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[Calthrop]

Petanque ("French bowls") is also played and enjoyed in Grassington, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope in County Durham also has historical connections to lead mining.

 

[D6130]

Penshaw in Co Durham also lies on the River Wear.

 

[Calthrop]

Penshaw features in the tale of the Lambton Worm -- evil and voracious water-monster fished up onto land from the River Wear: according to the song about the creature's doings, it wrapped its tail ten times round Penshaw Hill. An Irish sort-of-kindred (but seemingly harmless) beast -- bathos rather seen (including its name), in comparison: is (The) Muckie: a Loch Ness Monster be-alike, as it were, which allegedly inhabits the three lakes of Killarney, Co. Kerry. The name is derived from Muckross, name of one of the lakes; plus the "-ie" suffix, after Scotland's Nessie.

 

[D6130]

Killarney is overlooked by Carrauntuohill, the highest mountain in Ireland....whereas Fort William is overlooked by Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

Fort William is the northern terminus of the West Highland Way walking route. Its southern terminus is Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire (renowned pronunciation-bogey for "Sassenachs" !).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Josephh.

 

[Calthrop]

Colwyn Bay's Victoria Pier came to an unhappy end, after much wrangling between its owner, and Conwy County Borough Council, between 2009 and 2018; in which year it was demolished. The one-time pier at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, has also ceased to be: at a somewhat earlier date, with its destruction in the Great Storm of 1987.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boscombe in Dorset also has a noted chine.

 

[Tetragon213]

Colchester was the birthplace of another member of the Britpop band Blur.

(Bassist Alex James was born in Boscombe, Drummer Dave Rowntree was born in Colchester)

 

[Calthrop]

Colchester is the second-largest settlement in Essex. The largest is Southend-on-Sea.

 

[Tetragon213]

Shoreham by Sea, in addition to sharing a partial suffix, also formerly held an annual airshow like Southend did.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upper Beeding in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Adur.

 

[Tetragon213]

Exton (Hants) also lies on the South Down Way

 

[Calthrop]

Exton has a pub called the Shoe Inn. Shoeburyness, Essex, had a pub / restaurant (closed at present) called the Shoe. (Pubs called the Horseshoe, would seem to exist in great numbers; whereas just plain "Shoe" 's, are apparently vanishingly rare.)

 

[Tetragon213]

Scampton is home to an RAF airfield, and a great story involving said airfield that ultimately ended in rather dramatic fashion at Shoeburyness.

"Apparently when Lincolnshire County Council were widening the road past RAF Scampton's main gate in about 1958, the 'gate guards' there had to be moved to make way for the new carriageway. Scampton was the WWII home of 617 Sqn, and said "gate guards" were a Lancaster...and a Grand Slam bomb.

When they went to lift the Grand Slam, thought for years to just be an empty casing, with an RAF 8 Ton Coles Crane, it wouldn't budge. "Oh, it must be filled with concrete" they said. Then somebody had a horrible thought .... No!..... Couldn't be? ... Not after all these years out here open to the public to climb over and be photographed sitting astride! .... Could it? .... Then everyone raced off to get the Station ARMO. He carefully scraped off many layers of paint and gingerly unscrewed the base plate.

Yes, you guessed it, live 1944 explosive filling! The beast was very gently lifted onto an RAF 'Queen Mary' low loader, using a much larger civvy crane (I often wonder what, if anything, they told the crane driver), then driven slowly under massive police escort to the coastal experimental range at Shoeburyness. There it was rigged for demolition, and when it 'high ordered', it proved in no uncertain terms to anyone within a ten mile radius that the filling was still very much alive!

Exhaustive investigations then took place, but nobody could find the long-gone 1944, 1945 or 1946 records which might have shown how a live 22,000 lb bomb became a gate guard for nearly the next decade and a half. Some safety distance calculations were done, however, about the effect of a Grand Slam detonating at ground level in the open. Apart from the entire RAF Station, most of the northern part of the City of Lincoln, including Lincoln Cathedral, which dates back to 1250, would have been flattened."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brattleby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Darlington, County Durham, also has a church dedicated to St. Cuthbert.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Letchworth in Hertfordshire also saw significant Quaker land purchases within the town area.

 

[John Griffiths]

Welwyn Garden City was also the brainchild of Garden City movement pioneer Ebenezer Howard.

 

[Calthrop]

Briefly, at Welwyn Garden City's inception in 1920: the plan was to call the new city Digswell, after the much-older village just north of the projected city area. This Digswell, Hertfordshire -- though now a part of the W.G.C. built-up area -- still essentially retains an identity of its own.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Willian in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Broadwater.

 

[Calthrop]

I've always been rather tickled by the name of Willian -- tempts one to reckon it a typo for the name of several past English kings, and the current heir to the throne. Another village, not hugely far away, with a charmingly odd name; is Matching Tye, Essex (just east of Harlow). Both Willian, and Matching Tye: have pubs called the Fox.

 

[DerekC]

Matching Tye is linked to Loughton, Essex, by the Forest Way long distance footpath and bridleway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has a church that is dedicated to St Edmund of Canterbury.

 

[Tetragon213]

Southampton is home to the current head offices of Cunard, while Liverpool is home to their former head office at the aptly named Cunard Building, sadly now delisted from UNESCO.

Fun fact, while Liverpool was the "official" home port of many ocean liners due to their head offices being in L'pool, the majority plied their trade from Southampton!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nuneaton in Warwickshire also has a Sikk Gudwara.

 

[Calthrop]

Cranleigh, Surrey -- between Guildford and Horsham -- also has a church dedicated to St. Nicolas (that spelling -- without the "h").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Steyning in West Sussex also lies on the route of The Downs Way distance footpath and cycleway.

 

[Calthrop]

There was for a very long time in the Middle Ages, a protracted and complicated local-politico / religious dispute over matters of suzerainty / rights / precedence, between Steyning and its near neighbour Bramber, West Sussex.