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Hampstead Heath, in Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, also features in Cockney rhyming slang. In that variant of the language, "barnet" refers to one's hair -- from Barnet Fair -- Chipping Barnet's centuries-old annual fair, once a horse fair. Teeth, are "hampsteads" -- from Hampstead Heath.

 

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Heald Green, an area of Stockport, also has a church that is named Christ Church.

 

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Bordering on Heald Green, is the Manchester Metropolitan Borough's area of Wythenshawe; where Harry H. Corbett ("Young Steptoe") lived in childhood and adolescence.

 

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Much Hadham in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Elizabeth.

 

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The sculptor Henry Moore lived and worked for the second half of his long life, in Much Hadham. He was born in Castleford (Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield).

 

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Wingerworth in Derbyshire also has a "Pumphouse Pond".

 

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I learn that Wingerworth's name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Wingreurde = "King's Land" -- ?? -- but I'm not an Anglo-Saxon... There is a village literally named Kingsland, in Herefordshire: a little way west of Leominster.

 

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Pudleston in Herefordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Leominster Poor Law Union.

 

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The chancel of St Peter's Church, Pudleston was restored in 1857 by the English architect Henry Woodyer (1816–1896). Another Church restored by him was St Lawrence parish church, Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire in 1865.

 

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Toot Baldon has a pub called the Mole Inn. "Paging Mr. Grahame": Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, has a pub called the Water Rat Inn. (It's figured that The Wind in the Willows's Ratty, is really a water vole, not a rat -- but "this way madness lies"...)

 

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Coalbrookdale is the place where iron ore was first smelted by Abraham Darby (who was born in Sedgley, Staffordshire in 1677) using easily mined "coking coal".

 

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Tutbury is another Staffordshire town where bull-baiting was once a common occurrence in days of yore.

 

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Tutbury castle was used to imprison Mary Queen of Scots, who was finally beheaded at Fotheringay castle

 

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Tutbury castle was used to imprison Mary Queen of Scots, who was finally beheaded at Fotheringay castle

In the following century (MQ of S executed in 1587) the castle, fallen into disrepair, was dismantled bit-by-bit. Per Wiki, "Local legend has it that the staircase from the castle is now in the Talbot Hotel in Oundle" (about four miles distant).

 

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Lower Glenalmond in Perth and Kinross also has a co-educational independent boarding school.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lower Glenalmond lies on the geological feature known as the Highland Boundary Fault.
The Highland Boundary Fault crosses Scotland, meeting the North Sea at Stonehaven.

 

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Aberdeen also lies on the route of the ancient drovers road known as The Causey Mounth.

 

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The Scottish actor Andrew Cruickshank MBE was born on 25th December 1907 in Aberdeen. He is most famous for his portrayal of Dr Cameron in the long-running UK BBC Television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook, which ran for 191 episodes from 1962 until 1971. Although it is documented that location work for the original series was filmed in the town of Callander in Perthshire, the very first six episodes were filmed in Tannoch Drive, Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.

 

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Rowardennan also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the West Highland Way.

 

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What would l do without Sir Water Scott? In his poem The Lady of the Lake, he refers to the settlement of Rowardennan under the name of "Dennan's Row". He is of course associated most of all with Scotland; but sets a number of his novels in other parts of the British Isles. One such is Peveril of the Peak; which has assorted episodes in a variety of different settings; these including Peel, Isle of Man.

 

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Peel is famous for its kippers as is Mallaig

 

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Oban also has ferry services to the Scottish offshore islands.

 

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Cameron Bridge in Fife also lends its name to the local whisky distillery.

 

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Glenrothes in Fife also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

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Skelmersdale in Lancashire is also one of the postwar New Towns.

 

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Skelmersdale and Litherland were both part of the Hundred of West Derby.

 

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Litherland used to hold an annual gala, with some fame for its associated procession of shire horses and floats from the Liverpool area docks. Another annual event with an emphasis on shire horses -- this one still going strong, pandemics permitting -- is the Hertfordshire County Horse Show, held at the County Showground at Redbourn, Hertfordshire.

 

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The A5183 runs around the south and east of Redbourn, and continues north westerly through Dunstable.

 

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Towcester also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

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Towcester is reckoned to appear in Dickens's Pickwick Papers, as the venue of a wondrously and riotously corrupt Parliamentary election (humorous / slapstick, rather than bitter, satire) -- the town being thinly disguised there, under the name of "Eatanswill" (idea of venal candidates plying the voters with food and booze, in the hope of influencing the way they'll vote). Another settlement used recognisably by Dickens -- this one less radically renamed -- is Blundeston, Suffolk (near Lowestoft). Features in David Copperfield, as the hero's birthplace and childhood dwelling-place: name slightly altered to "Blunde[r]stone".