EbbwJunction1
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The Northern boundary of Soho is Oxford Street, which forms part of the A40 Road from London to West Wales. The Western end of the road is Fishguard in Pembrokeshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Coed Gelli-fawr in Pembrokeshire is also on the route of the Gwaun Valley Trail.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Kingsdown in Kent is another settlement to have an 11th century church that is dedicated to St Edmund.
Springs Branch
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Brands Hatch motor racing circuit is located in the vicinity West Kingsdown.
Another well-known racing facility, Donington Park, is near the Leicestershire village of Castle Donington.
Another well-known racing facility, Donington Park, is near the Leicestershire village of Castle Donington.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Honiton in Devon also has long historical links to lace making.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandwich in Kent was another of the original Cinque Ports.
EbbwJunction1
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Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich has hosted The Open Championship on 15 occasions since 1894. This is the English course that has been used the most; second on the list is the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Wirral, which has done so 12 times since 1897.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldeburgh in Suffolk is another settlement who suffered from a lifeboat disaster.
Springs Branch
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Master ghost story writer M.R. James used Lowestoft as the model for the fictional settlement Burnstow in his story Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.
Another real-life inspiration for one of his tales (A Vignette) is the rectory in the Suffolk village of Great Livermere.
Another real-life inspiration for one of his tales (A Vignette) is the rectory in the Suffolk village of Great Livermere.
James's A Vignette is not the only "spooky" aspect of the above-bolded settlement: this village has been widely reckoned to be the venue of a number of hauntings -- "factual" as it were, as distinct from fictional. Another reputedly highly-haunted settlement is Beaminster, Dorset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mapperton in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Beaminster Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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Mapperton is on an unmarked minor road leading from the B3163, which passes through the village of Beaminster Broadwindsor in a westerly direction.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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EbbwJunction1
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Sorry ... location changed!
Yet more about Charlie Two and his escape after the Battle of Worcester -- one of the many places where that personage briefly stayed during his complicated flight to exile in France, was Broadwindsor. Another, toward the end of the episode: was Hambledon, Hampshire.
EbbwJunction1
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Hambledon in Hampshire is known as one of the early locations of major cricket matches. Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London is a modern day major cricket ground.
John Griffiths
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The Abbey Road studios in St John's Wood are close to probably the most famous zebra crossing in the UK; these crossings were first trialled in Britain in 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne being the zebra guinea pig.
(My italics) -- initial slightly bewildering visions of a black-and-white-striped small cuddly rodent; but I get your meaning !
Birmingham is another English city with an officially recognised; and valued for tourist-attracting; Chinese quarter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aston was also once under the jurisdiction of the Birmingham Poor Law Union.
Springs Branch
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One unmissable feature of Aston is the A38(M) Aston Expressway cutting through the middle of the district.
The A38 is one of the longer English A-roads, running from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire south-west as far as Bodmin.
The A38 is one of the longer English A-roads, running from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire south-west as far as Bodmin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bedminster was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Poor Law Union.
DerekC
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Part of Bedminster is known as Windmill Hill, also the name of a village in East Sussex.
PS - I am determined to find a picture of the zebra guinea pig!
PS - I am determined to find a picture of the zebra guinea pig!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hellingley in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Dill.
Alfriston, East Sussex, is also located on the River Cuckmere, further down its course. (The H-village here boasted in the past, a railway curiosity which I'd have loved to mention; but of course, "not on the menu" in this game !)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gautby in Lincolnshire also has an illustrated village sign.
In Gautby parish church there is an incised-slab memorial recording the murder of Frederick G. Vyner, of the local family of gentry, by Greek brigands in 1870. A parallel such commemoration of violent death in foreign parts is a plaque in the parish church of Bishop's Stortford, a propos Private Ernest William Boyden: killed at Thaba N'chu, near Bloemfontein, in the Boer War.