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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haverthwaite in Cumbria also lies on the route of the B5278 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Haverthwaite has a pub called the Anglers Arms. This appears to be a popular name in the North of England, for inns with a piscatorial theme; further south, and in Ireland, "Anglers Rest" seems commoner. (Use or not, and placement, of apostrophes; would seem to vary from pub to pub.) Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, has an Anglers Rest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lacken in County Mayo also has an example of a megalithic court tomb within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Lacken lies some five miles south-east of the headland called Downpatrick Head. A better-known bearer of that name is of course Downpatrick, the county town of Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gairloch in Wester Ross is another settlement where archeological investigations have revealed the presence of Bronze Age roundhouses.

 

[Calthrop]

Jellyfish of various species are becoming progressively more abundant in British waters generally, especially in summer. Places mentioned in recent times as especially "jellyfish-rich" (not a situation desired by everyone) are Gairloch; and Barmouth, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolgellau in Gwynedd also lies of the route of The Mawddach Trail walking trail.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Menai Bridge has also hosted the Urdd National Eisteddfod.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandysilio in Pembrokeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Tysilio.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village and community of Llandysilio includes the village of Four Crosses, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangattock Lingoed in Monmouthshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Offa's Dyke Path.

 

[Springs Branch]

The parish church at Llangattock Lingoed is dedicated to Saint Cadoc, a 6th century Welsh saint.

There are several other churches in Wales dedicated to St Cadoc, including at the village of Raglan in Monmouthshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trellech in Monmouthshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Raglan.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a nature reserve near Trellech which is good for orchids; and another whose most impressive feature is the same, at Hartslock near Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gainsborough in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury.

 

[Calthrop]

It has been suggested -- without any certainty -- that the famous stunt with the tide by King Canute (Cnut the Great, King of England 1016 -- 1035) took place at Gainsborough, featuring the River Trent's tidal bore (the "proper" seaside makes a better story). For Cnut's conquest of England, first landfall by him and his forces was in 1015 at Sandwich, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings in East Sussex was also one of the original Cinque Ports.

 

[Calthrop]

Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire; is also twinned with a town in Belgium. Hastings's "twin" is Oudenaarde -- presumably, re both having been the location of celebrated battles (1066 and 1708, respectively); Hoddesdon's is the -- famously picturesque-and-in-scenic-surroundings -- Dinant: one has to feel, an example of the frequent phenomenon of making the choosing of twin settlements, as inappropriate and incongruous as possible.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheathampsted in Hertfordshire also lies on the line of the River Lea.

 

[Calthrop]

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886 -- 1959) -- surviving participant in Scott's 1912 South Pole expedition, and author of The Worst Journey in the World, an account of his taking part in a nightmarish "sideshow" of that venture, objective the study of emperor penguins: spent much time around Wheathampstead, near to where his family estate was situated; and is buried in Wheathampstead churchyard. He was born in Bedford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luton has also lent its name to a commercial road vehicle.

 

[Calthrop]

Arthur Hailey, thriller author, was born in Luton. Frederick Forsyth, ply-er of the same trade, was born in Ashford, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruckinge in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the East Ashford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

With my fondness for the corvid bird "tribe": Ruckinge's name comes from the Old English hrocing = "rook wood". Also with a name derived from this bird family, is Magpie Green, Suffolk -- a little way west of Diss.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Palgrave in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Hartismere.

 

[Calthrop]

Burgh Castle, Norfolk, also lies on the River Waveney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wramplingham in Norfolk also has a round-tower church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[DerekC]

The author Bill Bryson, writer of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Notes from a Small Island and many others, most of which are on my shelf, lived in Wramplingham for ten years not so long ago. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa (outside the scope of this thread) but is also well known for his connection to North Yorkshire, where he lived at Kirkby Malham in the 1980s and 90s.

 

[Calthrop]

The author Bill Bryson, writer of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Notes from a Small Island and many others, most of which are on my shelf, lived in Wramplingham for ten years not so long ago. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa (outside the scope of this thread) but is also well known for his connection to North Yorkshire, where he lived at Kirkby Malham in the 1980s and 90s.

(I like what Bryson has to say about his coming from Des Moines [which is -- one gathers -- a not unpleasant, but not very exciting city]: "Somebody has to".)

Aberystwyth also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Neath also has the site of a Celtic hill fort within its environs.