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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boothby Graffroe also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as The Viking Way.

 

[Welshman]

Boothby Graffoe attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle

 

[High Dyke]

Rothwell, Northants is another town with a Royal Charter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hythe also has a church with a bone crypt.

 

[Welshman]

Sandwich

also belongs to the Association of Cinque Ports.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plucks Gutter also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[High Dyke]

The House at Plucks Gutter was a book written by Manning Coles. Another literary piece was The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol; most of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hidcote Bartrim also hosts a notable garden that is currently under the aegis of the National Trust.

 

[Welshman]

Hidcote Bartrim comes under the care of the Anglican Church of St Eadburgha, Ebrington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadway is another of the few settlements to have a church dedicated to St Eadburgha.

 

[Darren R]

The church of St Eadburgha Ebrington is the burial place of Sir John Fortescue (c1394 - c1480), one time Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and an influential author concerning English Law. The John Fortescue Society is still joined by law staudents at his old college, Exeter College Oxford.
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Broadway was the home of Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of his best known works, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, was written specifically to be performed at the cathedral in Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Guildhall.

 

[Darren R]

The English Parliament has also sat in Oxford

 

[dzug2]

Cardington was also associated with airships - though real ones as opposed to the fictitious ones in the Lyra novels.

 

[Welshman]

Matthew Arnold wrote of Oxford as the City of dreaming spires.
He was born in Laleham, Middlesex.

Tish!!
I'll have to keep Matthew Arnold for some other time.


Samuel Whitbread, the brewer, was born in Cardington.

He later became MP for Bedford.

 

[Darren R]

Newport Pagnell was also a centre for the lace history.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milton Bryan also lies on the line of the River Ouzel.

 

[dzug2]

Sydenham became the home of the Crystal Palace, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, who was born in Milton Bryan
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Milton Bryan also lies on the line of the River Ouzel.

Not sure it does actually - near, but not on

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Anerley is also an area that was served by the Croydon Canal.

 

[High Dyke]

The Staffordshire town of Leek also has one of the oldest cycling clubs in Great Britain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Combridge also lies on the line of the River Churnet.

 

[High Dyke]

There are a number of examples of the Combridge name shown. One such person is Francis Combridge. (b) c1685 (d) 1727

He is buried in the cemetary of St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, Kent.

 

[Darren R]

Penshurst was the birthplace of Henry Stafford, the 1st Baron Stafford, in 1501. He was the eldest son of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton was also a medieval woollen "staple" town.

 

[High Dyke]

Bolton also has a football team with Wanderers in their name.

 

[12CSVT]

Ipswich is mentioned in Monty Python's dead parrot sketch

 

[Darren R]

Ipswich is on the River Orwell. George Orwell wrote "The Road to Wigan Pier."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton-in-Ashfield also has historical links to coal mining.

 

[Welshman]

Apparently, the first supermarket to host a wedding ceremony was at Asda, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
In the past, the blacksmith's forge at Gretna Green used to be another unconventional place for such a ceremony.

 

[Darren R]

The last "anvil priest" to perform such wedding ceremonies - until The Marriage (Scotland) Act of 1939 outlawed them - was Richard Rennison, who performed 5,147 ceremonies. He died in 1969 in Haltwhistle.