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Xenophon PCDGS
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Berechurch in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Colchester Por Law Union.
D6130
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The international headquarters and main factory of JCB excavators is situated in Rocester. The company was founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford (1916-2001), who was born in nearby Uttoxeter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gratwich in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Uttoxeter Poor Law Union.
Alfred Ronalds (1802 -- 60), author, artisan, and enthusiastic angler, lived for a dozen-odd years in the 1830s/40s at Gratwich: where he wrote what is described as "his renowned book The Fly-Fisher's Entomology" (new to me; but I've never been "into" things piscatorial). He and family lived subsequently for a time in Llanelwedd, Powys (near Builth Wells); after which, emigrated to Australia.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandogo in Monmouthshire also lies of the line of the River Wye.
Bristol has a venerable pub called the Llandoger Trow -- after a type of flat-bottomed barge taking its name from Llandogo, where such craft were built; and traded between there and Bristol. There is a parallel situation concerning settlements on Great Britain's opposite coast: involving the pub in Great Yarmouth called the Barking Smack -- reference to fishing boats from Barking, now in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, once a fishing port in its own right.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rendlesham in Suffolk was also badly affected by the Great Plague of 664.
In past centuries, Rendlesham's local magnates were the Thellusson family; a succession of senior males whereof, had the rank of Baron Rendlesham. The first Baron was Peter Thellusson (1761 -- 1808): a merchant, banker, and politician; who was during his career, MP for a succession of constituencies, including Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Doulton in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Aldhelm.
This settlement is more commonly known by the name of Doulting. It is associated with the poet John Edmund Reade (1800 -- 1870), who attended school at Doulting. Reade is generally reckoned to have been not without merit as a poet; but with a strong tendency toward, in much of his work, plagiarism of the output of more famous and talented poetic contemporaries. A certain similarity can be seen here, with another not-first-rank poet of a generation or two earlier -- Thomas Chatterton (born in Bristol): whose short, turbulent and tragic life ran from 1752 to his suicide in 1770. Chatterton, also, is noted for a tendency to doings which are considered "dodgy" by the ethics of his craft -- in his case: rather than plagiarism, outright falsification and forgery.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Some of my posting researches do tend to use arcane material, unfortunately...
D6130
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Chester also has a shot tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Epsom also has a noted racecourse.
D6130
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Lindley, near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, also has a prominent clock tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkburton in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.
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Blackford in Perth & Kinross, Scotland, is another location where naturally-occuring high-quality spring water is captured and bottled for commercial sale.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bridge of Allan in Stirling Council Area also lies on the line of the Allan Water.
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Horwich in Greater Manchester also has a microbrewery.
I tend to go, in this game, for town-twinning matters: as we know, these usually concern settlements "home and abroad"; but in 1990, Horwich and Crowborough, East Sussex, became the first towns within the UK to sign a mutual town-twinning charter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Grassington in North Yorkshire also holds a monthly Farmer's Market.
The Old Hall at Grassington, dating from the late 13th or early 14th century, is reputedly the oldest house in Yorkshire. Down south in Oxfordshire, the old manor house in Benson, near Wallingford -- original part built in 1120 -- is said to be the oldest building in its county.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shillingford in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ewelme.
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Chertsey in Surrey is also on the course of the River Thames.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pyrford in Surrey was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Godley.
There was in Pyrford, from its opening in 1928 to closure in 1992, the renowned Rowley Bristow orthopaedic hospital. The "Bristow" part of the name brings to mind, the most famous creation -- Bristow the clerk, a sort of British Walter Mitty-equivalent -- of the cartoonist Frank Dickens (1931 -- 2016). Frank Dickens was born in Hornsey, London Borough of Haringey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clerkenwell in the central London area was also once administered by the Finsbury Division of the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.
Further concerning artistic creators of various kinds, named Dickens: Clerkenwell features in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (Clerkenwell Green is selected by Fagin and the Artful Dodger, as a spot for tuition for Oliver in picking pockets). In one of this author's occasional ventures outside the London area, some scenes in David Copperfield take place in "Blunderstone", Suffolk -- a thinly-disguised version of Blundeston in that county -- a little way north of Lowestoft. (One gathers that Blundeston has got enthusiastically into "milking" this Dickens connection.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkley in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland.