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[D6130]

Chichester in West Sussex also has a cathedral with a detached bell tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Chichester features in a limerick of a certain degree of rudeness; as does Salisbury in another such -- both involving persons in Holy Orders.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford in West Yorkshire also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Barrel getting scraped -- involving recycling of a post of mine from a couple of months ago. Some century-and-a-half ago, Bradford had an evil reputation -- owing to completely unrestrained heavy industry -- as the most polluted, especially air-wise, town in England -- foul conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, horrendous child mortality. At that time, Widnes (Borough of Halton, Cheshire), was seen as in very much the same case, for the same reasons -- described as "a poisonous hell-town". I entertain a fantasy -- with humans being highly contrary -- about these two towns, mid-19th-century: being perversely adored, despite everything, by their city fathers and lesser inhabitants -- in fact taking a pride in their filthiness and unhealthiness; and being ardent rivals as to which was the muckier and nastier -- each claiming proudly to be more so, than the other. (The more thus, with Bradford being in Yorkshire; and Widnes having been until 1974's county-readjustments, in Lancashire .)

 

[Tetragon213]

Directly across the Mersey from Widnes is Runcorn

 

[A Challenge]

St Ives, Cambridgeshire also has a Guided Busway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earith in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

 

[High Dyke]

Earith, like numerous other places has seen its share of flooding; the Battle of Earith Gap in 1947. However the river also gives us the opportunity for sport.

The rules of Bandy, a sport similar to ice hockey, were first published in 1882 by Charles Goodman Tebbutt of the Bury Fen Bandy Club, based at Earith.

The earliest definite reference to the sport of cricket is dated Monday, 17 January 1597. It is a deposition in the records of a legal case at Guildford, Surrey, regarding usage of a parcel of land. John Derrick, a coroner, testified that he had played cricket on the land when he was a boy in about 1550.

That probably explains why Surrey fans think the club is so marvellous.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godalming in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.

 

[Tetragon213]

Wireless Operator Jack Philips (the operator of the ill-fated Titanic) was born in Godalming. The ship was registered in Liverpool

 

[High Dyke]

Between 1830 and 1930 about forty million people left Europe in search of a new and better life.

About nine million of them sailed from Liverpool, then the largest emigration port in the world. As part of that journey many passed through the East Coast port in the city of Kingston upon Hull.

 

[A Challenge]

Derry/Londonderry (take your pick) in Northern Ireland has also been UK City of Culture.

 

[D6130]

Strabane in County Tyrone is also situated on the River Foyle.

 

[A Challenge]

The Northern Irish version of the A5 and A38 roads meet in Strabane. The GB versions of these roads meet at M6 Toll Junction 4 in the vicinity of Shenstone in Staffordshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Norton motorcycles were manufactured at Shenstone for a number of years after 1978 (a good friend of mine had a Norton and I went on many journeys as a pillion passenger, never quite losing the fear of counterintuitively leaning in the direction of the ground while cornering). The company was founded by James Lansdowne Norton in Birmingham, in 1898.

 

[Calthrop]

Being corny my kind of way: apologies -- but Sheffield also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Alabama.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mary, Queen of Scots, was also a resident of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire.

 

[High Dyke]

The Nene Way, a long distance footpath, broadly follows the course of the River Nene. It starts in Badby, Northamptonshire and passes through Fotheringhay, as it wends its way, before finally ending in Lincolnshire,

 

[Calthrop]

In times gone by -- up to about a century-and-a-half ago -- Badby was big on the Morris-dancing scene. For various reasons, that ceased to happen there; however, Cecil Sharpe and the composer George Butterworth visited Badby around 1910; and sought memories on the part of older villagers, re the Morris dances and tunes, and other details of that bygone scene there. Dances-and-tunes material was thus preserved for posterity -- some of same, quite widely popular with modern Morris sides: with particularly among those, the Moulton Morris Men of Moulton, Northamptonshire -- just north of Northampton, and some 15 miles east of Badby.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire also has a pub called The Artichoke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinford in County Mayo also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians.

 

[Calthrop]

There is more than one theory as to the origin of the name of Swinford, Co. Mayo. One such, suggests its being named after Swinford in Leicestershire (roughly between Rugby and Lutterworth): by reason of a connection with the -- Anglo-Irish -- Brabazon family who came to Ireland from Leicestershire in the 1700s, and founded the Mayo settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wibtoft in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lutterworth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Wibtoft in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lutterworth Poor Law Union.

The River Soar rises near Wibtoft; and runs via Leicester and other places, to join the Trent near Long Eaton, Derbyshire. (It would appear that Wibtoft can be seen as somewhat "debateable ground": it lies effectively on the Leicestershire / Warwickshire border -- Wiki classes it as being geographically / address-wise, in Warwickshire; but in the civil and ecclesiastical parishes of Claybrooke Magna in Leicestershire; and, the old-time Lutterworth [Leics.] connection, as posted.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), one of Britain's most noteworthy twentieth century artists, as born in Long Eaton, and early in her artistic career became associated we ith the group of Plein air painters based in and around Newlyn in Cornwall.

 

[Calthrop]

Per the great info-source -- in 1896, Newlyn was the scene of the Newlyn riots, following protests over the loading of fish on a Sunday by fishermen from the North of England; the local Cornish fishermen being members of the Methodist church, and as such, strong supporters of Sabbatarianism. A rather "kindred" -- if tamer -- situation over a hundred years later, in Northern Ireland: a protest in 2008 at the Oval football stadium in Belfast, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster; against the decision by the Irish Football Association to allow matches to be played on Sundays -- "a first in N.I. due to traditional sabbatarianism". A heartfelt demonstration but, admittedly, way short of a riot; but one gathers that riotous doings -- purely football-related -- are far from unknown at this venue.

 

[A Challenge]

The highest value robbery in Northern Ireland was the theft of £26.5 million in cash from the Headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast. With an estimated value of £25 million, the highest value theft in Scotland was of the theft of the painting Buccleuch Madonna from Drumlanrig Castle near Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway.

 

[High Dyke]

The 'Pink Palace' of Drumlanrig, constructed between 1679 and 1689 from distinctive pink sandstone, is an example of late 17th-century Renaissance architecture.

The castle is listed as a Category A listed historic structure. Another such listed building is The Hall of Clestrain, a house, in the parish of Orphir, Orkney, Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

The highest value robbery in Northern Ireland was the theft of £26.5 million in cash from the Headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast. With an estimated value of £25 million, the highest value theft in Scotland was of the theft of the painting Buccleuch Madonna from Drumlanrig Castle near Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway.

There is a monument at Thornhill, to the explorer Joseph Thomson (1858 -- 97): who when not exploring, lived nearby; Thomson's Gazelle is named after him. A link thus, with the Rev. Henry Barker Tristram (1822 -- 1906) -- born not quite in Scotland, but not hugely far away: at Eglingham, Northumberland. Tristram -- theological scholar, traveller, and ornithologist -- has various creatures discovered by him and named after him: including one of my favourite names in the whole "brute creation" -- the bird Tristram's Grackle.

 

[Calthrop]

Re the above -- sorry ! -- @High Dyke: a while ago, I honestly thought you had made a reply to @A Challenge's post #37,377; and then stricken it out. Not looking too closely at the whys-and-wherefores; I made my post #37,379 in response to @A Challenge's -- but looking a moment ago: I see your #37,378 as "not scrubbed"; and a perfectly OK response to @A Challenge's, about "Thornhill and thereabouts". Am really not sure what was happening there; but -- striking out my post #37,379; and, again, apologies.