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Skutterskelfe in North Yorkshire was also once adminisrered by the Langburgh Wapentake.
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England and Scotland have several different rivers named Leven. Skutterskelfe parish lies on the Leven which flows into the River Tees. One of the Scottish Levens runs eastward from Loch Leven, to debouch into the Firth of Forth; passing en route through Leslie, Fife.
D6130
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Inverkeithing was also once a major centre of the Fife paper milling industry.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkwall in Orkney is another settlement that was noted during the Scottish witchcraft trials in the medieval period.
John Griffiths
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St Decuman's church in Watchet has, in its churchyard, the Holy Well of St Decuman. Another church with adjacent holy well is the church of St Cuthbert in Bellingham (pronounced Bellinjum), Northumberland.
johnnychips
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Hardraw in N Yorkshire is also on the Pennine Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Invermoriston in Highland also has a waterfall within its environs.
The hill above Invermoriston -- affording superb views of the Great Glen -- has the name of Sron na Muic: Gaelic for "The Nose of The Pig". Related-Gaelic porcine-cephalic-nomenclatorial material from the neighbouring island: the name of Swinford, Co. Mayo, is a fairly direct Anglicisation of the settlement's Irish-language name, Beal Atha na Muice = "Ford-Mouth of the Pig".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Prescot in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians.
John Griffiths
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Prescot was formerly a major centre of watch and clock manufacture. There is a modern watch factory at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rotherfield Peppard in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Binfield.
John Griffiths
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The 1992 film Howards End included scenes filmed at Rotherfield Peppard and also at Bewdley, Worcestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Servern.
Anna Kingsford alias Annie Bonus (1846 -- 1888) -- one of the first Englishwomen to obtain a degree in medicine; also campaigner for vegetarianism and women's rights, and against vivisection: is buried in Atcham's churchyard. She was born in Stratford, now in the London Borough of Newham.
John Griffiths
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Shepherds Bush in west London also has a Westfield shopping centre.
Shepherds Bush, and Burnham-on-Crouch (Essex) were both pivotal in "off-colour" schoolboy feeble-humour would-be wordplay, at the school which I attended -- on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, some thirty miles out of London. Details (really not worth it) would need to be imparted by PM.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Broughty Ferry in the Dundee City Council Area also has a yacht club.
EbbwJunction1
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Broughty Ferry has a swimming event on New Year's Day called the "New Year's Day Dook"; a similar event is held at Queensferry, although it is called the "Loony Dook".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wickersley in South Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Blessed Trinity.
Having a bit of a struggle with this one: is the following allowable? -- the Blessed Trinity church, Wickersley, is a Catholic church; the settlement's Anglican church is dedicated to St. Alban -- as is the church of the same denomination, of Frant, East Sussex.
John Griffiths
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Frant was a major triangulation point on General William Roy's Anglo-French Survey of 1784-1790, a project which had built on Roy's achievement of surveying a precisely -measured baseline on Hounslow Heath in 1784. That baseline ran from what is now a car park on the northern edge of London Heathrow Airport to a memorial at Roy Grove, Hampton, SW London (not far from my secondary school).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bedfont in the London Borough of Hounslow was also once administered by the Hundred of Spelthorne.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ockbrook in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Morleston and Whitchurch.
Not another flamin' Whitchurch
!Ockbrook has four pubs: all of them with in England very-commonly-met-with, "stock", rather boring names. Taking one at random, the Cross Keys -- King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire (roughly between Peterborough and Corby) also has a pub with that name.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
An episode in Scottish inter-clan warfare: the Battle of Dryfe Sands (two miles west of Lockerbie) in 1593, in which Clan Johnstone fought Clan Maxwell -- an overwhelming Johnstone victory, with nearly all Maxwell participants being killed. The battle was subsequently dubbed the "Lockerbie Lick". There was some century-and-a-half later, in the 1745 Jacobite rising, another "nicknamed" military engagement, fairly small in the grand scheme of such things (though Dryfe Sands would not have seemed thus, to the luckless Maxwells): the Jacobites' easy capture of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire -- which their side came to refer to as the "Canter of Coatbridge".