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[Calthrop]

Brixton, south London, has also had a very short-lived greyhound-racing track.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tooting was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Calthrop]

The actor George Cole (1925 -- 2015) was born in Tooting. One of the many films in which he appeared, was The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1963): about smuggling in that part of the world in the Napoleonic Wars era, centred on Dymchurch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wing in Rutland also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an old tale according to which the people of Wing -- in not-very-bright fashion -- tried to keep it forever spring, by making a hedge around a cuckoo so as to keep the bird permanently in the vicinity. This legend is told of various settlements up and down the country; best-known for it, is Gotham (Nottinghamshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birmingham has also been in the path of a tornado.

 

[Calthrop]

Sheffield also has a namesake in the US state of Alabama.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sheffield lies on the River Don, which has its four tributaries, the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf. The Rivelin rises on the Hallam moors, in north west Sheffield, and joins the Loxley at Malin Bridge.

 

[Springs Branch]

According to Wiki, the source of Malin Bridge's name appears a bit uncertain.
But however the name came about, the fact remains that it is shared with one of the regions mentioned in that great British institution, the Shipping Forecast.

Another town lending its name to a Shipping Forecast sea area is Cromarty.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cromarty Harbour was designed by the Civil Engineer John Smeaton FRS (1724 – 1792). Among many other projects, he was responsible for the design of the Coldstream Bridge, which links Coldstream in the Scottish Borders with Cornhill-on-Tweed in Northumberland, which was built between 1763 and 1766.

 

[Calthrop]

According to local legend: when Cornhill-on-Tweed's parish church was enlarged in 1840, an 8ft. man was found buried under the nave. As a matter of historical record -- the tallest Irishman ever, was Patrick Cotter O'Brien: 8 feet 1 inch, born 1760 in Kinsale, Co. Cork.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The female pirate Anne Bonney was born near Kinsale in 1697. She married around 1715 and moved to Nassau in the Bahamas, a sanctuary for pirates. It was there that she met Calico Jack Rackham and became his pirate partner and lover. She was captured alongside Rackham and another female pirate Mary Read in October 1720. All three were sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because both of them were pregnant. Read died of a fever in jail in April 1721 (likely due to complications from the pregnancy), but Bonny's fate is unknown. In 2020, a statue of Bonny and Read was unveiled at Execution Dock in Wapping, London; it is planned to eventually take the statue to Burgh Island in south Devon, which is near the small seaside village of Bigbury-on-Sea.

 

[John Griffiths]

A sea tractor is also used at South Sands, Salcombe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battisborough Cross is also situated within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

 

[Calthrop]

Horrabridge is also nine and a half miles, as the crow flies, from the centre of Plymouth.

 

[John Griffiths]

An image of Horrabridge featured in the opening sequence of the TV series 'Bagpuss', but the bow-window frontage of the shop where Bagpuss, Professor Yaffle and the others live was located in Blean, Kent.

 

[Calthrop]

The Royal Navy had a World War II-era "Hunt" class destroyer named HMS Blean; after the above-bolded settlement's Blean Beagles Hunt. Another ship of the same class was HMS Pytchley; after Pytchley, Northamptonshire -- home of a rather better-known hunting outfit.

 

[DerekC]

Pytchley has a pub called the "Overstone Arms". Confusingly the pub called "The Pytchley" is in West Haddon.

 

[Springs Branch]

According to John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1872 (which no doubt everyone has on their bookshelf), West Haddon held a fair each May.
Another village with a long-running annual village fair is the Essex settlement of Great Holland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gresford (the town in North Wales where the colliery disaster occurred) also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[341o2]

Lymington has an All Saints Road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has a ferry service to the Isle of Wight.

 

[John Griffiths]

Author and aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute Norway lived in Portsmouth in the 1930s. He had previously lived in Howden, East Riding, where he had been working on the R100 airship project.

 

[Calthrop]

Howden has been famous in the past, for its annual horse fair. Appleby-in-Westmorland is still prominent today on that same scene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.

 

[341o2]

Author and aeronautical engineer Nevil Shute Norway lived in Portsmouth in the 1930s. He had previously lived in Howden, East Riding, where he had been working on the R100 airship project.

Actually Shute oversaw the construction of the R101 at Cardington Beds, "The people's airship", while the R100 was a private project regarding design and construction although Government funded

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The Nevil Shute autobiography of his early years in aviation and the R101 Airship disaster

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.

This is the posting from which the quiz should be continued.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.

Kendal also features in the narrative of the folk song The Lish Young Buy-A-Broom.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Launton in Oxfordshire also has a church with a Sanctus Bell.

 

[Calthrop]

Ilkley, West Yorkshire, also has a "twin" settlement in the departement of Manche, Normandy, France. (Launton's twin is Gavray; Ilkley's, Coutances.)