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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preesall in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[Calthrop]

Widford, Oxfordshire -- a little way east of Burford -- also has a church dedicated to St. Oswald.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ducklington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[Calthrop]

Marcham in Oxfordshire -- just west of Abingdon -- also lies on the A415 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyford in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ock.

 

[Calthrop]

Lyford in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ock.

Faringdon, Oxfordshire: was also in Berkshire in times past. The 1974 county-boundary alterations caused both settlements to cease to be in the latter county; and to be in the former, instead.

 

[D6130]

....whereas the identically-pronounced, but differently-spelled, Farringdon (Upper and Lower) has always been in Hampshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The Rev. Thomas Henry Sparshott (1841 -- 1927) -- a prominent 19th / early 20th century figure in the Church of England, very much on its Evangelical wing (among other things, he wrote plentifully on Christian topics), was born in one of the Hampshire Farringdons. After a decade or so of missionary work in and around East Africa, he lived and served in assorted parts of Britain. This included brief spells as a curate in several Norfolk parishes: one of them, Syderstone -- a few miles west of Fakenham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingoldisthorpe in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Docking.

 

[DerekC]

Sir William Hoste, successful frigate captain in the Napoleonic Wars, was born in Ingoldisthorpe in 1780. Serving initially as Captain's Servant to Nelson on HMS Agamemnon, he was appointed Acting Captain on HMS Mutine after the Battle of the Nile and went on to a number of successes against the French. He was knighted in 1815 and died of tuberculosis in 1828. He is commemorated by a statue in St Paul's Cathedral. However Hoste is also remembered locally as there is a hotel named after him in Burnham Market, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Creake in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Burn.

 

[Calthrop]

Sculthorpe, Norfolk -- just north-west of Fakenham -- also lies on the B1355 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodbastwick in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

The Woodforde Broadland Brewery in Woodbastwick produces cask ales with, in my opinion, would-be cutely whimsical local-flavour names. It has a counterpart in the Isle of Wight (including the for me, dubiously witty naming): Goddards Brewery, producers of several real-ale varieties -- based at Branstone, two or three miles west of Sandown.

 

[John Griffiths]

Abbeytown in Cumberland also has a school farm studies centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire also has an archery club.

 

[D6130]

The Fire Service College is located just outside Moreton-in-Marsh. However from 1954 to 2015, Scotland had a separate fire service college at Gullane (pronounced: 'Gillan') in East Lothian.

 

[John Griffiths]

Senior Scottish Office official George Pottinger owned a house named The Pelicans in Gullane, adjacent to Muirfield golf course. The house had been built for him by John Poulson, as a thank-you for contracts gained in Scotland (including construction work in the new Aviemore resort) for Poulson's architectural and building services company. Both men ended up in prison. Poulson's business empire was based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montacute in Somerset was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Cluniac Priory.

 

[Calthrop]

There is lengthy speculation in Wiki, on the derivation of Montacute's name: one theory being that in connection with the comings-and-goings of "Norman conquerors", it comes ultimately from Montaigu-les-Bois in the modern-day departement of Manche (Normandy). One feels that if Montacute and Montaigu-les-Bois are not officially "twinned", they ought to be... Taunton (Somerset), not a very great distance from Montacute, does have a twin settlement in France: Lisieux, in Manche's neighbouring departement of Calvados.

 

[D6130]

Hereford was also at one time a noted centre of commercial cider production.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham also has an Anglican cathedral.

 

[D6130]

Bishop Auckland is also situated on the River Wear.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ainderby Steeple in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ainderby's pub is named The Wellington Heifer, which I strongly suppose to be a unique name. But 'heifer' pubs are not uncommon in northern Yorkshire and adjacent areas; Stainforth, also North Yorkshire, has The Craven Heifer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

Granite is still quarried in and around Aberdeen; Penryn in Cornwall is another place where granite quarrying was important.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Germoe in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Kerrier.

 

[DerekC]

Germoe is one of the many places in England reported to be haunted by an enormous black dog. The Germoe version was apparently invented by smugglers to frighten people away from their site of operations. Trollers Gill, near Skyreholme in North Yorkshire, is one of the locations associated with the Barghest, a Yorkshire black dog capable of shape shifting so that it appears in forms varying from a man to a rabbit!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnsall in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the eastern division of the Staincliffe Wapentake.