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Galston in East Ayrshire also lies on the line of the River Irvine.

 

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Galston Parish Church was designed by John Brash of Glasgow and built in 1809 on the site of a pre-Reformation church. The Chancel was added in 1912 and a three-manual pipe organ by James Jepson Binns (c1855 – 1928), who was a pipe organ builder based in Leeds. Another example of his work can be found at St Catherine's Church, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.

 

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Skaw, Unst, Shetland Islands was also the location of a Chain Home radar station.

 

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Skaw is a settlement located north of Haroldswick on a peninsula in the northeast corner of Unst, and is the most northerly settlement in the United Kingdom. It is currently inhabited by a single inhabitant whose business is sheep farming. For many years, Haroldswick Post Office was the most northerly in the UK and visitors could get a special postmark. Since the office's closure in 1999, this record is now held by the post office in Baltasound, also on Unst.

 

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 Westcott in Surrey also has a notable bus shelter.

 

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Wotton in Surrey also lies on the line of the waterway, known as Pipp Brook.

 

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Storrington, West Sussex also lies on the Greensand Ridge, also known as the Wealden Greensand. It is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.

 

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Storrington's name is traceable back to the Domesday book and means "a place associated with storks". It is good to read that it is now a place where white storks are breeding again in the UK. Some of the storks come from the Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire where previously injured storks collected at Warsaw Zoo are treated, rehabilitated and encouraged to breed. Their offspring are released into the wild.

 

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Not to be confused with Burford, Shropshire

 

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The local civic society (Tenbury and Burford Civic Society) covers Tenbury and Burford, underlining how these settlements form one community, despite being located in different counties (Worcestershire and Shropshire respectively).

 

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Tadcaster, North Yorkshire also suffered the collapse of a road bridge.

 

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Tadcaster is famously the home of John Smith's and Sam Smith's breweries. John Smiths is now owned by Heineken. Sam Smiths is still independent and owns about 200 pubs, mainly in the north but with quite a few in London. The Anchor Tap in Southwark is now a Sam Smiths pub, having once been the brewery tap for the Courage Brewery which stood near Tower Bridge. The brewery is gone and the pub has a notice which I can't recite verbatim, but reads something like "This house was part of the John Courage brewery and served their beers for over a hundred years. Fortunately we had a change of heart and now serve Sam Smiths".

 

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Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

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Exeter has also been a UNESCO City of Literature.

 

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The Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell's, Exeter, on 28th January 1834. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". He died on 2nd January 1924 at his home at Lew Trenchard (or Lewtrenchard), Devon and was buried next to his wife in St Peter's Church.

 

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Thrushelton in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Lifton.

 

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The civic parish of Thrushelton adjoins that of Bratton Clovelly.

 

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Okehampton in Devon also lies on the route of The Pack Horse Trail.

 

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The Anglican parish church of All Saints, Okehampton has Saxon origins. The medieval building was reconstructed in 1447, but was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1842. Another reconstruction followed, overseen by John Hayward (1807 – 1891) who was a Gothic Revival architect based in Exeter, Devon, who gained the reputation as "the senior architect in the west of England". He incorporated an 80 ft granite ashlar tower which survived the fire into the new church. Another of his works is the rebuilding in 1844 – 1845 of St Michael's church, Sowton, Devon.

 

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Sowton is the site of a mediaeval palace built for the Bishops of Exeter in the 13th century. Bishops Waltham in Hampshire is the location of a comparable palace built in the 12th Century for the Bishops of Winchester. The palace in Sowton has been maintained as a building and is still in use as a country house, Bishops Court. However the palace at Bishops Waltham was used as a Royalist stronghold in the Civil War. It was subsequently slighted by the Parliamentary Army and left a ruin.

 

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William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. William died at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire on 27 September 1404. In 1349, Wykeham was described as a chaplain when he was appointed rector of Irstead in Norfolk

 

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Dilham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Ant.

 

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The River Ant is navigable for river craft as far as Dilham, but small boats can pass along the officially disused North Walsham & Dilham Canal as far as Honing, Norfolk.

 

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Irstead in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Tunstead.

 

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St Michael's, Irstead, is part of the local Dragon Trail which includes St Benedict's Church at Horning, St Catherine's Church at Ludham and St Benet's Abbey.

 

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Potter Heigham in Norfolk also lies on the route of the A1062 road.

 

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The Museum of the Broads was opened in Potter Heigham in 1996, and moved to its current location at the Poor's Staithe in Stalham in 1999.

 

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Waxham in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Happing.

 

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Waxham Great Barn is one of the longest mediaeval barns remaining in England. At 56m, it is about 5m longer than the better known barn at Bradford on Avon, but looks much longer than that because of its lower pitched thatched roof.

 

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The English journalist, radio and television presenter Hugh Scully (1943 – 2015) was best known for being the host and longest-serving presenter of the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow from 1981 to 2000. He was born in Bradford-on-Avon and died at his home in Tresillian, Cornwall.