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John Griffiths
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Keele Services on the M6 were designed by Terence Verity, who also designed the services at Charnock Richard.
D6130
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Ringmer in East Sussex also has major bonfire celebrations on 5th November.
"Two for the price of one" -- John Harvard, first benefactor of Harvard University; who featured in my post #35,773: married in 1636, Anne Sadler. Per one account, this lady was the daughter of the then vicar of Ringmer; according to another, she was from Patcham, East Sussex -- now a suburb of Brighton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Woodmancote in West Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Steyning Poor Law Union.
There are close to Woodmancote, several woodland areas with, we are given to understand, a wonderful and varied wealth of wild flowers and plants (one suspects that the submitter of the Wiki item on Woodmancote, is a keen botanist). It would appear that of comparable wild-plant interest, is the Waun Las National Nature Reserve: immediately adjacent to the National Botanic Garden of Wales at Llanarthney / Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire.
John Griffiths
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Llanarthne is served by the bus X14, which links it in one direction to Carmarthen, in the other to Llanwrtyd Wells.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Alltmawr in Powys was also once administered by the Hundred of Builth.
Alltmawr's church of St. Mauritius, is reckoned one of the smallest churches in Wales. This name has one thinking erroneously, of Indian Ocean venues; but is, one takes it, a fancy form of St. Maurice: to whom a church in Plympton, Devon (suburb of Plymouth) is dedicated.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Laira in Devon also lies on the line of the River Plym
This is a tough one ! Find self having to resort to "otherwise-irrelevant name similarities" : the Laira area was known in times past (16th / 17th centuries) as "Lare" or "Lary Point". A resemblance can be seen, at the totally other end of Great Britain: with the name of Larel, Highland -- between Wick and Thurso.
Xenophon PCDGS
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After spending more time than I anticipated, looking at old books and road maps in my archives, then searching the internet, I have not been able to find the settlement of Larel in the area that you mention above.
"You're a better man than I, Gunga Din"
John Griffiths
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I have found it: a hamlet in Caithness, south of Loch Scarmclate.. Thanks to the National Library of Scotland maps collection.
John Griffiths
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Like Laren, Watten, Caithness, lies on the A882.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Comrie in Perth and Kinross was also chosen as a site in which a WWII German POW camp was established within its environs.
Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross, also lies on the River Earn ("well, it would, wouldn't it?" -- but I was making sure of finding a settlement which "was heard of", and about which there would be something to post !)
Concerning Larel, Highland: I went out shortly after making the post concerned, and was "incommunicado" until about 10 PM. Discovered Larel in my Michelin Britain Road Atlas -- in the index, and on the map; nothing found about it by Googling -- but I reckoned, "people can mention somewhere else on the A882" (as, @John Griffiths, you indeed did). I didn't set out deliberately to be fiendish...
Tetragon213
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Crief also has an important bridge over the River Earn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Assuming you meant Crieff.....
Aberdour in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Fillan.
High Dyke
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William Wotherspoon was born in Aberdour. The Scottish rugby player died at Fleet, Hampshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stirling also has a clock tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bulkington in Warwickshire also has historical links to the trade of ribbon weaving.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Dublin also has an Oratory.
D6130
Established Member
Armagh in Co Armagh also has a Church of Ireland cathedral dedicated to St Patrick.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackrock in County Cork also has a planetarium.
Tetragon213
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Armagh is a Religious City-state that gives its suzerain extra faith and a unique building, Cardiff is an Industrial city-state that gives its suzerain more electrical power in cities with harbours.
Carrigrohane also lies on the River Lee
Xenophon PCDGS
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Faversham in Kent also has historical links to the manufacturing of gunpowder.