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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chesterfield in Derbyshire also has lent its name to an item of furniture.

 

[DerekC]

St Mary's Church in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, also has a twisted spire. Whether the reasons for the twist are the same as at St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, I have been unable to find out.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quatt in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Stottesden.

 

[Calthrop]

Quatt in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Stottesden.

A name which irresistibly brings to mind -- you should forgive me -- ****t on Mainland island, Orkney.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thwaite St Mary in Norfolk has the same place name origin.

 

[Calthrop]

Thwaite St Mary in Norfolk has the same place name origin.

Indeed -- "small parcel of land", or "clearing" -- so take that, all you dirty-minded people ...

Thwaite St. Mary has a military aviation museum of sorts, centred on its World War II airfield. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, also has a -- bigger and better-known -- such museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester in Gloucestershire also hold an annual Advent Market.

 

[Calthrop]

Cirencester's impressive parish church (dedicated to John the Baptist) is sometimes called -- hyperbolically and not strictly accurately -- "the cathedral of the Cotswolds". The same compliment is also often paid to the parish church (of Saints Peter and Paul) of Northleach, Gloucestershire -- some way to the north-east.

 

[John Griffiths]

L S Lowry has also painted scenes in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bamburgh in Northumberland was also a large settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Bryneich.

 

[Calthrop]

In Arthurian legend and commentary thereon, Bamburgh's castle has been tentatively identified as Lancelot's home Joyous Gard. Probably, about as plausible as that: is the identification of Queen Camel, Somerset (north of Yeovil) as Camelot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Montis in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Catsash.

 

[Calthrop]

Cuckfield, West Sussex; also has a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twineham in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Buttinghill.

 

[341o2]

The settlement of Twynham became Christchurch (Dorset) following the construction of the town's priory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[341o2]

Sturminster Newton was once a centre for cheesemaking, Coopers Hill near Brockworth sees the annual cheese rolling festival, participants chase a double Gloucester cheese down it, the winner is the first one to cross the finishing line at the foot of the hill

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forthampton in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tewkesbury Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Forthampton has almshouses designed by the architect William Burges, who also designed and rebuilt Cardiff Castle for the hugely wealthy 3rd Marquess of Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford is another city where its docklands area has seen modern facilities and office development.

 

[341o2]

Salford Quays is home to BBC Breakfast, the team are currently mourning the death of Bill Turnbull, who in his early days was a broadcaster for Radio Clyde, whose studios are at Clydebank

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bo'ness is also a settlement on the line of the Antonine Wall.

 

[Calthrop]

Bo'ness's Hippodrome Cinema is reckoned the oldest cinema in Scotland. The best-accredited candidate for that distinction re England, is probably the Duke of York's Picture House at Brighton, East Sussex.

 

[John Griffiths]

The first London to Brighton car rally took place in 1896, to celebrate the passing of the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which repealed many of the restrictions on the use of motor vehicles. The highest placed British driver (in 4th place) was Henry Stormont Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea [sic] and 8th Earl of Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tavistock in Devon also hosts a Goose Fair.

 

[DerekC]

Francis Drake, hero of the defence against the Armada (although having piratical tendencies), was born in Tavistock, but the house in which he was born was dismantled and transported for use in Lewtrenchard, also in Devon.

 

[Calthrop]

The battle of Gafulford -- in or around 825 AD -- is suggested by some, as having taken place near Lewtrenchard: there are alternative theories; it seems altogether to be a battle about which remarkably little is known. It is apparently recorded that forces of Cornishmen, and Devonians, took part in the battle; but it's not known whether they were fighting each other, or in alliance against other -- unspecified -- party or parties. Another battle in that general era, with an element of mystery; is that of Brunanburh in 937: the English on one side, against an alliance of Scots, Strathclyders, and Dublin Vikings. The big puzzle about Brunanburh, concerns where it took place (basically, no "leads" from the name by which the battle is known): by most reckonings, somewhere in the northerly parts of England -- but there is a long list of possible candidates, including Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brixworth in Northamptonshire also has a church of which a great proportion of the fabric dates from the Anglo-Saxon era.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hanging Houghton in Northamptonshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Brixworth Poor Law Union.

 

[johnnychips]

In the Domesday Book, some land in Hanging Houghton was owned by the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.