The extensive Balmacara crofting estate was preserved as from 1946 by the owner, Lady Hamilton (this one not Lord Nelson's "bit on the side" !) donating it to the National Trust for Scotland. Another, maybe better-known, NT for S property: is Falkland Palace, historic residence of the Scottish kings -- at Falkland, Fife.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of King James II.
Kirkcudbright is associated with a "humorous-legend" member of the brute creation: the Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, celebrated in the song with that title. Far to the south -- Langport, Somerset, has a counterpart, told of in the wassail song: "The girt dog of Langport, he burnt his long tail".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Muchelney in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Pitney.
With Muchelney being located in the low-lying part of Somerset -- Sedgemoor, etc., being close by; there are held there every summer, the Lowland Games : described as a light-hearted adaptation of what is a household word -- Highland Games. (Many of the Lowland Games contests are comical / farcical.) Concerning serious Highland Games, Scottish type: what is generally reckoned the world's biggest event of the kind is -- taking place every August -- the Cowal Highland Gathering at Dunoon, Argyll and Bute.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stromeferry in the Highland region was also the scene of a 19th century Sabbatarian confrontation in a Scottish port area.
Various ferry-related logistical and operational oddities have caused there to have been in recent years, a road sign at the Stromeferry turn-off, reading "Strome Ferry -- No Ferry". Fun is had with this paradox, in the novel Complicity by the prolific, largely science-fiction, author Iain Banks (1954 -- 2013; born in Dunfermline, Fife).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liphook in Hampshire also has an Amateur Dramatic Society.
During both World Wars, many Canadian troops were, while in Britain, stationed at or near Liphook. So far as is known, they seem to have been passably happy, allowing for the circumstances. Not so with compatriots of theirs accommodated at Kinmel Camp -- near Kinmel Bay, now in Conwy County Borough -- in 1919. There was in that year, a notorious riot on the part of fed-up Canadian troops who were there, and greatly wishful of being demobilised and allowed to go home.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire is also a settlement that is served by the M&H Coaches 45 bus service.
EbbwJunction1
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A notable building in Bodelwyddan is the Marble Church church (properly known as St Margaret's), built in the 1850s by the English architect John Gibson (1817 – 1892). Another of his designs was the Town Hall at Todmorden, West Yorkshire, which opened in 1875.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wadsworth in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Todmorden Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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Wadsworth is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire. It was, until 1974, part of Hepton Rural District, which included four civil parishes, another of which was Blackshaw.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colden in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.
EbbwJunction1
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Colden is on the route of the Calderdale Way, a circular 50-mile long-distance footpath in West Yorkshire. The official start is at Clay House in the village of West Vale.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire was also affected by the Boxing Day floods of 2015.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ellington in Northumberland is also a settlement that had historical coal mining workings in seams that extended at working depths under the sea.
D6130
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Norham in Northumberland also has the ruins of a large Norman castle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Birgham in Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the River Tweed.
EbbwJunction1
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Birgham stands on the A698, which runs between Hawick and Tweedmouth, passing through the village of Cornhill-on-Tweed.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Duddo in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union.
Duddo used to have a church dedicated to St. James the Great -- superseded in 1879 after a rather short "working life" (not quite fifty years) by the present All Saints' Church. Kilkhampton, Cornwall -- near Bude -- also (and still) has a church dedicated to St. James the Great.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marhamchurch in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Stratton.
Marhamchurch is named after St. Morwenna. Rather delightful discovery just made: according to lore, Morwenna was one of the 24 children of St. Brychan, a 5th-century Welsh saint and king -- dare I say, a good deal more reproductive than the general run of saints... Brychan was apparently king of, appropriately, Brycheinog = Brecknockshire; he is, again appropriately, commemorated in a stained-glass window of a church in Brecon, Powys.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pontymoile in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
There is in Pontymoile -- with its being a suburb of Pontypool -- an entrance to Pontypool Park. The gates at this entrance are intricately wrought and ornamented, and known locally as the Sally Gates. It would appear that this name stems from a somewhat complex 19th-century tale involving the Hanbury family, for whom the gates were made, for the entrance to what were then the grounds of their mansion; and the ducal family of Marlborough, especially the then Duchess -- whom, re her involvement here, the locals rather cheekily called "Sally". Am using this name as an associative link with an area of Ireland. There is in eastern County Donegal, a hamlet or "townland" called Sallybrook: part of a district centring on the village of Newtown Cunningham, Co. Donegal; situated roughly halfway between Letterkenny and (London)derry.
DerekC
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Whooper swans, said to be the heaviest flighted birds, winter at Blanket Nook near Newton Cunningham. Another wintering location in the British Isles used by them is Inner Marsh Farm nature reserve near Burton, Cheshire.