and Wales, this is reckoned late Middle Ages at the latest -- they lasted longer in Scotland and Ireland. Numerous rival accounts, re slaying of last wolf in England: one tells of that event, at Wormhill in the late 14th century. One of the many alternatives, places the event in a corner of northern England which seems to see much "action" in this game: the stretch between Morecambe Bay and the Leven estuary. This version tells of the last wolf's meeting its end in 1390 (roughly contemporary with the Wormhill story); per this one, at Humphrey Head Point, near Kents Bank, Cumbria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mansriggs in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ulverston Poor Law Union.
Close to Mansriggs, on the way towards Ulverston: is the Sir John Barrow Monument (locally widely known as the Hoad Monument): a 100-ft.-high tower on a hilltop, commemorating Ulverston-born Sir John Barrow (1764 -- 1848): geographer, linguist, writer, and Admiralty high official -- renowned especially as a keen promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery. In his youth, Barrow worked briefly in a clerical capacity at an iron foundry in Liverpool.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ince Blundell in Merseyside was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Derby Poor Law Union.