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[High Dyke]

Derby is another location associated with the Jacobite rising of 1745.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calver in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Calthrop]

"Reaching", rather -- Calver's name comes from the Old English for "calf slope". Another settlement with a "calf" connection -- if a tenuous one -- is the village of Cregneash, Isle of Man: nearest settlement on the Manx "mainland", to the islet off Man's south-western tip, called the Calf of Man.

 

[Hamma52]

"Reaching", rather -- Calver's name comes from the Old English for "calf slope". Another settlement with a "calf" connection -- if a tenuous one -- is the village of Cregneash, Isle of Man: nearest settlement on the Manx "mainland", to the islet off Man's south-western tip, called the Calf of Man.

Cregneash was considered the stronghold of the Manx language, with it at one point having the highest percentage of people who could speak Manx of anywhere in the country.

Llanrug, Gwynedd, also holds that claim for the Welsh language, according to 2021 census data.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brynrefail in Gwynedd was also once administered by the Hundred of Isgwrfai.

 

[Hamma52]

Ambleside, Cumbria, can also be found at the northern end of a large lake that's a popular tourist destination.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Baginton in Warwickshire also has remains of a Roman fort.

 

[Calthrop]

The Midland Air Museum is just outside Baginton. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, also has a noted museum devoted to aircraft matters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ickleton in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Whittlesford.

 

[Hamma52]

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, once held an estate in Ickleton (very briefly). Somewhere else that de Valence once held estate was Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland.

 

[High Dyke]

West Kennet in Wiltshire was also used as a filming location for Saving Private Ryan.

Curracloe Beach, near Wexford was used to replicate French beaches.

 

[Calthrop]

Slough, Berkshire, also lies on the A4 main road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, also has a pub called The Navigation.

 

[Hamma52]

Wakefield saw the Battle of Wakefield in the War of the Roses. Another settlement with a key battle in this war was Market Bosworth, in Leicester

 

[Calthrop]

Twenty miles or so south-east of Market Bosworth, lies the similarly-suffixed village of Husbands Bosworth: also (just) in Leicestershire. The only clue re naming, which I can find -- instinctive feeling on my part, "looks a bit dodgy" -- nothing to do with male spouses: Market Bosworth is the -- market -- town; whereas the other one is the farmers' -- Husbandmen's -- agricultural settlement. Hmm... maybe...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Welham in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Markey Harborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Hamma52]

St Neots, Cambridgeshire, is also situated on a river that drains into The Wash

 

[DerekC]

James Toller, an acromelagic giant who lived in St Neots in the 18th Century, is said to have been over 8ft tall. Angus Macaskill the "Scottish Giant" was born on the island of Berneray, North Uist, in 1825 and was about 7ft 9in tall.

 

[Hamma52]

Berneray is linked to North Uist by means of a causeway. So too is Mersea Island, Essex , and its principal settlement of West Mersea.

 

[High Dyke]

Tighnabruaich, Argyll and Bute also has a 'B' Class (Atlantic 85) at its RNLI station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clachan of Glendaruel in Argyll and Bute also lies on the route of the A8003 road.

 

[Hamma52]

Clachan of Glendaruel lies within an area of generally pre-cambrian metamorphic geology, with some sedimentary devonian features found to its south. Another place where an example of this arrangement of geology can be found is Solva, Pembrokeshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Stratford-upon-Avon also has a butterfly farm. (That at Solva -- the Solva Nectarium -- was Wales's first; opened 1979.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carlingford in County Louth also has a place of worship named Church of the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

A means found, of associating Carlingford with Greenore, Co. Louth -- a very few miles south-eastward, along the lough -- which is not to do with the delightful railway byway which served those places, and also Dundalk and Newry, until 1951. There is a quite poignant folk song, with a "sea"- flavour, set in and referring to those parts -- And I'll sing farewell to Carlingford / And likewise to Greenore ...

 

[Hamma52]

Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, also used to have a direct ferry to Holyhead. (Dun Laoghaire was the original principal port for Dublin)

 

[D6130]

Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire also has a lighthouse museum.

 

[Hamma52]

Killin, Perthshire, also has a war memorial created by renowned Scottish sculptor Alexander Carrick

 

[Calthrop]

A pet, if melancholy, theme of mine (and getting back to another of my favourites, the Cooley Peninsula area as in post #38,726) -- the decline of Celtic tongues in the British Isles. Elizabeth Christina McDiarmaid, the last native speaker of Perthshire Gaelic, died at Killin in 2024, aged 92. She had in this, a counterpart on the other side of the Irish Sea, in the village of Omeath, Co. Louth -- last place in the eastern and strongly Anglophone province of Leinster, where Irish was current as a birth-speech -- the lady concerned being Anne O'Hanlon of Omeath, d. 1960 at the age of 89.