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Glastonbury in Somerset also hosts an annual musical festival.
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Danbury, Essex (near Chelmsford) also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Connecticut.
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In addition to its US connection, Danbury is home to The Aussie BBQ Company, a catering company specialising in spit roasts, barbeque buffets and paella for weddings, garden parties, corporate functions and the like all around Essex.
Another operator purporting to provide an Aussie-style dining experience is Australian Style Catering, which is based in Tonbridge, Kent.
Another operator purporting to provide an Aussie-style dining experience is Australian Style Catering, which is based in Tonbridge, Kent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chipping Ongar in Essex is also a settlement where the Normans chose to build an 11th century motte and bailey castle.
Is paella an Australian thing? All those Hispano-Aussies, maybe...
The "Ongar" in the above-bolded's name, means "in the old tongue", grassland -- "akin to the German word Anger". One might guess that the name of Angmering, West Sussex, came from the same root; but wrongly, it seems -- it's reckoned to have originated as the Saxon settlement Angenmaering, = "Angenmaer's people".
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Great Witcombe in Gloucestershire is another settlement where the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.
Wiki claims Great Witcombe to be in the Tewkesbury district; though the map would show it as not very near Tewkesbury -- a lot closer to Gloucester, lying slightly south-east of that city. Still, the logic of these administrative divisions is not always obvious...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire also holds an annual mop fair.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is "from these general parts". By some accounts, her actual birth was in Chipping Sodbury -- her childhood and adolescence were spent first in Yate, Gloucestershire; later in Tutshill, also in Gloucestershire but on the other side of the Severn estuary.
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Rhayader in Powys also lies on the line of the River Wye.
DerekC
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Rhayader in Welsh means "waterfall" and the same root can be seen in the name of the village Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eglwyscummin in Carmarthenshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Derllys.
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Eglwyscummin is the location of a noted Ogham inscription - the only one in the British islands know to commemorate a woman (well, it is International Women's Day today).
Ogham inscriptions occur on stone monuments, mostly dating from the fifth and sixth centuries. The inscriptions use an Early Medieval form of alphabet and are predominantly in Primitive Irish language.
Another famous Ogham inscription has been found at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
Ogham inscriptions occur on stone monuments, mostly dating from the fifth and sixth centuries. The inscriptions use an Early Medieval form of alphabet and are predominantly in Primitive Irish language.
Another famous Ogham inscription has been found at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
EbbwJunction1
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To commemorate the 70th anniversary of her sinking, the starboard anchor of Mona's Queen, an Isle of Man Steam Packet Company vessel lost off Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo in May 1940, on which many seamen from the Port St Mary area served, was raised on 29 May 2010 and returned to the Isle of Man to form the centrepiece of a permanent memorial. The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has it's headquarters in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire is another settlement where a Viking treasure hoard was discovered.
Balmaghie was the birthplace of Samuel Rutherford Crockett; a seemingly quite prominent gent from 100 -- 150 years ago; of whom I admit I'd never heard, before a just-performed Googling exercise. Dates 1859 -- 1914, he was in the earlier part of his life a Free Kirk minister -- chiefly in Penicuik, Midlothian; and he wrote and had published, a colossal number of -- largely historical -- novels.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Udston in South Lanarkshire was also the scene of a colliery disaster.
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Udston is an areas of the town of Hamilton, as is Ferniegair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Larkhall in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the waterway known as Avon Water.
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Loveclough in Lancashire also has historical links to the calico printing trade.
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The currently "rested" England fast bowler James Anderson was born in Burnley; his usual bowling partner (also currently "rested") Chris Broad was born in Knowle, Bristol.
Knowle's name here, signifies the same as "knoll", a small-ish hill (one being a local feature). The same word and reference some twenty-five miles to the south-west, with Brent Knoll, Somerset -- the village bearing the name of the hill (height 137 metres) at the foot of which it lies.
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Somerset Court, located at the eastern end of Brent Knoll, was built in the late 18th century and is a Grade II listed building. From 1940 until 1968, it housed Hill Brow Preparatory School for Boys; since 1974 it has been occupied by The National Autistic Society, who use it as one of its main centres for the care of autistic adults. The Society also manages a number of schools in the United Kingdom; one of these is Robert Ogden School in Thurnscoe near Rotherham, Yorkshire.
I gather that Thurnscoe is often pronounced "Thunsker" by those who dwell thereabouts. There is also a not-pronounced-as-spelt element concerning Fowey in Cornwall -- pronounced "Foy"; but one has the picture that that phenomenon is universal, rather than a case of a "received", versus a "local", pronunciation.
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The Cornish writer Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863 – 1944) who published using the pseudonym Q. He was born in the town of Bodmin, died at home in Fowey and is buried in the parish church of St Fimbarrus.
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West Penwith in Cornwall is also a settlement with a Cornish stone cross,