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Welshman

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Boston's parish Church in Lincolnshire[the Stump] is also dedicated to St Botolph, the patron saint of travellers.
 

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Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe the very famous Cornish entomologist lived for a long time in Trewhiddle but as I'm certain everybody knows he was born in Penzance.
 

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Equally well, I'm sure everyone, too, also knows that Philip Rashleigh, who documented the Trewiddle Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, was MP for Fowey
{"Not him again, I can hear you saying}
 

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"Bursley" is Arnold Bennett's name for Burslem in his "Five Towns" novels, and it also gives its name to an Academy in Newcastle-under-Lyme
 

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Kings Lynn used to be called Bishop's Lynn similar to Bishops Nympton in Devon.
 

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The golfer Luke Donald used to live in Kings Langley but was born in
Hemel Hempstead.
 

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