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The Elizabethan explorer Martin Frobisher was born in Altofts. His first expedition to Canada set sail from Greenwich in London.
 
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Paul was also destroyed by a raid on it by Carlos de Amésquita,
 

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Newlyn is noted for its manufacturing of copperware. Evidence of copper mining in ancient times has been found at Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
 
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Handsworth, between Birmingham and West Bromwich, also has a body part at the start of its name.

Random fact: West Bromwich is so named as it is to the west of Bromwicham - today's Birmingham.
 

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Benjamin Huntsman was a famous Quaker who was buried in Handsowrth(Sth Yorks) but was born in Epworth
 

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Hallaton is another village that host an ancient custom involving teams of people and an odd object.
 

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The parish church of Uffington, Berkshire, also has an octagonal tower.

Uffington was translated from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in the county boundary changes of 1974.

Tideswell has a Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist with a collequally used title of "The Cathedral of the Peak"...the parish church referred to in Uffington above, dedicated to St Mary, is also collequally referred to as "The Cathedral of the Vale"
 

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Needless to say, Tideswell does not really have a cathedral, in spite of its church's grand "nickname". St Peter's in Brighton is also sometimes labelled a cathedral in common usage, in spite of not having said status officially.
 

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Needless to say, Tideswell does not really have a cathedral, in spite of its church's grand "nickname". St Peter's in Brighton is also sometimes labelled a cathedral in common usage, in spite of not having said status officially.


Isn't that pelagian, in so far as Uffington Church is often called "The Cathedral of the Dale" but is not a cathedral, and Tideswell is often called "The cathedral of the Peak" although it is not a cathedral either.

Therefore to repeat the association with St Peter's Brighton, which is also not a cathedral, is using the same association.

So, the subject should be Tideswell, to which I offer:-

Tissington

which also has well-dressing ceremonies.
 
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Hmm. A somewhat careless "error" there; sorry! Sorry also to Paul for not getting round to this earlier.

From Tissington:

Lichfield is also just off the A515.
 

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Broomley

is also a small village in Northumberland that the average person on the Clapham omnibus will never have heard of, unless s/he plays this fascinating and educational game.
 

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Edinburgh

is another settlement frequently mis-spelled [Edin-borough, instead of burgh]
 

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In addition to Haddington Town Hall, William Adam also designed Robert Gordon's Hospital [now a public school] in Aberdeen.
 

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