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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nunriding in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Morpeth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Nunriding is a township in the parish of the of-greater-significance village of Mitford, a couple of miles west of Morpeth. Things now become a little surreal -- referencing a post of mine of Dec. 29th: what is it with all these James Thomsons, active in one or another branch of the arts, all born in broadly the same historical period, and in the "middle-northern" parts of Great Britain? This newly-found by me, James Thomson (1788 -- 1850) -- an engraver of some note -- was born in Mitford. His father (yet another James Thomson), then curate of Mitford; later became vicar of Ormesby, North Yorkshire (now a suburb of Middlesbrough).

 

[John Griffiths]

The website 'Classic Cafes' also features a cafe in Worthing, Sussex.

 

[Tetragon213]

Brighton also has a very nice pier

 

[John Griffiths]

Apologies to all and especially Tetragon. My Worthing entry was misplaced - I had wrongly thought it was coming just after Newbiggin. Th last valid entry is Ormesby, by Calthrop.

 

[D6130]

Darlington in Co. Durham also has a parish church dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eryholme in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Darlington Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Quoting directly from Wiki: [Around this part of the world] "the river [here, the Tees] forms many loops called 'holmes'. The word 'holm' is of Viking origin and means 'island formed by a river'. The name of Eryholme [although it is, kind-of, in such a loop] is, however, a corruption of its original name 'Erghum'. The name means shieling -- a shelter for livestock, which is from the Old Irish word 'airgh'. This word was introduced into Yorkshire place names by Norwegian Vikings who had lived in Ireland for a number of generations and adopted many Irish words." Phew !

Some way to the south, Nunburnholme, East Riding of Yorkshire -- five miles north-west of Market Weighton -- is named according to the above usage: it lies in a loop of a very small stream, ultimately flowing into the Yorkshire Derwent. "Nun", referring to the local priory; "burn" = spring, stream; "holme", "as per".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I immediately recognized the name Nunburnholme from its closed station we have often called at on the Closed Stations Journey quiz...

Ousethorpe was also once administered by the Wilton Beacon division of the Warthill Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

I immediately recognized the name Nunburnholme from its closed station we have often called at on the Closed Stations Journey quiz...

We had fun thereon, with that line; over Christmas, didn't we? That's what brought that particular settlement to my mind in the first place.

Ousethorpe was also once administered by the Wilton Beacon division of the Warthill Wapentake.

Ousethorpe is described as "a small hamlet in the civil parish of Millington; approximately 1.5 miles north of Pocklington" -- so small that it doesn't feature on my road atlas ! The mentioned Millington (East Riding) does, however; 2 miles north-east of Pocklington.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, a long distance footpath passes to the east of the village of Millington, albeit through the civil parish of the same name. It also passes through the civil parish of South Cave, also in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Slightly north (and a bit west) of South Cave, is the aptly named village of North Cave

 

[John Griffiths]

North Cave's pub is called The White Hart. There is another pub of this name in Duffield, Derbyshire.

 

[D6130]

Shrewsbury also has a church dedicated to St Alkmund.

 

[Tetragon213]

Wrexham is another large settlement on the Anglo-Welsh border.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Coxwell in Oxfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish Church of Saint Giles is on a ridge in the southern part of the village. The tower has a ring of five bells - Henry Bagley of Chacombe, West Northamptonshire cast the treble, third and fourth bell in 1738, with the others being cast by different people between 1824 and 1911. Sadly, the bells are currently un-ringable.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edgcote in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Cherwell.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lacock (Wilts) was another filming location in the '95 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bromyard in Herefordshire also has a Scarecrow Festival each year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolferlow in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Plegelgate.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In the fourteenth century the manor of Wolfelow belonged to the Earl of March; about 1310 it was granted to Walter de Thornbury, a retainer of the Earl, who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Thornbury died in a shipwreck in 1313 while attempting to secure confirmation of his election as Archbishop of Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dingle in County Kerry also has an Oratory.

 

[Calthrop]

Lispole, Co. Kerry, is five miles east of Dingle; and also lies on the N86 road which links Dingle with Tralee.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Irish republican revolutionary Thomas Ashe, from Lispole, died following force-feeding while on hunger strike in prison in 1917. Another republican prisoner who died while on hunger strike was Robert Gerard 'Bobby' Sands, who died in the Maze Prison in 1981. Sands was born in Dunmurry, Co Antrim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dromara in County Down also lies on the line of the River Lagan.

 

[Calthrop]

Harry Ferguson (1884 -- 1960) -- mechanic and inventor: involved with motor vehicles, and aviation (his greatest renown is reckoned to be, for inventing the modern tractor); lived for some of his life, just outside Dromara (his birthplace was elsewhere in Co. Down). There are now, opposite aforesaid near-Dromara house, the Harry Ferguson Memorial Gardens; which include a life-size bronze sculpture of H.F., by John Sherlock. Ferguson died in Lower Swell, Gloucestershire: just west of Stow-on-the-Wold.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bledington in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Slaughter.

 

[DerekC]

West Meon in Hampshire, like Bledington, has a community shop staffed mainly by volunteers and owned by several hundred local people who each bought a share.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thomas Lord, after whom Lords cricket ground in London was named, spent his latter years in West Meon and died there. He was born in the Yorkshire town Thirsk.