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Hexham in Northumberland also has an arts and performance venue called the Queen's Hall.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Colchester in Essex also has medieval links to the leather trade.
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Colchester was one of the settlements awarded city status in 2022 as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Bangor, County Down, also became a city at the same time.
Bangor, County Down, also became a city at the same time.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skegness in Lincolnshire also has a RNLI lifeboat station.
D6130
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Mablethorpe is another seaside resort on the Lincolnshire coast.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Appledore in Devon was another settlement chosen as a site for a Time and Tide Bell.
Hockings Ice Cream -- a brand sold only in North Devon -- is made in Appledore. Another "exclusive-and-for-the-discerning" ice cream brand is Marshfield Farm, produced at the farm of that name: near Cold Ashton, South Gloucestershire -- a few miles north of Bath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abson in South Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Pucklechurch.
John Griffiths
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Author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) lived in Abson between 1858 and 1864, but she was a Norfolk native - born in Great Yarmouth and dying in Old Catton near Norwich.
Something that threatens to become a sort of automatic "go-to" for me; but I find this one irresistible. Bolton, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Sarthe. Old Catton's "twin" is Lavare; Bolton's is Le Mans.
John Griffiths
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Wolverhampton also has a football team whose name is suffixed 'Wanderers'.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunwich in Suffolk also had a medieval period leper hospital.
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Dunwich has been destroyed by the sea, Capel Celyn was flooded by the creation of the Llyn Celyn resevoir
Capel Celyn's name is formed of the Welsh words for "chapel" and "holly". The evergreen with the red berries is also, presumably, associated with the name of Hollybush in Worcestershire (just -- very near the borders of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire: a few miles east of Ledbury).
Xenophon PCDGS
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I understand that Dunwich is still a functioning entity and had a population of 183 in the 2011 census.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marazion in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Marazion gets a mention in a short but atmospheric poem about the seasons in Cornwall, by the Cornish poet Charles Causley (1917 -- 2003); who was born, spent most of his life, died, and is buried, in Launceston.
Here lie I, waiting for old Summer / A red face and straw-coloured hair has he; / I shall meet him on the road from Marazion / And the Mediterranean Sea.
Here lie I, waiting for old Summer / A red face and straw-coloured hair has he; / I shall meet him on the road from Marazion / And the Mediterranean Sea.
DerekC
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The name Launceston has exactly the same background etymology as that of Llansteffan in Carmarthenshire - meaning "Church of St Stephen".
D6130
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Kidwelly - not far from Llansteffan as the crow flies, but a long way by road - also has a prominent ruined castle.
@D6130, you beat me to it ! However -- bouncing back Dylan-Thomas-wise -- a character in his Under Milk Wood, is the mariner Captain Cat: master of the SS Kidwelly. Thomas is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire -- largely identified as, per real life, his fictional UMW village of Llareggub (though other Welsh settlements are seen as also adding inspiration thereto).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Login in Pembrokeshire also lies on the line of the River Taf.
(Per my info, Login is in Carmarthenshire -- border with Pembrokeshire a couple of miles to the west.) For natural-history fans, Login is a good place to observe bats of various species. One of the best spots in the UK for bats is -- perhaps a little surprisingly -- the city of Bath: they do well along the local canal / in the nearby disused underground mines and quarries / in the extensive verdant suburbs. Bath is host to fifteen of the UK's eighteen bat species.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Will my past-life Geography school howlers still keep haunting me until it is "clog-popping" time....
If it's any consolation -- I can never remember what county Olney (of Pancake Race fame), is in. (Refers) - it's in Buckinghamshire; which just feels wrong to me.Will my past-life Geography school howlers still keep haunting me until it is "clog-popping" time....
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John Griffiths
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Bath became the place to be for the creme de la creme thanks to the influence of its early eighteenth century master of ceremonies, Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762), born the son of a glass manufacturer in St Mary's Street, Swansea.
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Swansea is the second largest city in Wales; whereas Birmingham is the second largest in England.
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Bournemouth also has a Symphony Orchestra.
Bournemouth's coat of arms includes a Latin motto, Pulchritudo et Salubritas = "beauty and health". Lancaster's counterpart with its coat of arms, Luck to Loyne, might well seem at first sight to one who was not a local, to be in the Gobbledegook language. "Loyne" here, one finds, is the old form of the name of the River Lune, on which Lancaster is situated.