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[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has river cruise boats who ply their trade to visitors.

 

[Deerfold]

Keighley is also home to a Transdev Subsidiary.

Keighley has Transdev Keighley (Traditionally Keighley & District).
York has Transdev York, traditionally Yorkshire Coastliner, York Pullman, Top Line Travel).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castleford also has a rugby league side whose name now features the name of a carnivore.

 

[Ivo]

Basildon also has a rather cheap nickname that references Las Vegas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skelmersdale was also created under the New Towns Act after the end of the Second World War

 

[dzug2]

Easington is another former colliery town

 

[Deerfold]

The cliffs at Easton Bavents are also falling into the sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holderness is another settlement that has seen properties lost to the sea in late medieval times

 

[Welshman]

Sue Holderness plays Marlene Boyce in John Sullivan's "Only Fools & Horses", which is set in Peckham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Romford was also visited by cattle drovers, especially those who made the long journey from Wales.

 

[Ivo]

There is a road in Romford named Mercury Gardens. Another road name "for" Mercury can be found in Skelmersdale. (Said road is called Mercury Way.)

By the way, are there any other matters in differing sciences that share the same name, as with the element and planet which share the name Mercury?

 

[Deerfold]

Ossett also has a team which plays foorball in the "Evo-Stik League Northern Premier - First Division North" competition.

By the way, are there any other matters in differing sciences that share the same name, as with the element and planet which share the name Mercury?

There's Mars - found in Astronomy and Bromatology.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Batley is another Yorkshire town with historical links to the manufacture of "shoddy" from recycled woollen cloths.

 

[Deerfold]

Ashton in Makerfield is another town with a townswomen's guild.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leigh also has a long historical link to coal mining on the Lancashire coalfield.

 

[Welshman]

Those of a certain age may remember the actress Vivien Leigh, whose ashes were scattered at Blackboys, East Sussex.

 

[12CSVT]

Blackboy tunnel is in the eastern suburbs of Exeter

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribchester was also the site of a Roman fortress.

 

[Welshman]

Harehills, Leeds, also has a parish church dedicated to St Wilfrid.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keeping with matters ecclesiastical....

Nottingham also has a church that is dedicated to the 3rd century theologian and Bishop of Carthage, St Cyprian.

 

[12CSVT]

The River Trent runs through Gainsborough

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich also saw the arrival of Sweyn Forkbeard, the King of Denmark and Norway, who invaded England to avenge the deaths of the Danish settlers in England during the St Brides Day Massacre that occurred in November 1002....Gainsborough was a stronghold established by him in that period

 

[Welshman]

Ham

another settlement in Kent

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think that one of our forum members has/had an avatar with the famous signpost showing Ham and Sandwich.
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Ham

another settlement in Kent

The church of St. Peter in Baylham in Suffolk has flint as a major construction material, as is the case with the church of St George in Ham.

 

[TheEdge]

The mammouth found in West Runton was found in geological strata containing large amounts of flint.

 

[Welshman]

Hook Norton

In addition to producing excellent ale, the Hook Norton Brewery still uses shire horses for deliveries.

[There's a shire horse centre in West Runton]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lindisfarne was also attacked by the Vikings.

 

[Welshman]

Holyhead

is also on a Holy Isle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blandford Forum in Dorset is the site of a prehistoric hillfort (Hod Hill)....the one at Holyhead is Mynydd-y-twr.

 

[Welshman]

Stourbridge

is also on the River Stour, but a different one.