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Kettlesing in North Yorkshire also has a pub named the Queen's Head.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Killinghall in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Knaresborough Poor Law Union.
One theory about the origin of Killinghall's name, enters "unexpected" category: the village called per the Domesday Book, "Chenihale": reckoned a variation of "Kennel-hall": place where the lord of the manor's hounds were kept. This explanation goes on, re its being on record that a nobleman in Yorkshire had the power granted to him by one of the Saxon kings "to keep mastiffs for chasing wolves out of their territory". Concerning allusions to the long war in the British Isles, between mankind and Canis lupus (ultimate decisive victory going to the former -- to the regret of some extreme wildlife enthusiasts): another settlement-name possibly featuring such, is that of Wolvey, Warwickshire (near Hinckley) -- reckoned that the name may come from Anglo-Saxon wulf-haeg = enclosure with a hedge to keep wolves out.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Thurlaston in Leicestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Deganwy in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llangadwaladr in Anglesey was also once administered by the Hundred of Malltraeth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Auchtergaven in Perthshire is another settlement where the tower of the parish church has collapsed during its lifetime.
The poet Robert Nicoll (1814 -- 37) was born in Auchtergaven. Near the end of his short life, in 1836, he became editor of the Leeds Times; and also a member of the provisional committee of the Leeds Working Men's Association and of the Leeds Radical Association -- one tends to infer that, rather mysteriously, he was not in Leeds for these activities: at the time, he was living in Dundee.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberford in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Skyrack Wapentake.
D6130
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Appleton Roebuck in North Yorkshire also has a disused windmill tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lillings Ambo in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the York Poor Law Union.
"Ambo" (Latin for "both") as in Lillings Ambo: is a term signifying a parish made up of two villages sharing a common name. In North Yorkshire as above, West Lilling and East Lilling are involved. Wendens Ambo in Essex, is in similar case; comprising the villages of Wenden Magna and Wenden Parva. (Wendens Ambo, incidentally, is located very near to Audley End rail station.)
John Griffiths
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Went there many years ago on a day trip to Saffron Walden. We possibly were entertained at the Bell Inn; a hostelry of the same name exists - one hopes, thrives - at Yeovil in Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stretton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as the Fosse Way.
England has assorted settlements called "Stretton" [plus suffix], of which Stretton-on-Dunsmore is one: the "Stretton" part signifying -- as indicated above -- the place's lying on a Roman road: Old English straet plus tun. Another of this nomenclatorial "family" is Stretton Sugwas, Herefordshire: four miles north-east of Hereford, on a relatively obscure Roman road running east to west.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yazor in Herefordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Grimsworth.
Correction: Stretton Sugwas is north-west of Hereford, not north-east.
Yazor's church (redundant; under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust) is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, has a church with the same dedicatee.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bangor-on-Dee in Wrexham County Borough also has a National Hunt racecourse.
Bangor-on-Dee was, in the very distant past (5th / 6th centuries, after which came to a sad and violent end), the location of a major monastery: hence the settlement's alternative name for a while, some centuries back, of Bangor Monachorum. This suffix -- Latin for "of the monks" -- is appended to names of a small handful of England-and-Wales settlements: indicating there having been a monastery in the immediate vicinity. An instance of this, is Buckland Monachorum, Devon: situated between Plymouth and Tavistock.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lopwell in Devon also lies on the line of the River Tavy.
Close by Lopwell, is Lopwell Dam Local Nature Reserve; a good spot for observing, among other fauna, otters. Another location affording a decent chance of seeing otters, is the National Nature Reserve at Ranworth Broad, Ranworth, Norfolk (seven or eight miles north-east of Norwich).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ore in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.
D6130
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Between 1966 and 2003, Ore was the site of a gas turbine driven power station. Another location that still has a gas turbine power station is Little Barford, near St Neots in Cambridgeshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wharram-le-Street in North Yorkshire is another settlement with the remains of a deserted medieval village in its environs.
Further to " 'Stretton' = on Roman road" not many posts back; it would appear that an equivalent of this for northern England, is the suffix "-le-Street". As with Wharram-le-Street, above; and Chester-le-Street, County Durham: both on -- relatively obscure -- Roman road routes.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Norwich also has a church with an anchorites cell.
D6130
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Norwich Cathedral has the second-tallest spire in the UK. The third-tallest is that of St Walburge's Roman Catholic Church in Preston, Lancashire.