Nether Whitacre's cricket club is nicknamed "the Ducks" -- this originating from various "tales from times past". Dundee has an inline hockey side (I learn that this sport is a kind of ice hockey / ordinary hockey hybrid, played wearing sort-of roller skates) called the Dundee Ducks.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire was also a settlement on the route of the Sparrows Herene turnpike.
D6130
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Wendover in Buckinghamshire was also the terminus of a branch arm of the Grand Union Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dufftown in Moray also has a clock tower.
Dufftown is a very big player on the whisky scene, producing more whisky than any other town in Scotland (among other renowned brands, Glenfiddich comes from here). "From whale to minnow" in the distilling world: the Isle of Wight's only distillery (focused on gin rather than whisky) is the Mermaid Distillery -- situated very near Ryde, I.O.W.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hathersage in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Hathersage is one of many places in the more northerly parts of England, to have associations with "Robin Hood & Co." -- including a suggestion that the grave in Hathersage churchyard of someone who is calculated to have been exceptionally tall: is that of Little John. Another of the band, Friar Tuck (that status reckoned historically unlikely -- in the 12th century, friars had yet to be "invented") was according to one of various legends: a former monk of Fountains Abbey (just south-west of Ripon, North Yorkshire) -- the gentleman had parted company with his abbey, owing to his excessive fondness for good living; but became the unofficial chaplain of R.H.'s company.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ely in Cambridgeshire also has an Anglican cathedral.
D6130
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Salisbury in Wiltshire - as well as also having an Anglican cathedral - also has a pub called The Village Inn. It is - or was last time I was there - a shrine to the landlord's railway enthusiasm, with signs, lamps, paintings, books, magazines, uniform items, etc....as well as an eclectic selection of real ales - and customers. Last time I was in, there was still a photograph of mine on display on the noticeboard showing BR Standard class 5 no. 73096 arriving at Salisbury on a 'Steam Dreams' special about twenty years ago.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Upavon in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.
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Upavon hosts a Volunteer Gliding Squadron of the RAF; another such is based at RAF Syerston, in Flintham,Notts.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
Owthorpe is the setting for a historical novel for younger readers, by Noel Harrower: Uncivil War -- Twin Tales of Nottinghamshire; concerning the 17th-century English Civil War / War of the Three Kingdoms. Great Torrington, Devon, is the setting for a novel similar in all particulars: Simon, by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Huddisford in Devon also lies on the line of the River Torridge.
"A touch of the frantics" -- Wiki and the road atlas, seem to wot not of Huddisford. Find self forced to hark back to posts on this game in late February this year; involving names confusable with a certain big town in West Yorkshire. We are told that Littleborough, Greater Manchester, was at one time "a chapelry and component area of Hundersfield, an ancient township...": "Hunds and Hudds and stuff" -- confusing but fun 
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Eastwood in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Papplewick in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.
Chillenden, Kent -- between Canterbury and Deal -- also has a pub called the Griffin's Head. (It seems that per local legend, Alan-a-Dale -- the Robin Hood crew's minstrel -- is buried at Papplewick. Seems that at the present time, we can't get away from that lot 
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Great Chishill in Camberidgeshire also has an open-trestle post mill.
Concerning highest points of not-very-high east-of-England counties: about a mile south of Great Chishill, is Chrishall Common: Essex's highest point (482 ft. above sea level) -- just within that county: very near the meeting-point of Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire. The highest point of Suffolk -- a mere 420 ft. -- is Great Wood Hill, a mile south of Chedburgh (five miles south-west of Bury St. Edmunds).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gazeley in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Risbridge.
According to Wiki, Gazeley's name is a contraction of "gaze at Ely" -- which city, fifteen miles north-west of Gazeley, can be seen from the highest part of the village. This may seem rather like something which an imaginative but non-place-name-learned child might come up with; but the erudite W-people are of the opinion that it's the true derivation. Stretching things a little, perhaps; but Seaview, Isle of Wight (just east of Ryde; the settlement having its origins in anything like its present form, no earlier than a century and a half ago) is also "named after what can be seen from it" -- as Wiki tells, it "has many holiday homes including some with sea views".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Caernarfon in Gwynedd also has a yacht club.
I seem to be considerably "pushing the envelope" these days -- there took place at Caernarfon in 1401, in Owen Glyndwr's revolt against the English takeover, what was called the Battle of -- not Caernarfon, but Twthill (Caernarfon has today, a pub called the Twthill Vaults). Similarly named, and only just not in Wales, is Tutshill, Gloucestershire: on the east bank of the River Wye, very near its mouth -- opposite on the west bank is Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rhayader in Powys also lies on the line of the River Wye.
D6130
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Thetford and its surrounding area were used for the filming of the classic BBC comedy series "Dad's Army"....as well as for the 1971 feature film sequel. The recent remake of the film - starring Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Bill Patterson and Catherine Zeta-Jones - was filmed in and around Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.