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[Calthrop]

Widford, Hertfordshire -- some 25 miles west-north-west of Mountnessing -- lies not on the River Wid; but on the River Ash. (Widford's name reckoned to come from Old English wid = willow tree, plus "ford".) "Go figure", as they say in America !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camborne in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[D6130]

Camborne has a noted school of mining. However, the Royal School of mining is located in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a noted Science Museum.

 

[D6130]

Cardiff is also the capital city of a devolved UK nation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold in Flintshire also has a Crown Court.

 

[Calthrop]

Mold holds an annual Food and Drink Festival. Porthleven, Cornwall -- near Helston -- holds an annual Food Festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manaccan in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Helston Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

For a long spell, the vicar of Manaccan -- an "absentee" one for much of that time, and disliked by the locals presumably for that reason -- was Richard Polwhele (1760 -- 1838): clergyman and poet, renowned for his eccentricities. Another eccentric Cornish vicar / poet, was Robert Stephen Hawker (1803 -- 1875), for long vicar of Morwenstow, at Cornwall's northern extremity. Among Hawker's oddities were dressing up as a mermaid; and excommunicating his cat for catching mice on Sundays.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poughill in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Stratton.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Poughill some forty miles to the east, in neighbouring Devon (near Crediton). We learn that the Cornish Poughill is pronounced "Poffil" or Puffil"; the Devon one, "Po-il".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldbourne in Wiltshire also has a Grade I listed parish church that is dedicated to St Mchael.

 

[Calthrop]

The people of Aldbourne are known as "Dabchicks" -- after the little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) -- odd -- from the map, Aldbourne's environs don't look particularly watery... The sailing club of West Mersea, Essex, is titled the Dabchicks (there's a stuffed one in the clubhouse of said body).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormingford in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lexden and Winstree Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There are several -- alternatively-so -- legends in the Wormingford area, on the general theme of, in the locality in times past, slaying-of-terrorising-dragons. Longwitton, Northumberland -- north-west of Morpeth -- boasts a tale of similar long-ago doings in its neighbourhood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.

 

[Calthrop]

A little way west of Kirkwhelpington lie the couple of lakes (offering excellent fishing) called Sweethope Loughs. The word "lough" thus, for a lake, is pretty much peculiar to this northernmost corner of England; another instance thereof is Crag Lough, near Bardon Mill, Northumberland (between Hexham and Haltwhistle). The word is pronounced in this part of England, as "loff"; unlike "lough" for lake as in Ireland, where it is cognate with the Scots "loch", and pronounced the same way as the Scots word.

 

[DerekC]

Bardon Mill lies close to the section of Hadrian's Wall that runs on cliffs associated with the Great Whin Sill, a layer of the igneous rock dolerite which stretches from Teesdale nearly as far as Berwick on Tweed. The same geological formation is associated with High Force, a large waterfall on the River Tees near Bowlees, County Durham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pollards Lands in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I can't find much about Pollards Lands, other than it is an area of Bishop Auckland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Butterknowle in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Gaunless.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Butterknowle does not have a church, but the Church of St John the Evangelist is to be found in the neighbouring hamlet of Lynesack, about half a mile away.

 

[Calthrop]

I learn that Lynesack is included in the chapelry of Hamsterley, County Durham ("chapelry" is presumably some sort of administrative division -- our scholars on such things here, will no doubt know more). Hamsterley has a pub called the Cross Keys; as has Sherborne, Dorset.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sherborne Abbey was heavily restored by the Victorian architect Richard Cromwell (R C) Carpenter (1812 – 1855) in 1850, when he added the two lower rows of lights in the west window, and the "somewhat fanciful" neo-Norman upper storey of the porch, which formerly had 15th-century windows. Another church designed by him is the Church of St Nicholas at Kemerton in Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxenton in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Tewkesbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Fauldhouse, West Lothian, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fauldhouse United FC are the local football club, who now play in the Third Division of the East of Scotland Football League (EoSFL). Another team in that division are Harthill Royal FC, who are based in the Greenrigg area of Harthill, West Lothian.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Greenrigg is Polkemmet Country Park; which features the Scottish Owl Centre, claiming to have the largest collection of owls in the world. A little way east of Newport, Isle of Wight, is the Owl and Monkey Haven: nowadays more usually calling self Monkey Haven, and focusing chiefly on monkeys; but it also has a selection of owls.

 

[A0]

Staying on the monkey theme, there is Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milwich in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stone Poor Law Union.