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Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.
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The local landowner John Hutchinson of Owthorpe Hall, was one of the Commissioners who signed the death warrant of King Charles I. Another was Sir John Bourchier of Beningbrough Hall, Beningbrough -- a little way north-west of York. (Neither were put to death as "regicides"; but as things worked out, neither lived for long after the Restoration.)
EbbwJunction1
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The racehorse Beningbrough, winner of the 1794 St Leger Stakes, was named after the village. The race was first held, and is held now, at Doncaster racecourse. However, there have been times when, for various reasons, the race has been run elsewhere; in 1989 the race was switched to Ayr after the scheduled running at Doncaster was abandoned due to subsidence.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rawtenstall in Lancashire is another settlement that was chosen to be the recipient of Carnegie public library.
EbbwJunction1
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The British entrepreneur Cyril Lord (1911-1984), who was nicknamed 'the Carpet King', because he was known principally for the manufacture of carpets during the 1960s was born and raised in Droylsden. He established a huge carpet factory in Donaghadee, County Down.
The shortest regular ferry crossing service which has operated between Ireland and Great Britain, has been that between Donaghadee and Portpatrick (19 miles). If I have things rightly: it ceased to run, very well before the end of the 19th century -- superseded by (after a little bit of "permutation-process") Larne and Stranraer.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ardwell is also a settlement on the hammer-head peninsula known as the Rhins of Galloway.
Ardwell used to hold "a Leek Fair, where plants were sold". Further with "Fair + greengrocery" names: for a number of decades past (disrupted by Covid this year and last), Cambridge has held an annual festival of music, entertainments, arts and crafts, called "Strawberry Fair".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Todmorden also hosts a folk festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wimbledon also hosts a noted lawn tennis tournament.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Charlton-on-Otmoor in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ray.
Charlton-on-Otmoor has "an old alleyway, now a bridleway" called "The Tchure" -- "tchure" being a traditional word in those parts, for an alleyway. Deddington, Oxfordshire -- some distance to the north-west -- has a similarly-named alley.
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According to the Pubs Galore website, there are 48 British pubs named The Unicorn which are listed on their site.
One of these is in Deddington, another is in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
One of these is in Deddington, another is in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Pursuing the general theme of "oft-repeated names" as above -- the Wiki article on Richmond, North Yorkshire: mentions that "Richmond" is the most-duplicated UK place name, with 56 occurrences worldwide. Very few actually in the UK, though -- one of those, is the south Sheffield suburb of Richmond.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lowton in the Wigan part of Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine of Siena.
I seem to be stronger in my knowledge of churches than pubs...
I seem to be stronger in my knowledge of churches than pubs...
Lowton used to have a toffee factory. On that general subject: the factory of the up-market toffee firm of Fillerys used to be in Birmingham, but is nowadays in Southport.
I seem to be stronger in my knowledge of churches than pubs...
Obviously, that must be because you're a righteous person...
EbbwJunction1
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Southport RFC currently play their home matches at Waterloo Road in Hillside, and participate in the North 2 West Division of the RFU Leagues. Winnington Park RFC also play in the same division, and their home ground is in the Winnington area of Northwich, Cheshire.
EbbwJunction1
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Sleaford lies on the River Slea, which is a tributary of the River Witham; it rises near West Willoughby, a settlement of the village of Ancaster, Lincolnshire.
Ancaster is located just north of the junction of the ancient road routes of Ermine Street, and that road's easterly variant King Street; this latter essentially followed -- further south -- by the modern A15: on which lies Thurlby, Lincolnshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stowe in Lincolnshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as King Street.
This is a medium-tough one: Stowe, Lincs., as above, features neither on Wiki nor the AA Great Britain Road Atlas. The Wiki entry on Stow, Lincs (north-west of Lincoln -- near the one-time Stow Park station), happened on in the quest; tells of "another Stow [no e] in Lincolnshire: site of a lost village and medieval fair, between Threekingham and Billingborough." (Lincolnshire has wonderful names !) Context and location would suggest a tentative conclusion, that this may be the King Street Stowe.
There is another "lost village" (fallen into desertion centuries ago), in Warwickshire: Dassett Southend, close by the modern village of Burton Dassett, near Fenny Compton.
EbbwJunction1
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Burton Dassett lies on the route of the A4100; the next settlement going north is Gaydon.
The inn at Gaydon is said by Wiki to have been an operational base in the 18th century, for "violent highwaymen" -- as opposed, presumably, to nice ones like Claude Duval in the previous century; who was gentlemanly and sportsmanlike, and would be perfectly pleasant to the people he was robbing, provided that they offered no resistance. Duval operated particularly in the area of Holloway, now in the London Borough of Islington.
Springs Branch
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Maghull, Merseyside, was also the location of one of Her Majesty's Prisons which closed during 2016.
EbbwJunction1
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John Lennon lived with relatives at Cedar Grove, Maghull, for a short while as a result of family issues. For most of his childhood and adolescence, he lived at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton, with his Aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Laffak is another area of Merseyside that once was under the jurisdiction of the Prescot Poor Law Union.