Xenophon PCDGS
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Armagh in County Armagh also has a sailing school.
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D6130
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Todmorden in West Yorkshire also has an astronomical observatory.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Luddendenfoot in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.
D6130
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Luddendenfoot features in a poem by the current Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, who lives in Marsden in West Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Milnsbridge in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Colne.
A century-and-more ago, a central feature of Milnsbridge was the woollen-cloth mills run by the Crowther family -- that name still commemorated in the area, in that connection. The Leeds-born author Thomas Armstrong (1899 -- 1978) wrote various novels, mostly with a North-of-England setting: best-known probably, The Crowthers of Bankdam and its sequels -- chronicle of a West Yorkshire wool-mill-owning family (uncertain whether name Crowther, consciously borrowed from the Milnsbridge folk; or whether that, just a coincidence). A departure re Armstrong's Northern themes, was his 1942 novel Dover Harbour; set in Dover, Kent, in the Napoleonic-Wars period.
EbbwJunction1
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The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Dover is a Grade II* listed Anglican church. It was largely rebuilt in 1843 – 1844, during the incumbency of Canon John Puckle when the work was carried out by J C & C Buckler. Another church restored by the same firm is the Anglican Church Of St Leonard in Butleigh, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Middlezoy in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.
Just north of Middlezoy village is the Greylake Site of Special Scientific Interest: which features an excellent section of the geological feature the Burtle Beds, from the Pleistocene era. There is a fossil collection, with an important series of specimens taken from the aforementioned site, in the Somerset County Museum in Taunton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Castleton in Derbyshire also had a medieval period leper hospital.
There is in Castleton an annual celebration of Oak Apple Day (May 29th -- you-know-who hiding in the oak tree at Boscobel): called Castleton Garland Day -- described by Wiki in its quirky way: "a Garland King is paraded around the streets wearing an extremely large garland of flowers, followed by local girls dressed in white, with flowers". Various other settlements in England celebrate 29/5 annually, for same commemoration -- likely, one feels, in a more humdrum way. One such is Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire (four miles east of Bicester).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Otmoor in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ray.
The Otmoor region is surrounded by villages familiarly called "the Seven Towns of Otmoor": one of which, Charlton-on-Otmoor, has a pub called the Crown. Brownhills, West Midlands -- between Lichfield and Walsall -- has a pub of the same name.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lancaster also has a church that is dedicated to St Bernardette.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bridport in Dorset also has historical connections to rope-making.
Extremely close to Bridport -- a mile and a half south of the town, and right on the coast -- is the settlement of West Bay; which was known as Bridport Harbour until the 19th century, when it was given its new name in the hope of its taking on the role of a popular seaside resort.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Torpoint in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Huddisford in Devon also lies on the line of the River Torridge.
Another tough one from you, Mr. Xenophon PCDGS: pretty highly-obscure place -- any info about which, difficult to glean. Nihil desperandum, however: I discover that the hamlet of Huddisford -- a few miles south of Clovelly -- is a close neighbour of equally little-known hamlets called Clifford, and Blagdon. This last-named has a (relatively) better-known namesake "not a million miles away": the village of Blagdon in Somerset, some ten miles east of Weston-Super-Mare. (The Somerset Blagdon was once the terminus of a long-closed but, one feels, likely delectable GWR branch line; and also has a putative association with Bill Tidy's long-running comic-strip saga The Cloggies, about a folk-dance troupe native to the fictional gritty Northern industrial town of Blagdon -- whether the cartoonist got this name from the much smaller Somerset and/or Devon settlement; or dreamt it up independently thereof -- who knows?)
(Wretched computer going mad unsolicitedly crossing things out ...)
(Wretched computer going mad unsolicitedly crossing things out ...)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bo'ness in West Lothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
In the course of this game -- resorting to Wiki, promotes discovery of all manner of interesting characters whom one has never heard of before. A case in point: a gentleman who suffered a tragic, though not all that untimely, death near Bo'ness. This was the prominent geologist and mapmaker Charles Clough (1852 -- 1916); also, incidentally, a teetotaller and vegetarian -- born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, though he spent the greater part of his life in Scotland. In the course of his studying rocks in a railway cutting south-west of Bo'ness: seemingly with his mind on his studies rather than on his personal safety, he was struck by a train; complications from this happening, led to his death four days later. (An instance of a person dying during the period of World War I, through circumstances nothing to do with the war -- though C.C. would have been anyway, a lot too old for the trenches 
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Halifax in West Yorkshire also has a choral society.
EbbwJunction1
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The tall flint tower of St Michael's at Ocklynge is one of Eastbourne's landmarks. The church was consecrated in 1902 and built on the site of the mission hall where the nonsense writer Lewis Carroll (the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is known to have preached during his holidays in the town. Dodgson was born on 27th January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury. Cheshire, the oldest boy and the third oldest of 11 children. When he was 11, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees, Yorkshire, and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory.
Middleton St. George, County Durham, is located five miles east of Croft-on-Tees. Both settlements lie on the River Tees: which in these parts, marks the boundary between County Durham and North Yorkshire. Middleton and Croft are just within their aforementioned counties, respectively.
D6130
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The former RAF aerodrome at Middleton St George later became Teesside Airport. North of the border, RAF Turnhouse became Edinburgh airport.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Penyffordd in Flintshire also has a clock tower.
Purple Train
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Penyffordd's Westminster constituency - Alyn and Deeside - bears the same name as its Senedd constituency. Another place to be in a constituency with the same name in both parliaments is Amlwch (the constituency being Ynys Mon).