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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirksworth.

 

[Calthrop]

Turnditch, Derbyshire, also lies on the A517 road.

 

[DerekC]

Turnditch has a pub with the relatively unusual name of the Tiger Inn. There are, however, several others in England. The nearest to me is, I think, the Tiger Inn at Stowting in Kent. Rather far for a quick pint, however!

 

[Calthrop]

There is a mound at Stowting which is reckoned to be the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle -- a fine example thereof. Similarly endowed, is Launceston, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quethiock in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of East.

 

[Calthrop]

Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. Hugh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spalding in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[Calthrop]

The Swiss / French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on a visit to England, stayed in 1767 at the White Hart Inn, Spalding. His contemporary, fellow-French-language "Enlightenment" figure, and largely kindred spirit, Voltaire: had a sojourn in England, where he dwelt chiefly in Wandsworth, Greater London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lambeth was another London area that once was administered by the medieval Hundred of Brixton.

 

[D6130]

The Imperial War Museum is located in Lambeth, but they have another site in Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bacup in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Calthrop]

A thing which I have used in part, in the past (re the Scottish element) -- Bacup's coat of arms features assorted fauna, including a squirrel. The coat of arms of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, has as supporters a pair of squirrels (as depicted, they look to me more like rabbits, but with long bushy tails !).

 

[D6130]

Girvan in Ayrshire also has a whisky distillery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Filey in North Yorkshire has also hosted a folk music festival.

 

[D6130]

Bognor Regis in West Sussex was also the location of a Butlin's holiday camp.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mobberley in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.

 

[D6130]

Congleton in Cheshire East also has a micro-brewery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlewich in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Dane.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki often gives good value re arcane clerical stuff -- making verbatim quoting, hard to resist. Born in Middlewich, was Theophilus Lindsey (1723 -- 1808), "who inspired the Feathers Tavern Petition against clerical subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles, and so helped start one of the most profound debates within the Church of England in the 18th century". It seems that we are not told the whereabouts of the Feathers Tavern concerned; however, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire (halfway between Nottingham and Derby) has a hostelry of that name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bramcote in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Shardlow Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Shalbourne, Wiltshire -- a little way south-west of Hungerford -- also has a church dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inkpen in Berkshire was also once administered by the large-size Hundred of Kintbury-Eagle.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a degree of rivalry between hills, not far from each other, in the Berkshire Downs: as to which is the highest point in south-east England. Contenders -- both at any rate closely approaching 1,000 feet above sea level -- are Inkpen Beacon; and Walbury Hill, near the village of Combe -- also (just) in Berkshire, a couple of miles south of Inkpen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridport in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

The satirical novelist Tom Sharpe -- his most acclaimed mockeries directed at South Africa; and Cambridge University -- lived for a while in Bridport. Part of Sharpe's schooldays were spent at Bloxham School, Bloxham, Oxfordshire -- a few miles south-west of Banbury.

 

[Springs Branch]

Luxury sports car manufacturer Aston Martin had a factory at Bloxham for a time, where their DB7 model was built.

Aston Martin's largest current production facility by area is in St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colwinston in the Vale of Glamorgan was also once administered by the Hundred of Ogmore.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ammanford in Carmarthenshire also had a branch of the Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites, a Welsh language friendly society.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystradgynlais in Powys has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[John Griffiths]

The legendary outlaw Twm Sion Cati, who is believed to have used the Dan yr Of caves at Ystradgynlais as a hideout, was born in or in the vicinity of Tregaron, Ceredigion.