Xenophon PCDGS
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Chittoe in Wiltshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Potterne and Cannings.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Newton Poppleford in East Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of East Budleigh.
I can't resist "twin towns" ones; especially as Newton Poppleford's "twin" is one of a number of communities in France called Crevecoeur = "Heartbreak". Dorchester also has a twin town in the French departement of Calvados, Normandy. N.P.'s "twin" is Crevecoeur-en-Auge; Dorchester's, Bayeux.
LSWR Cavalier
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Tenuous link, twin towns with interesting names..
BANGOR in Wales is twinned with Soest in Nederland. Soest NL is twinned with
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Soest Germany!
BANGOR in Wales is twinned with Soest in Nederland. Soest NL is twinned with
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Soest Germany!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ruthin in Denbighshire has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
A couple of centuries ago Ruthin -- thanks to its position on drovers' routes between Wales and England -- was reputed to have a pub for every week of the year. Nowadays it has, for a population of 5,461, "only" eleven pubs. It is however put in the shade by Feakle, Co. Clare; which we learn has seven pubs for a population of only 113.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tulla in County Clare also hosts a traditional music festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Grinshill also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Shropshire Way.
Around Grinshill are sources of excellent building stone -- Triassic sandstone -- which has been used in various venues of note, including the Prime Minister's country retreat, Chequers; nearest settlement to which is Askett, Buckinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ottery St Mary in East Devon is also a small settlement where lace making has historical connections.
The poet and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary. Another settlement with which he is closely associated, is Porlock, Somerset: when he was living near there, and busy composing his poem Kubla Khan; he was unfortunately interrupted, about something trivial, by a "person from Porlock"; and never recovered his thread or finished the poem.
LSWR Cavalier
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WINTERBOURNE CAME was the home of another poet, William Barnes.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mevagissey in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
johnnychips
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Apparently, the sea wall at Newlyn is the Ordnance Survey’s datum for sea level. The Ordnance Survey is based at Southampton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thorney in Cambridgeshire is another settlement where Walloon Protestant refugees sought refuge.
Springs Branch
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Many of the buildings in Thorney were designed by Victorian-era architect Samuel Teulon, commissioned by the landowner, the Duke of Bedford, who intended to build a model village for his agricultural workers.
Another construction designed by Teulon is the Tyndale Monument in the Gloucestershire village of North Nibley.
Another construction designed by Teulon is the Tyndale Monument in the Gloucestershire village of North Nibley.
Near North Nibley there took place in 1470, the Battle of Nibley Green: the last battle fought in England, solely between the private armies of feudal magnates. A similar affray, between different Scottish clans / barons, occurred a little over half a century earlier at Harlaw, near Inverurie (Aberdeenshire).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tonypandy in Rhondda Cynon Taf is another settlement which in historical times had motte and bailey defensive earthworks.
The name Tonypandy always makes me think first and foremost, of Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time (modern-day folk investigate the historical mystery of King Richard III: conclude with great certainty, that Richard was a very good guy, traduced by the winners in that struggle in the process of their writing the history). The novel annoys the heck out of me: not because I'm particularly pro- or anti-Richard -- just because I find the modern characters and their conversations, highly twee and irritating. One instance of that for me: because of Tonypandy's stormy industrial-relations history, and the unfortunate fact that if read / pronounced "English-wise", the name looks and sounds silly and childish -- the characters adopt "Tonypandy" as a "shorthand" expression for "widely believed historical myths". Another element in this, to me annoying, book: is an (invented by the author) historical novel The Rose of Raby, about Richard's mother Cecily Neville; who was born at Raby Castle at Staindrop, County Durham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Spennymoor in County Durham also lies on the route of the A688 road.
) was born in Spennymoor. She subsequently lived in Byfleet, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tilford in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.
In a cliff by the Wey near Tilford, is Mother Ludlam's Cave: according to local legend, the abode of a white witch of that name, "long ago" (no idea on anyone's part, of any actual date); of whom various strange tales are told. She would seem to have a -- better authenticated historically -- counterpart far to the north: Mother Shipton (Ursula Southeil) of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire: a reputed prophetess and, perhaps, witch -- also with cave-dwelling associations -- who lived from 1488 to 1561.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Finchingfield in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thornham (now part of Rochdale MBC) was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.
DerekC
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The intersection of the M62 and the A627(M) is known as Thornham Interchange. Similarly the intersection of the M4 and M5 is known as the Almondsbury interchange