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From where you can see Ben Nevis. If you continue south over the mountain, as the high altitude crow flies, you come to Kinlochleven at the head of Loch Leven
 

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from where you can get a ferry to take you to Black Hill on the island in Loch Lomond called Inchmurrin; there is a place called Black Hill in Warwickshire
 

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The composer Gustav Holst was born in Cheltenham.
His Mother was Clara Cox from Cirencester.
 
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Wimbledon is also the site of where a football club left and relocated.

(Wimbledon to Milton Keynes, Derby County from the Baseball Ground in Peartree to Pride Park)

Oh, and if we're on a fruity theme, Wimbledon = Strawberries and Cream!
 
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Mottram-in-Longdendale was the home of a famous clockmaker, Lawrence Earnshaw. Whitehaven was the home of John Benson, an inventor in the same field.
 

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St Michael's Church, Swaton, is also a Grade 1 listed building [as is St Mary's, Astbury]
 

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The Duchess of Gloucester is a patron of St John's School, Leatherhead. She opened the village hall at Scotter.
 

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The church in Llanrug is in a group including Llanberis[already mentioned] and Llandinorwig.
 

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That's a bit of a challenge, being a tidal island!
However, it is linked to the Community of Aberffraw, whose Patron Saint is St Beuno.
He is perhaps more widely-known for the Jesuit Retreat Centre, which bears his name, at Tremeirchion.
 

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