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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boherbue in County Cork also has a place of worship named Church of the Immaculate Conception.

 

[DerekC]

Boherbue's junior football team has recently amalgamated with that from nearby Knocknagree, Co Cork, to form a team named BK Plunketts.. The name is in honour of Sir Horace Plunkett, founder of the Irish Co-operative Movement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salthill in County Galway also has a church that is dedicated to Christ the King.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Salthill, "on the opposite side of" the Republic of Ireland: in Co. Dublin -- an area adjacent to Monkstown (alias Carrickbrennan), near Dun Laoghaire -- a plethora of assorted names !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton in West Midlands also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.

 

[Calthrop]

The wondrously-named Button Gwinnett (1735 -- 77) -- American Founding Father and signatory of the Declaration of Independence -- lived for about a decade in Wolverhampton, before emigrating to America in 1762. He was born in Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire -- just north of Gloucester city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shurdington in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton.

 

[Calthrop]

Shurdington has a pub called the Cheese Rollers: referring to the local custom -- which quite often comes up here, re Gloucester and environs -- of annually rolling cheeses down nearby Cooper's Hill. It would appear likely (the Internet not found to be of much help here) that the most-often-encountered cheese-themed pub name in England, is the Cheshire Cheese. Apart from the well-known hostelry of that name in London; perhaps unsurprisingly, "Cheshire Cheese"-named pubs would seem largely found in Cheshire and adjoining regions. Middlewich, Cheshire, has a pub called the Cheshire Cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmes Chapel in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Croco.

 

[Calthrop]

"Far-fetching", rather: not far away, is Marple Bridge, Borough of Stockport (near Marple proper). Association -- each settlement combines the names of a renowned fictional detective; and of a man-made structure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horwich End in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Goyt.

 

[Calthrop]

Kerridge-end, Cheshire (just north-east of Macclesfield -- nothing, as far as I know, to do with TV chefs ) is also located on the B5470 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whirley Grove in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Macclesfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

In Whirley Grove there is a property delightfully called Whirley House, Wrigley Lane - which also puts me in mind of chewing gum. Said gum is manufactured in a very large factory in Plymouth, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southsea in Hampshire also has a Naval War Memorial,

 

[Tetragon213]

Portsmouth is also on Southsea Island

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farlington in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Portsdown.

 

[Calthrop]

"Birdwatching dept." -- the nature reserve on Farlington Marshes, adjacent to the village, is in winter a good place for seeing avocets. Another good location for this species, is the Langford Lowfields reserve near Collingham, Nottinghamshire (six miles north-east of Newark-on-Trent).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothiemurchus in Highand also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Tetragon213]

Pitlochry is also on NCN Route 7

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardtalnaig in Perth and Kinross also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Rob Roy Way.

 

[Calthrop]

A short distance from Ardtalnaig is a location where in the 19th century, unsuccessful attempts were made to mine gold (also copper and sulphur). Gold was for long mined (with success) at Dolaucothi near Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire -- 8 miles south-east of Lampeter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lampeter in Cerdigion also lies on the route of the A482 road.

 

[D6130]

Aberystwyth is another small-ish town in Wales which is the seat of a university.

 

[Calthrop]

Northampton is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Aberystwyth's "twin" is Kronberg im Taunus; Northampton's is Marburg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a Guildhall.

 

[DerekC]

Dr Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. The equivalent nursery rhyme doesn't say who rode the cock horse to Banbury Cross in Oxfordshire.

 

[D6130]

Eccles in Greater Manchester was also renowned for the manufacture of a particular type of cake.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spotland in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford,

 

[Tetragon213]

Spotland's official "postal town" is Rochdale