John Griffiths
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Lancaster has a pub called The Yorkshire House. There was until recently a pub called The Lancashire House, not, alas, in York but in Newtown in the parish of Santon, Isle of Man.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Caul Bourne.
Shalfleet's New Inn -- dating from the 18th century -- serves excellent food, both "traditional" and more exotic. Cowes, I.O.W., has a Basque / Spanish restaurant which is very well-spoken-of; I haven't actually tried it (prices are eye-watering).
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Newport on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Medina.
I feel that this is not very inspired: but Newport is probably the British Isles' most-frequently-occurring place name; especially with the assorted "Newports-with-suffixes". The most far-flung "Newport pure and simple" could be reckoned to be Newport, Co. Mayo.
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Corsham in Wiltshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.
If one likes peacocks, Corsham is a good place to visit: a small flock of the birds are kept at the stately home of Corsham Court, in the town centre -- they freely roam the town's streets. We learn that there is a less happy peacock-related situation in Ushaw Moor, County Durham -- just west of Durham city. The settlement is frequented by quite numerous peacocks: regarded by many residents, as a definite pest -- seemingly "it is not known where they come from".
John Griffiths
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Ushaw Moor was the site of a Catholic seminary (the impressive nineteenth century buildings remain; training of priests ordinands stopped in 2011). New Oscott in Birmingham is the location of the still-active St Mary's seminary.
New Oscott has a pub called the Beggars Bush -- name applied also to adjacent many-routes bus stop, and similarly adjacent large Tesco supermarket (which I quite often patronise). There is also a pub named the Beggars Bush, in the Dublin neighbourhood of Ballsbridge.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rathgar in County Dublin also lies on the line of the River Dodder.
One of those literary bods who seem to have kept popping up in a great variety of places in the British Isles -- and frequently occur in this game -- is Bram Stoker; he lived for a while in Rathgar. He also spent time in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire -- some way south of Peterhead. A couple of novels by Stoker -- less famous than "the D-one" -- are set in the Cruden Bay area.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Pipton in Powys also has a long barrow within its environs.
The Treaty of Pipton, signed in 1265, centred essentially on English and Welsh parties coming to an agreement; to do with the minor civil war at that time, involving both countries, and dynastic factions. Somewhat later in history, another treaty ending a period of armed conflict concerning England and a Celtic neighbour country: marked the finish of the war between England and Scotland, 1543 -- 51, known as the "Rough Wooing" (Henry VIII taking drastic measures to try to effect a marriage between his young son Edward; and the child Mary Queen of Scots -- the marriage never happened). This was the Treaty of Norham, Northumberland -- south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, very near the border.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kyloe in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union.
Something which gets me in old-and-grumpy mode: ghastly "portmanteau" words clearly dreamt-up by ad-men -- especially when meant to sound all outdoorsy and bracing, and "edgy" as well. Re Kyloe, have just discovered (Net entry aimed at country-loving visitors thereto) a new-to-me horror of this kind -- a walking route starting from the hills at the back of Kyloe, finishing on Lindisfarne (Holy Island): thus called a "hillgrimage". Ugh ! Another pet hate of mine of this sort, is "coasteering" (semingly an illegitimate offspring of a word already hated by me, "orienteering"): means travelling along a rocky shoreline entirely on foot or by swimming (no mechanical aids). It seems that a prominent area for the practising of this abomination, is Pembrokeshire: with several outfits purveying the experience, based in Haverfordwest -- important settlement thereabouts, though not itself on the coast.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marloes in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Roose.
On the peninsula west of Marloes is -- context of natural beauties which visitors may explore -- what is described as an open-access deer park. Per Wiki, this same has never actually contained deer: as my old biology teacher would have said, "hence the name". A parallel in Cornwall, near Herodsfoot (a little way south-west of Liskeard) is Deer Park Forest -- now a country-holidaying venue; understood, once again, never to have harboured deer: the English expression traditionally, for park-like areas such as used for hunting deer -- but not necessarily ever to have played host to deer, or for the beasts to be hunted therein.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pentewan in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Pentewan had until recently, a pub called the Hawkins Arms -- now converted into a guest house. Aston -- district of Birmingham -- used to have an establishment called Hawkins's Fish Bar, which specialised in jellied eels (which I'd thought was a horror peculiar to London; but clearly, it got further afield).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Solihull in the West Midlands was also was administered by the Hundred of Hemlingford.
Solihull has a rarity: a pillar-box of the variety (introduced in the 1850s) with fluted sides, still in Royal Mail use today. There are now in England, only twelve operational pillar-boxes of this kind. Another of them can be found at Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire. Solihull's specimen has a horizontal posting-slit; Milford's, a vertical one.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberdeen also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.
Bridgnorth, Shropshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Puy-de-Dome. Aberdeen's "twin" is Clermont-Ferrand; Bridgnorth's is Thiers. (One wonders whether here, Aberdeen works on the same principle as the English town which deliberately selects communities abroad as unlike it as possible, to "twin" with. You can hardly get further from the sea in France, than Clermont-Ferrand.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wormbridge in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of South Bradford.
Much land in and around Wormbridge is owned by a distant relative, two generations on; of that -- whatever else -- colourful character Francis Aungier Pakenham: Lord Longford (1905 -- 2001). The Pakenham family were, historically, Earls of Longford, Republic of Ireland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ballinalee in County Longford also lies on the line of the River Camlin.
Ballinalee has the alternative name of Saint Johnstown. A parallel here with Perth -- old name of which, Saint Johnstoun or similar. Something hitherto unknown to sports-ignoramus me: the football team St. Johnstone, is therefore that of Perth.