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Banagher in County Offaly also lies on the line of the River Shannon.
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The novelist Anthony Trollope (1815 -- 82) lived and worked in Banagher, in the employ of the General Post Office, between 1841 and 1844. During this sojourn, he began writing his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran. In 1868 Trollope stood, unsuccessfully as Liberal candidate in a by-election in the constituency of Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Halifax in West Yorkshire also has a minster.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Annan in Dumfries and Galloway also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.
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York also has a pub called the Blue Bell.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Faxfleet in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ouse.
EbbwJunction1
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Faxfleet was formerly a township in the parish of South Cave, although between 1866 and 1935 it was a civil parish in it's own right.
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Washington, Tyne & Wear, also has familial connections with George Washington, the American rebel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Killingworth in Tyne and Wear also received New Town status in the 1960s.
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The first practical miner's safety lamp, invented by a then little known engineer called George Stephenson, was demonstrated in 1815 at Killingworth Colliery. The much more famous lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy which was on similar principles but different in detailed design, was demonstrated later in the same year. Both gentlemen have statues, Davy's being in Penzance where he was born.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Trevescan in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.
"Tre-", as in the above-bolded, is a common place-name-commencement in Cornwall: means in Cornish, "settlement", or "hamlet". (We learn that "Trevescan" is derived from "tre-"; plus, either the personal name Bescan, meaning "little short one" -- or a corruption of heskyn = sedge or marsh -- so there !) Another "Tre-" place in this extreme-western part of Cornwall: is Trewellard, some half-dozen miles north of Trevescan.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thanks for bring back memories of places visited whilst holidaying in that area of Cornwall when first married so very many years ago.....
Boswednack also lies on the route of the B3306, the most scenic road we ever drove along.
Boswednack also lies on the route of the B3306, the most scenic road we ever drove along.
Glad to have done so ! To my regret, my first-hand acquaintance with that bit of the county has been minimal, and very brief: at the end of a holiday some dozen or fifteen years ago, involving walking (or mostly so) the long-distance path along Cornwall's Channel coast.
Boswednack is considered to have been one of the last outposts of Cornish as a birth-speech; with this state of affairs having come to an end in, probably, the late 19th century. Another language in the purlieus of this game, dead-or-almost as a genuine birth-speech, is Sercquiais -- a descendant of Jersey's variety of Norman-French, itself now almost extinct. Sercquiais was a speciality of Jersey folk who settled on the island of Sark; it is reckoned to have now, fewer than twenty native speakers.
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The present Seigneur (Lord) of Sark is Christopher Beaumont, who is the 23rd holder of the post, having inherited the title in 2016. A former British Army officer, he was born in Reigate on 4th February 1957 and is the son of John Michael Beaumont OBE (1927 – 2016), the twenty-second Seigneur.
The historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 -- 82), lived in Reigate for the latter part of his life. His best-known and most-read novel must be The Lancashire Witches -- essentially fact-based, set in the 16th century and involving that time's politico-religious turmoils: much of its action involving the Abbey (dissolved by Henry VIII) of Whalley, Lancashire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thame in Oxfordshire was also a settlement chosen in which to build a Cistercian Abbey.
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Bulkington in Warwickshire also has historical links to the ribbon trade.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aveton Gifford in Devon also lies on the line of the River Avon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Doddiscombleigh in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Exminster.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Armagh in County Armagh also has a planetarium.
Armagh has a namesake settlement in Quebec province, Canada; in which province is another (quasi)-namesake vis-a-vis the British Isles: New Richmond. It appears uncertain, after which Richmond the place in Quebec is named -- I am therefore picking at random, Richmond in North Yorkshire.
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Crakehill in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Swale.
The info-sources seem to have little or nothing to tell us about Crakehill; however, find self rescued by a thread currently going on in "General Discussion" here: Trivia -- villages and towns in UK / Ireland with just one road leading into them. Per my Michelin road atlas: Crakehill fulfils that criterion; as does Sizewell, Suffolk (about four miles north of Aldeburgh).
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Dounreay in Highland is also a coastal settlement that was chosen as a site for a nuclear power station.
There took place near Dounreay in 1437, the Battle of Sandside Chase: one of many warlike episodes involving the Clan Mackay, who were at that time invading the Caithness area. This battle was between the Mackays, and local folk trying to defend their lands; the Mackays won. A few decades later (early 1480s) came the Battle of Tarbat, between the Clans Mackay, and Ross (nasty doings by both sides). This battle was near Portmahomack, Highland -- some ten miles east of Tain, and at the tip of a peninsula.