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Xenophon PCDGS
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Hunts Cross in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.
Getting slightly frantic -- it is speculated that this settlement's name comes from the crossroads at what is now its centre, having been -- presumably in times when these parts were more rural -- the place for the "meet" of the local foxhunt. A "kindred" name belongs to Huntscott in Somerset (four miles south-west of Minehead -- a hamlet in the parish of Wootton Courtenay); Huntscott being in the area which it is in, one suspects that stag-hunting may well have been involved in its naming.
Tetragon213
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Dulverton also lies within the boundaries of Exmoor National Park.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Huish Champflower in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Williton and Freemanners.
Tetragon213
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Sheffield was also once home to a steelworks.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Conisbrough in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Don.
John Griffiths
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A street in Conisburgh called Butt Hole Road had its name changed to Archers Way in 2009. The people of Shepshed, Leicestershire, are less easily embarrassed; the town still boasts a Butthole Lane.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Saxilby in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Botolph.
John Griffiths
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The new village of Burton Waters (Lincs) also lies on the Fossdyke (or Foss Dyke) waterway.
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High Dyke
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Owing to the weight of opposition to the scheme to develop Burton Waters, the application was called in by Environment Secretary, John Gummer for a public inquiry.
At the time John Gummer was the incumbent MP for Eye, Suffolk.
At the time John Gummer was the incumbent MP for Eye, Suffolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thorndon in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Dove.
We learn that the Thorndon Leek Club, founded in 1995, "celebrates the village community spirit through socials, competitions, and local events". One assumes -- though the reference doesn't spell it out -- that the "emblematic" leek mentioned, is the vegetable of that name. It has long been traditionally held, that our islands' first-ranking area for the competitive growing of leeks (including giant ones) is Tyneside and thereabouts. For many years, Ashington, Northumberland -- east of Morpeth -- held the World Champion Leek and Onion Competition.
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High Dyke
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Pitmatic is a group of traditional Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Great Northern Coalfield in England.
Pitmatic was spoken by miners throughout the Great Northern Coalfield — from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham
Pitmatic was spoken by miners throughout the Great Northern Coalfield — from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham
Xenophon PCDGS
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Butterwick in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sedgefield Poor Law Union.
There are perceivably several Butterwicks, including the above-bolded: all "some way up in essentially northerly latitudes" toward the eastern edge of England. I -- always keen to "boost" my favourite county, Lincolnshire -- will link to Butterwick therein: five miles east of Boston.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yetminster in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
A past inhabitant of Yetminster of some note: was Benjamin Jesty (c.1736 -- 1816); a farmer who experimented -- a little earlier than his contemporary Edward Jenner -- with innoculating against smallpox, via use of the less virulent cowpox. Jenner's work herewith is much more widely recognised -- largely, it is felt, because he published / publicised it, which Jesty did not. Jenner chiefly lived and "did his stuff" in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Charlfield in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the Little Avon River.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Darenth in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Axstane.
High Dyke
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Leavesden, Hertfordshire was another location where the Metropolitan Asylums Board founded the Metropolitan Asylum for Chronic Imbeciles.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldbury in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Dacorum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Baltasound on the Isle of Unst also has a church that is dedicated to St John.
John Griffiths
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John Griffiths
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Baltasound is linked to Uyeasound by Shetland Bus service 82, the 'South Unst Shopper'.
Whilst Baltasound and Uyeasound are toward the southern end of Unst -- the most northerly Shetland Island -- the village of Haroldswick is near the isle's northern extremity. Haroldswick's citizens lay claim to their village's being the northernmost settlement in Britain; but inaccurately -- the tiny hamlet of Norwick-Skaw is yet further north. (However, Haroldswick's Methodist Church is indubitably Britain's northernmost church.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkaton on the Isle of Unst also lies on the route of the B9087 road.