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Xenophon PCDGS
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As a brief aside, quite a few years ago on the Closed Stations Journey quiz during a trawl through closed Welsh stations in the back-of-beyond", one particular wag made the statement....
"Welcome to Wales, the land of the Consonant"....
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cardiff also has a Crown Court
As a brief aside, quite a few years ago on the Closed Stations Journey quiz during a trawl through closed Welsh stations in the back-of-beyond", one particular wag made the statement....
"Welcome to Wales, the land of the Consonant"....
I'd reckon that the Czech Republic deserves that title even more richly: the Czech language specialises in totally vowel-less words.
Glastonbury also features in a comic poem by G.K. Chesterton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glenrothes also hosts a Music Festival.
John Griffiths
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Blackburn also has a cathedral of the Church of England, but does not have city status.
DerekC
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Alfred Wainwright, author of a famous series of guides to walking in the Lake District and the Pennines, was born in Blackburn. Before he died he directed that his ashes should be scattered on Innominate Tarn, not the ideal place for this game. The nearest settlement, on the other side of Haystacks, is Gatesgarth, close to the eastern end of Buttermere.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Seatoller is another small settlement on the route of the B5289 road.
John Griffiths
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Seathwaite is also a settlement in Borrowdale, although, confusingly and like Seatoller, not at the briny end.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Melrose also has church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
John Griffiths
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The heart of King Robert the Bruce is buried at Melrose Abbey. During his turbulent career he was in 1306 excommunicated, for the murder of his rival, John Comyn, in front of the high altar of the Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries.
John Griffiths
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A Happy Easter to all Settlementeers!
@John Griffiths: you just beat me to it, with gen concerning Melrose ! Find self needing to fall back on works of fiction. P.F. Chisholm writes, in my opinion superb, historical-novels-cum-thrillers set in the Anglo-Scottish Borders at the end of the 16th century: basically from the point of view of the English, "civilised" kind thereof. In one of these, complicated intrigues take the books' hero, Sir Robert Carey, to Dumfries where most of the action takes place; and where he is given a bad time by a favourite of King James VI (shortly also to be James I of England) -- Alexander Lindsay, a most unpleasant person. For a while, James created Lindsay the Earl of Spynie: his seat the castle of that name, near Lossiemouth.
And to you, sir.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kellas in Morayshire also lies on the line of the River Lossie.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Hawkshaw in the Bury district of Greater Manchester is another settlement to host an annual Gala Day in which a girl is crowned Gala Queen.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Stone in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackpool also has a zoo.
John Griffiths
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In 2017-19 the UK town with the lowest life expectancy for women was Blackpool (79.54). The second lowest (79.48) was Dundee.
(source: Office of National Statistics)
(source: Office of National Statistics)
(Paging Mr. McGonagall to produce a poem lamenting the above sad circumstance...)
Eccles also has a "cake"-type item of baked goods named after it.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stalybridge also has an archery club.
John Griffiths
Member
Faversham was also twinned with a town referenced in a popular World War One song (Faversham was formerly twinned with Ypres - 'Far, far from Wipers I long to be' - Stalybridge is twinned with Armentieres - 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres... parlez vous')
The late-16th-century play Arden of Feversham [spelling variant] -- about the murder of Thomas Arden of that town -- is thought possibly to be by Christopher Marlowe, or possibly by Shakespeare. Another Shakespeare / Arden connection, involves his liking for the Forest of Arden in his own Warwickshire "patch" -- for instance, As You Like It is set in that Forest. Taking its name from the forest, is -- just down the road from Stratford -- Henley-in-Arden.
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John Griffiths
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Cardiff also has a Montessori primary/elementary school.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Twickenham also has a noted Rugby Union stadium.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Charterhouse in Somerset also was a lead mining area during the Roman occupation of Britain.