Per Wiki, Rainham is home to the first-ever oast house theatre (called, unsurprisingly, the Oast House Theatre). Something of a stretch perhaps; but there is in Manchester, a pub / restaurant called the Oast House -- name picked at random, one rather feels: I for one, don't associate oast houses with the north of England.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Chadderton in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irk.
D6130
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Kearsley in Greater Manchester was also once the site of a coal-fired power station.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Haughton Green in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St John Fisher.
"Quasi-namesake department" -- Shropshire, and neighbouring Powys, seem to be absolutely chock-full of villages called "just plain" Haughton. One of the better-known of these, would seem to be Haughton some four miles north-east of Shrewsbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Quatt in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Stottesden.
The polymath Charles Babbage (1791 -- 1871) -- renowned for, among many other accomplishments, devising a forerunner of the modern computer -- dwelt briefly in the early 19th century at Dudmaston Hall, near Quatt. Babbage (family resident in London) was sent at the age of eight, to recover from a life-threatening fever: for a brief sojourn at a country boarding-school at Alphington, Devon -- just west of Exeter.
High Dyke
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The Church of St Peter in Zeal Monachorum, Devon also has bells cast by the Bilbie family, local bell-founders.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nymet Rowland in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of North Tawton and Winkleigh.
Wiki tells us that "Nymet Rowland achieved brief prominence in the 1870s as the home of the Cheritons (nicknamed the 'North Devon Savages'), a farming family living under primitive conditions whose lifestyle caused national outrage". There tends a little to come to mind, the ?mythical ?real-life, Sawney Bean and his cannibal tribe and their 16th-century reign of terror near Ballantrae, South Ayrshire; though the Cheritons were, presumably, not actually into cannibalism...
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Macherquhat in South Ayrshire also lies on the route of the B7044 road.
I am informed there is a fine example of a medieval period farmstead within its environs.
I am informed there is a fine example of a medieval period farmstead within its environs.
Lawks, Mr. Xenophon -- you don't half set some stinkers. However -- no surrender ! One might imagine ferocious and militant Scots in times past, vowing to mount an invasion of England going very far south: including wreaking destruction and havoc on a Shropshire settlement featuring five posts back -- "mash a Quatt". Similar trans-lingual awful wordplay: one might think Kilfenora (Co. Clare -- near Ennistymon) to refer to some affair of honour, involving homicide to wipe out a slight on a lady of the name in the third and fourth syllables; but one would be wrong.
D6130
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Carrickfergus in Co. Antrim also has a well-known ceili band.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Biggar in South Lanarkshire also has a Gasworks Museum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.
John Griffiths
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As an interesting example of how original places names get corrupted over time, both Nottingham and Sneinton (Notts)commemorate the euphoniously-named Snott, or Snotta: Snott's ham and Snott's ton respectively.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burton upon Stather in North Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.
John Griffiths
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Burton upon Stather has a pub called The Sheffield Arms, as did (until 2015) the Sheffield district of Grimesthorpe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Whiston in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke the Evangelist.
Stuart Maconie -- radio DJ and television presenter, writer / journalist / critic working in the field of popular music and popular culture, and keen rambler and outdoorsman: was born in Whiston. One of his books is titled Long Road from Jarrow [Tyne and Wear -- no doubt an allusion to the famous 1930s March] -- a journey through Britain then and now. (Maconie's writings as in my experience [I haven't read Long Road...] rather annoy me; but then I'm a freak who have always disliked "popular music" in all its forms -- feeling got, though, that his heart is in the right place.)
John Griffiths
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Jarrow is connected by pedestrian and cyclist tunnels to Willington Quay in North Tyneside.
Tetragon213
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A certain engineer by the name of Robert Stephenson was born in Willington Quay. A certain machine he designed won a certain trial at Rainhill (Merseyside)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cronton in Merseyside was also once under the jurisdiction of the Prescot Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cheddar in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Apostles.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dumbarton in West Dumbartonshire also has a maritime museum.
D6130
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Dumbarton Is situated at the confluence of Scotland's shortest river - the Leven - and the Firth of Clyde. The Leven flows out of Loch Lomond at Balloch, about five miles to the North.
John Griffiths
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Balloch lies at one end of the A821 road; at the other end lies Stirling.