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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lymington in Hampshire is another place where a lido was constructed.

 

[DerekC]

Heysham is also an island ferry terminal

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Heysham also had a large outdoor karting track on Heysham Head where racing legend Nigel Mansell used to race in his teenage years. He was, however, born on 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire.

 

[DerekC]

Cheriton (Hampshire) was also the site of a battle in the English Civil War

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altcar in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Springs Branch]

Croxteth is also on the course of the River Alt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccleston is another settlement that once was administered by the Hundred of West Derby.

 

[DerekC]

Lossiemouth also has a gold post box.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitehills in Aberdeenshire also has a marina.

 

[DerekC]

Newlyn (Cornwall) also has a Fishermen's Memorial

 

[High Dyke]

Cockburnspath is another location associated with an artists' colony.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malmesbury also has a market cross.

 

[DerekC]

Bridport was also fortified against the Danes by Alfred the Great

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southwold also has a long historical connection with rope making.

 

[cjp]

Walberswick is but a short walk and a short ferry ride away from Southwold

 

[backontrack]

Balfour is also connected to a larger town (Kirkwall) by a short ferry ride.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1846 David Balfour inherited the estate and in 1847 he recruited an Edinburgh architect, David Bryce, to transform Cliffdale House into the Scottish Baronial Balfour Castle. David Bryce was also responsible for the design of Glenapp Castle, Ballantrae, Ayrshire in 1870.

 

[backontrack]

Ballantrae is situated in Carrick, the ancient capital of which was Maybole.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has had historical connections to the boot and shoe manufacturing trade.

 

[backontrack]

The First Barons' War caused significant destruction to Northampton. The barons besieged Northampton Castle in protest at King John's oppression of his subjects. In retaliation, royalist forces destroyed a large part of the town. When the forces of King Henry III overran the supporters of Simon de Montfort, the Second Barons' War broke out.

De Montfort now has a university named after him in Leicester.

 

[cjp]

Cheddar also lends its name to a cheese

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Margate also has a shell grotto.

 

[DerekC]

Winchester also has a Theatre Royal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury also has a large public school.

 

[backontrack]

Shrewsbury also has a large public school.

There is a statue of Percy Thrower in Shrewsbury. He was born in Little Horwood.

 

[DerekC]

Hunsdon (Herts) also accommodated a WWII RAF station

 

[backontrack]

Nuthampstead was also one of the Hundred Parishes.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1968–71 the Commission on the Third London Airport (the "Roskill Commission") considered Nuthampstead as one of its four short-listed sites, along with Cublington, Foulness (later known as Maplin Sands) and Thurleigh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sevenoaks also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[DerekC]

The poet Edward Thomas lived at Sevenoaks. He wrote the famous (in this forum, anyway) poem Adlestrop.