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Littleton in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
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EbbwJunction1
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In the tower of the Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene, Littleton, contains are three bells cast in 1666 by William I Eldridge, who had bell foundries at Wokingham and Chertsey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pyrford in Surrey was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chertsey Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Boxford in Suffolk also has an illustrated village sign.
EbbwJunction1
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Boxford lies on the River Box, a small river, 14 miles in length, that flows through Suffolk. It is a tributary of the River Stour, which rises in Wratting Common, Cambridgeshire, near to Weston Colville, and reaches the sea at Harwich.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fakenham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.
Close by Fakenham there used to be a now-vanished village -- Thorpland -- deserted by its population, by the 16th century. A similar situation obtains concerning the former village of Bockenham, near Lambourn, Berkshire: obliterated by 18th-century agricultural enclosure.
johnnychips
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Lambourn was the subject of a poem by John Betjeman, as was, more notoriously, not too far away, Slough.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leamington Spa also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.
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The seminal gritty kitchen sink drama ChuckleVision was filmed in Leamington Spa for a number of years, having previously been filmed in Liverpool
Springs Branch
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Two vehicular tunnels also carry road traffic beneath a major river on Tyneside, linking North Shields and Wallsend with Jarrow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rotherham in South Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bede.
Sometimes it's irresistible to quote Wiki verbatim: it can have a marvellous way of telling of weird stuff in a solemn, almost sing-song style. Thus: "In the 1480s the Rotherham-born Archbishop of York, Thomas Rotherham, instigated the building of a College of Jesus or Jesus College, Rotherham, to rival the colleges of Cambridge and Oxford. It was the first brick building in what is now South Yorkshire and taught theology, religious chant and hymns, grammar and writing." While it is clear that Thomas's ambitious project here, didn't really get off the ground; a town a good deal further south -- Stamford, Lincolnshire -- was in a real sense for a while in the Middle Ages, a rival to Oxford. There was a schism within Oxford University, about whatever issue(s); for a while, the proponents of one side thereof decamped to Stamford and "set up shop" there. Architecturally, in some respects Stamford has similarities, on a smaller scale, to Oxford.
DerekC
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Lincoln, like Stamford, was one of the "Five Boroughs of the Danelaw", acting as the centre of a Danish Earldom. They lasted only about forty years, from 874 to 918 AD, but the Danish influence on language and place-names was permanent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edlington in South Yorkshire also has an Antiochian Orthodox church.
Springs Branch
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Abandoned brickpits - where a substantial amount of clay has been dug out for brick making - can sometimes reveal interesting geological features, making them Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
New Edlington Brickpit is one such SSSI. Another is the Marks Tey Brickpit at Marks Tey in Essex.
New Edlington Brickpit is one such SSSI. Another is the Marks Tey Brickpit at Marks Tey in Essex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lexden in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Colchester Poor Law Union.
Springs Branch
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Lexden seems to be well-served by buses operated by First Essex, including route 65, which runs from Highwoods to the Essex village of Stanway.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ebrington in Gloucestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Eadburgha.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath.
johnnychips
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Glossop also used to have a brickworks.
DerekC
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The Roman Road known as Doctor's Gate runs from the Melandra fort at Glossop via the Snake Pass to the Navio fort near Brough-on-Noe, Derbyshire. The name derives from a Doctor John Talbot, illegitimate son of the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was credited with improving it in the 15th century.
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johnnychips
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The local legend goes that he entered a pact with the devil to turn lead to gold. When the devil came to get his soul in return, the doctor challenged him to a horse race, rode up the gate, and got running water between him and the devil near Snake summit, which apparently the devil cannot cross - hence the Devil’s Dyke there. Unfortunately I think your explanation is more correct.
Anyway, there is a pub at Brough called the Travellers Rest. Likewise in Grasmere.
Springs Branch
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Rushbearing - a traditional English festival in which rushes are collected and carried to be strewn on the floor of the parish church - still persists in some northern settlements, including Grasmere and Lymm in Cheshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Patricroft in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Bridgewater Canal.