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Southampton is also twinned with a coastal settlement in Italy. Drogheda's "twin" is Bronte, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily; Southampton's, is Trieste.
 
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The Whitton area of Ipswich, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary and St. Botolph.
 
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Good old Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, and all that -- sometimes useful in this game. Founded and named, as part of that general historical episode: Lynn, Mass. (a little way north of Boston) -- named after King's Lynn (the "King's" part having been "censored"). Similarly Dedham, Mass. (about the same distance south of Boston) -- after Dedham in Suffolk.
 
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Types and designs of stove: there is one, widely advertised, called the "Little Thurlow". Another type, also seemingly named after a settlement in England, is the "Pickering" (viz. Pickering, North Yorkshire).
 
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There's a certain ship which came to a sad end -- which story and its ramifications, have exerted great fascination on an enormous number of people, for well over a century. I am perhaps easily bored; nonetheless -- very sad and all that -- but this whole business has for long struck me personally, as one of the greatest bores on earth. Can be useful in this game, however. Captain Edward Smith of the craft concerned, was -- a lot earlier than this, in his career -- married in 1887, at St. Oswald's Church, Winwick. A greatly junior member in comparison, of the vessel's officer-ship, 6th Officer James Paul Moody (I don't think we've had him before) -- who died in the disaster -- was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. (Clue if needed -- the "maritime bad thing" in question, occurred in spring 1912 <D .)
 
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Another settlement, at the mouth of another River Wey: is Weybridge (Elmbridge district of Surrey) -- located at the point where the Hampshire / Sussex / Surrey River Wey, flows into the Thames.
 
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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 -- 1951) stayed at the Grouse Inn in Glossop in 1908, while studying and working at Manchester University. For a time during World War II, Wittgenstein worked as a laboratory assistant at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. (One infers that Wittgenstein liked Glossop better than did the poet / writer / polemicist Hilaire Belloc, who sojourned very briefly in the town at about the same time -- he tells in a letter, that he found Glossop and all its inns, ghastly: a horrible place inhabited by horrible people.)
 
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There is in central Lisburn: a memorial, with statue, to Brigadier-General John Nicholson (1822 -- 57) -- hero of the Indian Mutiny, who died in that conflict. Some years of Nicholson's childhood and adolescence, were spent in Lisburn. Another Indian Mutiny hero (who survived that historical episode) was Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram (1803 -- 63): born in Butterley, Derbyshire.
 
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Once more, a bit desperate -- resorting to "childish irrelevant animal stuff". Likely, totally nothing to do with scholarly etymology; but -- " 'ay for 'osses " -- there's Marehay in Derbyshire; whereas in Shropshire there's Horsehay, now a suburban village in the area of the new town of Telford.
 
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Pagham, West Sussex -- near Bognor Regis -- also has a pub called just, the Lion -- "no frills".
 
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Ropley's brief spot in the historical limelight took place in 1709; when the area's commons and fields were enclosed by Act of Parliament: the bill led by Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, in an effort to restore his family finances (not very Christian on the part of the eminent divine, one feels), and the College of Winchester. Wiki tells us that these enclosures were strongly contested by petition by many of the commoners, who claimed that the Bishop and his commissioners were stealing their commons rights. "Serious and bloody repercussions followed". A couple of decades earlier, Bishop Trelawny had been in trouble with the then King James II -- the renowned "trial of the Seven Bishops", which had Trelawny's fellow-Cornishmen potentially marching on London -- well-known song, chorus "And shall Trelawny die?", etc. One envisages sentiments on the part of Ropley-ans in 1709, to the effect of "stuff the Cornish -- if only the so-and-so had died". The controversial bishop was born at Pelynt, Cornwall, in 1650.
 
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Something of a struggle here -- and maybe outright cheating ... Wiki says rather delightfully, concerning the eponymous Saint Veep: "...of whom little is known (not even whether the saint was male or female)". Another not-much-known-about saint whom I discovered on the Net, is Saint Richard of Lucca: who is described as having been a king of Wessex in the late 7th / early 8th centuries (??? -- Lucca is in Italy, if I'm not mistaken ... ). Skelmersdale, Lancashire, has a church dedicated to St. Richard -- now the "cheaty" bit -- but I'm rather desperate: am sure that dedicatee of church concerned, must be another and better-known St. Richard :'( ...
 
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Towns with rather charmingly naive Latin mottos as part of their coats of arms: Runcorn has Navem Mercibus Implere = "fill the ship with goods". Motto of Folkestone, Kent, is Salubritas et Amoenitas = "healthiness and delightfulness".
 
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There is in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a substantial and well-appointed house, modestly called The Cottage -- has the alternative name of "Teddy's Nook"; from its having been a habitual rendezvous in the late 1870s for the future King Edward VII, and the probably most celebrated of his various mistresses: Lillie Langtry (the "Jersey Lily"); a definitely "colourful" lady. At a later stage of Ms. Langtry's life, in a spell when she was involved with horseracing matters, she lived for a while in Kentford, Suffolk (a little way east of Newmarket).
 
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