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[Calthrop]

‘Kensington Gore’ is an actor’s slang for fake blood. Real blood is in the name of Reddish in Manchester, where a ditch apparently filled with blood during a battle between the Saxons and Danes..

As we frequently remark, this game is endlessly educational ... I'd been aware of the tag "Kensington Gore", but had no idea what it was actually about.

Flixton in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

It would appear that, anecdotally, Flixton was in times past a "happening" centre of cruel sports involving animals -- bear-baiting, bull-baiting, badger-baiting, cockfighting ... something of a parallel, in the bad old days, with Leslie, Fife; which has its "Bull Stone" -- a large stone to which bulls and occasionally bears were tied before being baited.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Culross in Fife also lies on the route of the Fife Pilgrim Way long-distance footpath.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The War Memorial at Culross was erected in 1921 to a design by the Scottish Architect Sir Robert Lorimer KBE. He was also responsible for the earlier War Memorial at Gullane, East Lothian, which was erected in 1914, reflecting both the immediate loss of life to the community, but also the emotional impact. Although not unique in having such an early memorial it is nonetheless unusual. Names were added as the war continued.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire also lies on the route of the John Muir Way long-distance footpath.

 

[DerekC]

Kirkintilloch is on the course of the Antonine Wall, which once ran from the Firth of Clyde across central Scotland to the Firth of Forth, which it reaches at Carriden House, just east of Borrowstounness (usually known as Bo'ness)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ufford in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary of the Assumption.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Bell Tower of St Mary's Anglican Church, Ufford belongs to the Suffolk Guild of Ringers; another Bell Tower operated by the Guild is associated with the adjacent St. Michael's Church in Beccles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British track racing cyclist from the 1940s to the 1970s Reginald Hargreaves ("Reg") Harris OBE was born in Birtle, Bury on 1st March 1920 and died, aged 72, in Macclesfield on 22nd June 1992.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The mention of Birtle takes me back to my very much more younger days, as that hostelry there was the very first place that I tasted the delights of the pub meal called "Chicken in the Basket"!!! .....However, back to the quiz.....

Carno in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[DerekC]

The cellar of Plas Llysyn in Carno was once the the world's largest centre for the production of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. In Operation Julie in 1976, this location was raided by police along with 86 other locations. Another main centre was a house at Hampton Wick, Richmond, Surrey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The architect Edward Lapidge (who was born in the village) both designed and donated the land for a church, St John's, Hampton Wick, built in 1831. At the same time, he designed St Andrew's Church, Ham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

Cardinal John Henry Newman, Catholic leader and theologian, spent some of his early years in Ham. He died in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

 

[DerekC]

Edgbaston is, of course, known to generations of cricket fans as a location for test matches. Less well known is the fact that Bramall Lane in Sheffield, normally the home of Sheffield United football club, was used for one match, between England and Australia, in 1902.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Sheffield is home to the Sheffield Steelers, who lost the 2018 EHL playoffs to the Cardiff Devils, who play in Cogan, Glamorgan

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lavernock in the Vale of Glamorgan was also once administered by the Hundred of Dinas-Powis.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1897, Lavernock featured in very early wireless-telegraphy-across-the-sea experiments by Guglielmo Marconi. A little later -- re much longer-distance operations and over a longer period of time -- the same personage's work involved an establishment near to Clifden, Co. Galway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chorley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Timperley also has a fictional radio station named after it

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Patricroft in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Bridgewater Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Patricroft in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Bridgewater Canal.

There would seem to be something about Patricroft and early aviation. Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon-Roe, one of the founders of the Avro company, was born there in 1877. He was the first British person to make a powered flight, in 1908; and the first ditto to fly an all-British machine, a year later. He subsequently moved to Hampshire, and lived for a long while in Hamble. Also born in Patricroft was Frederick Powell, a World War I flying ace.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hound in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the South Stoneham Poor Law Union (it changed its name to Eastleigh much later)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Hound is medieval; it contains a stained glass window by Patrick Reyntiens. The east window portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by two angels and was designed by him in 1958–59; two years later, he designed a window for Christ Church, Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Flackwell Heath was famous at one time for its cherry orchards, with scenes of fun and animation accordingly, at picking time. Commemorated presumably, in the name of the Cherry Tree pub in the village. There is also a pub called the Cherry Tree in Washington, Tyne & Wear; which settlement has so far as I know, never been renowned in the cherry-growing business...

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Washington is the ancestral town of the family of George Washington, the first President of the United States. His great grandfather John Washington emigrated in 1656 from Sulgrave, Northamptonshire to the English colony of Virginia.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a Bronze-Age barrow near Sulgrave; there is similarly one near Wykeham, North Yorkshire (near Scarborough).

Washington is the ancestral town of the family of George Washington, the first President of the United States. His great grandfather John Washington emigrated in 1656 from Sulgrave, Northamptonshire to the English colony of Virginia.

@EbbwJunction1: no adverse criticism here, just "enquiring minds would like to know" -- am feeling a bit puzzled (and, admittedly hasty-ish, Googling has not enlightened) -- with the Washington family seeming to have been in Northamptonshire for a long time, "a couple-three" centuries ago (no mention found, of their having moved there from up north): how does Washington not far from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, get in on the George W. act? Anything to do with the female side of the family, surname of course changing upon marriage?? -- though that feels more than a little far-fetched ...

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wykeham lies on the A170 road; further to the west is the village of Thornton Dale (also known as Thornton-le-Dale), the main location of Matthewsons Auctions, as featured in the TV programme "Bangers and Cash".

Regarding the Washington connection, it's rather odd. According to Mr W Pedia, John Washington was born in Hertfordshire, but the ancestral home was Washington Hall in Northumberland. I haven't been able to find anything to say what the connection is, but again my search was very quick via Mr Pedia.

 

[Calthrop]

Wykeham lies on the A170 road; further to the west is the village of Thornton Dale (also known as Thornton-le-Dale), the main location of Matthewsons Auctions, as featured in the TV programme "Bangers and Cash".

Thornton Dale has often been referred to as "Yorkshire's prettiest village" (somehow, for me anyway, the words "Yorkshire" and "pretty", don't sit well together -- many sites of great beauty in Yorkshire; but -- local character, etc. ...) Axbridge in Somerset (near Cheddar) is one of various contenders for the title of Somerset's prettiest village.

Regarding the Washington connection, it's rather odd. According to Mr W Pedia, John Washington was born in Hertfordshire, but the ancestral home was Washington Hall in Northumberland. I haven't been able to find anything to say what the connection is, but again my search was very quick via Mr Pedia.

I'd just used to reckon -- thinking I'd read it somewhere -- that the north-eastern Washington was the place in the old country, which George's family came from. It's seeming a good deal more complicated. At a rather random guess -- perhaps, choppings-and-changings and geographical moves, consequent on the politico-religious strife of the 16th and 17th centuries; which messed things up in various degrees, for very many people?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St John the Baptist in Axbridge was built in the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I Listed Building. It was was restored by the architect John Dando Stedding in the 1880s. He also carried out restoration work at St Mary's Church, Stogumber, Somerset between 1872 and 1875.

Calthrop: You're probably right about various parts of the Washington family moving around, as a lot of families did that.

 

[Calthrop]

The Church of St John the Baptist in Axbridge was built in the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I Listed Building. It was was restored by the architect John Dando Stedding in the 1880s. He also carried out restoration work at St Mary's Church, Stogumber, Somerset between 1872 and 1875.

A bit of a peeve of mine: some fiction authors (whose works in themselves, I don't necessarily dislike) have a habit of borrowing place-names, for the surnames of characters: which strikes me as a basically lazy, and annoying, practice. If they were writing well over half a century ago, I see them opening the rail timetable and selecting obscure stations at random... Georgette Heyer was a big one for this. One instance: in her novel The Toll-Gate, she has a minor character called Gabriel Stogumber. I recall in another of hers, a couple of menials with the surnames Challow (Oxfordshire); and Fimber (East Yorkshire).

Calthrop: You're probably right about various parts of the Washington family moving around, as a lot of families did that.

Reckon so -- in essentials, history is a messy business .