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Ballycumber in County Offaly also lies on the line of the River Brosna.
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Wilmslow in Cheshire is also located at latitude 53° 19' N
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gawsworth in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.
An interestingly raffish figure associated with Gawsworth -- a person never heard of by me, prior to recent Googling -- merits quoting verbatim, this Wiki item about him: "A wood near the village known as Maggotty Wood is the burial place of the eighteenth-century dramatist Samuel 'Maggotty' Johnson. His ghost is reputed to haunt the wood." (The full Wiki article about this gentleman is worth looking up.) He had a far better-known namesake and contemporary, in Dr. Samuel Johnson -- poet, essayist, playwright, critic and dictionary-compiler -- also a colourful character in a different way; and considered the most famous person born in Lichfield.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Truro in Cornwall also has a cathedral with three spires.
Also with a name derived from river-related reference in the local Celtic language, is Blaenavon (Torfaen County Borough) = "head of river / river's source". (There is disagreement as to whether Truro's name comes from Cornish for "three rivers", or "settlement on the River Uro".)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Washington in County Durham also has a mining museum.
D6130
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Ellesmere Port in Cheshire also has a large car manufacturing plant.
The author Lillian Beckwith (1916 -- 2004) was born in Ellesmere Port. She is renowned for her series of gently humorous books about life in the Hebrides, where she spent a fair number of years in the World-War-II-and-after, era (the books perhaps appreciated more by folk in general, than by the area's inhabitants). She lived mostly on the island of Soay, off Skye -- the books give a fictionalised version thereof: that island is now virtually uninhabited, so not really counting as a settlement. For some of her time in those parts, she lived in Elgol, Skye.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Torrin on Skye also lies on the route of the B8083 road.
EbbwJunction1
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Torrin school closed in 1961. It served as a training base for the Royal Marine Commandos during the 1940s; the current Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) is in Lympstone, Devon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Topsham in Devon also lies on the line of the River Exe.
EbbwJunction1
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The actor Bill Pertwee MBE (who played the ARP Warden William Hodges in Dad's Army) lived in Topsham for many years prior to his death, aged 86 on 27th May 2013 in Truro, Cornwall.
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Lichfield is the location of the only other three-spired cathedral in England.
An eighteenth-century Lichfield inhabitant of some note, was the poet of the Romantic school, Anna Seward (1742 -- 1809); known for her poetry, as "the Swan of Lichfield". The only poem by her that I've ever encountered first-hand, is one celebrating the scenic beauties of Hoylake, Merseyside -- which struck me as over-the-top-ly portentous doggerel, and had me wondering whether the perpetrator was some kind of female equivalent of McGonagall; but it would seem that Ms. Seward and her poetry were well-regarded by various better-known figures in the arts milieu at the time, and that she was respected-ly active on various intellectual scenes. With the Hoylake poem, she was maybe having an "off day".
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Denham in Buckinghamshire also has a noted golf club.
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St Peter's Catholic College is a coeducational secondary school located in South Bank, North Yorkshire. It is part of the Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, which is a multi academy trust which sponsors 27 academies across the Diocese of Middlesbrough. Another of these is the Sacred Heart Catholic Secondary School in Redcar, North Yorkshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Is Paul Daniels the association in those last two postings?
Is Paul Daniels the association in those last two postings?
EbbwJunction1
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Sorry, link amended.
Historical Yorkshire is said to have nine fully-fledged, "open for business", horse-racing racecourses. One is at Redcar; another at Wetherby (City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkby Malzeard in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Claro Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skeeby in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Richmond Poor Law Union.
Skeeby's former Wesleyan chapel has been turned into a residence. A similar situation obtains with a former Nonconformist chapel in Newbury, Berkshire. (My brother considered at one stage, buying that building to live in; but in the end, didn't do so.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Heptonstall in West Yorkshire also had a Cloth Hall in medieval times.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Harpswell in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
Bit of a touch of the desperate-and-frantics with this one... the long-closed RAF station in these parts, was when opened in 1916, originally called Harpswell; its name later changed to Hemswell, after the village of that name about a mile north of Harpswell.
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Aldborough in North Yorkshire also has a maypole that is used annuallly.