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Grappenhall in the Borough of Warrington also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.
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Back to old Sherlock, I'm afraid -- I used him only yesterday; if in a different vein. Some filming for Granada TV's long-running Sherlock Holmes series, was done in the centre of Grappenhall. Another venue used for filming of said series was Tatton Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rostherne in Cheshire East was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bucklow.
I'm "the better for drink", and maybe shooting for the most far-fetched association ever, in this game; but Rostherne has shown up before, and hasn't a great number of features to tell about. I like to come up with new things: so, the mentioned Hundred of Bucklow. There's a short story by one of my favourite "whodunnit" authors, Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling. Involved therein (re "how come" -- no need to go into the complications) is a supposed poem -- fictional, totally an invention of the author's -- by Rudyard Kipling, with the title of The Deliverance of Fort Bucklow. Part of the story is: said poem's having been so screamingly politically incorrect -- even for the 1920s -- that Kipling was shamed, and was the first to fall in with its being hushed up. Kipling's rare first name, Rudyard: was bestowed on him by his parents, who met and fell in love at Rudyard Lake, at Rudyard, Staffordshire.
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clickaway
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If Rudyard has a connection to the Kipling family, then surely so has Bakewell in Derbyshire, famous for its exceedingly good tarts.
DerekC
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We can't really leave Bakewell without mentioning the tradition of well dressing which is practised there and in other villages in Derbyshire. It's done in a few other places too. the farthest flung I can find is Whitwell, Isle of Wight, where the annual ceremony is claimed to have mediaeval origins, but this seems to be doubtful.
Whitwell lies -- at least approximately, and near its source -- on the Isle of Wight's (Eastern) River Yar (to distinguish it from the much shorter Western Yar at the far-western end of the island). Said Eastern Yar meets the sea at Bembridge Harbour (actual confluence disputed between Bembridge and St. Helens -- the Island can be a confusing place).
John Griffiths
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Bembridge is the easternmost settlement on the Isle of Wight; Lowestoft is the easternmost settlement on the island of Great Britain.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Barnby in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mutford and Lothingland Poor Law Union.
Barnby has, off its contiguous River Waveney: as a feature of the Norfolk (and Suffolk !) Broads (= lakes), a Broad by its name: a small, not very well-known, and non-navigable one; which is however, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Belaugh, Norfolk -- some seven miles north-east of Norwich -- is in similar case, with its Broad; this one being off the River Bure.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wood Dalling in Norfolk was also once under the urisdiction of the Aylsham Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Agnes in Cornwall also has a lifeboat station.
We are informed that in times past, anyway: the people of St. Agnes -- mainland Cornwall, as above -- made a point of pronouncing its name like "St. Anne's"; in order to avoid confusion with the Isle of Scilly named St. Agnes. Said island is the UK's southernmost inhabited island: Troy Town Farm, St. Agnes, is the southernmost settlement in the UK.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skaw on the Isle of Únst is the northernmost settlement in the UK.
@Xenophon PCDGS, you do come up with some fiendish ones; occasionally requiring desperate measures ! Skaw as above; can be seen as having a nomenclatorial link with a feature of Denmark: the northernmost bit of that country, the sandy peninsula of Skagen Odde -- known in English, as The Skaw [Spit]. Another such Britain / Denmark close similarity name-wise -- though admittedly not identical -- involves the town of Ringsted on the Danish island of Sjaelland; and Ringstead, Northamptonshire (between Thrapston and Higham Ferrers).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lympstone in Devon also has a church with a name that commemorates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Lympstone holds annually, a traditional Furry Dance celebration -- done processionally through the village by local folk, plus brass band. A better-known custom, the same in "name and nature", takes place annually in Helston, Cornwall. Date of Lympstone's Furry Dance is the first Saturday in August; Helston's is on May 8th except when that date falls on a Sunday or Monday, in which case the Dance is on the preceding Saturday.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bodmin in Cornwall was also one of the Cornish stannary towns.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dysart in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 16th century.
High Dyke
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George Muirhead (1764–1847) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland. He was born in the manse at Dysart, Fife in 1764. He died in Cramond (City of Edinburgh Council area) in 1847.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkliston now in the City of Edinburgh Council Area also lies on the line of the River Almond.
Those Knights Templar seem to have, during their brief-ish heyday, shown up all over the place: including at Kirkliston, whose church belonged to them, "back then" -- in those days, the town was accordingly called Temple Liston. Another Templar place was Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire -- between Stow-on-the-Wold and Winchcombe -- where said Knights had a preceptory.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Upper Swell in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Kiftsgate.
Upper Swell and its contiguous village of Lower Swell, are reckoned the most populous area in the local "Three Rivers electoral ward". "Three Rivers" occurs in a very different context: in the song-in-the-folk-idiom by Vin Garbutt, The Land of Three Rivers -- hymning the glories of the part of north-east England around the rivers Tyne, Wear, and Tees, and of the area's people. In one verse, the song glancingly names other places in England -- anywhere that isn't Tyne and Wear, is of course by definition, inferior -- one mentioned, being Dover (rhyming-wise, often a useful name).
Xenophon PCDGS
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New Brighton in Merseyside is also a settlement in which a coastal defence battery was situated.
New Brighton gets an approving mention by the renowned diarist Francis Kilvert, re a visit by him in 1872: "...beautiful sands stretching for miles along the coast, and the woods wave green down to the salt water's edge. The sands were covered with middle-class Liverpool folks and children out for a holiday." (Such joys were presumably beyond the means of the city's poor.) Kilvert's diaries -- published -- tell in detail, painting a mostly idyllic picture, of life in various rural locations where he was the officiating clergyman; best-known re this "scene", is his record of his spell in the early 1870, as curate of Clyro, Powys -- just west of Hay-on-Wye.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llowes in Radnorshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Paincastle.
Department of obscure Celtic saints: the church of Llowes is dedicated to St. Meilig -- the only church I can find, dedicated to this bod. It is suggested that he may have been a brother of St. Gildas; who has a church dedicated to him at Rosneath, Argyll & Bute -- some six miles south of Garelochhead.