Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashe in Hampshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Overton.
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Tetragon213
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The B3400 passes through Ashe. It spits you out at Andover
Xenophon PCDGS
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Penton Mewsey in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Andover.
Tetragon213
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Penton Mewsey, along with Penton Grafton, forms the Pentons in the Andover area
Xenophon PCDGS
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Why on earth I did not choose the one in Haworth near the Bronte parsonage that I have visited numerous times over the years, Heaven only knows.
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D6130
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Hold called: As a past resident of Skipton, I can assure you that there is no church with that dedication in the town. I think you may be confusing it with the church at Hubberholme - nearly twenty miles to the North, at the head of Wharfedale
....which does have a Skipton (BD23) postcode.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yet another case of Wikipedia living in a different universe to us mere mortals....
I shall strike-through the posting that I made, go to jail and not collect the £200 for passing "GO".
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Xenophon PCDGS
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This is the posting from where matters should be continued.
A degree of desperation here: Wiki has, effectively, nothing to say about the Pentons beyond mentioning their existence. However: the Pentons are in Hampshire only by a fairly narrow margin. A little way across the nearby Hampshire / Wiltshire border, is the group of Wiltshire villages and hamlets sometimes referred to as the Chutes. Largest and most prominent thereof (relatively) is Upper Chute, some four miles north-west of the Pentons -- the border lying about halfway in between. The Chutes feature, as well as Upper Chute: Lower Chute, Chute Standen, Chute Cadley, and Chute Forest.
John Griffiths
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The church at Upper Chute was largely rebuilt by the prominent church architect J L Pearson, who also designed from scratch Christ Church, Surbiton, SW London.
High Dyke
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Surbiton was the location of Stoll Pictures, which became one of the largest British film companies of the early 1920s. In 1923 the studio was sold to British Instructional Films (BIF).
BIF eventually moved its production to the more modern Welwyn Studios, at Welwyn Garden City, and Surbiton closed.
BIF eventually moved its production to the more modern Welwyn Studios, at Welwyn Garden City, and Surbiton closed.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bristol also has a church that is dedicated to St Bonaventure.
Trying to see how far-fetched I can get -- if people find this one unacceptably so, I'm prepared to "scrub" it.
Association involves comic / gruesome / bad-taste doggerel verse by bygone-days authors of some eminence. Two such "efforts", on the theme of cannibalism on the part of mariners: in the former, attempted; in the latter, successfully accomplished. Former: Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray -- about the doings of "three sailors of Bristol city". Latter: The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by W.S. Gilbert -- which involves an encounter and tale-telling, long after the deplorable events which are recounted; encounter takes place near Ramsgate, Kent.
Association involves comic / gruesome / bad-taste doggerel verse by bygone-days authors of some eminence. Two such "efforts", on the theme of cannibalism on the part of mariners: in the former, attempted; in the latter, successfully accomplished. Former: Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray -- about the doings of "three sailors of Bristol city". Latter: The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by W.S. Gilbert -- which involves an encounter and tale-telling, long after the deplorable events which are recounted; encounter takes place near Ramsgate, Kent.
D6130
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The Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate is the largest Wetherspoons pub in the UK and the biggest pub in the world. The Moon under Water in Manchester is the second biggest Wetherspoon pub.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rawtenstall in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.
D6130
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Novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie - he of Peter Pan fame - was born in Kirriemuir and went to school in nearby Forfar.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Montrose in Angus was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kempston in Bedfordshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
Place-name-derivation oddities: same theme, very different places. Kempston's name comes from the Primitive Welsh (seems incongruous for Bedfordshire; but one supposes, "millennia ago ...") camm = crooked -- re the settlement's being located on a crook-like bend in its river; plus Old English tun = settlement. More what one might expect in this matter, is the name of Camelford, Cornwall: on the River Camel, whose name derives from the Cornish (related to Welsh) kammel = crooked. So, no involvement of humped bad-tempered but useful creatures ...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberayon in Ceredigion also has a Spiritualist church.
John Griffiths
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Like Aberaeron (anglicised previously as Aberayon, Aberayron), designed in the early nineteenth century, Cwmbran in Gwent is also a planned Welsh new town (of the mid twentieth century).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackburn in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Gabriel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Snettisham in Norfolk is also a settlement where an Iron-Age gold artifact was discovered within its environs.
John Griffiths
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Like St Mary's Church in Snettisham, St James's Church in New Brighton on the Wirral also has a spire that is 172 ft high.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Kirby is also a settlement on the Wirral peninsula with a marine lake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stapleford, a hamlet in Cheshire West &Chester, was also once under the jurisdiction of the Great Boughton Poor Law Union.
NOTE ... Not to be confused with the nearby settlement of Bruen Stapleford.
NOTE ... Not to be confused with the nearby settlement of Bruen Stapleford.