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[cjp]

Blackpool rock = Edinburgh Rock

 

[A Challenge]

I also stayed in Arrochar on my holiday going around Scotland.

 

[DerekC]

Torpedoes made in Woolwich used to be tested in Arrochar

 

[High Dyke]

Blackpool rock = Edinburgh Rock

I think Blackpool rock would be easier to eat...

Torpedoes made in Woolwich used to be tested in Arrochar

Stanwick St John also has remains of a Celtic Oppidum.

 

[cjp]

Barford St John

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Barford St John is one part of the civil parish of Barford St. John and St. Michael, with the other part (which stands on the other side of the River Swere) being Barford St Michael.

 

[DerekC]

Fordingbridge also has an annual duck race

 

[High Dyke]

Fordingbridge also has an annual duck race

A bronze statue of the painter Augustus John stands on the banks of the Avon near the Great Bridge. Augustus John was born at Tenby.

 

[cjp]

Denby rhymes with Tenby

 

[High Dyke]

Denby rhymes with Tenby

The village is commemorated in the hymn tune Denby, composed in 1904 by Charles J. Dale who was born in Longton.

 

[DerekC]

Hanley is another of the six towns which make up the city of Stoke on Trent

 

[johnnychips]

The Titanic called at Southampton on its voyage, and Captain Smith was born in Hanley.

 

[cjp]

from where a ferry runs to Cowes

 

[High Dyke]

Warton also has a BAE Systems facility.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The nearest town to Warton is Carnforth, which was originally part of Warton parish.

 

[cjp]

Bicester also has an Aldi store

 

[High Dyke]

The nearest town to Warton is Carnforth, which was originally part of Warton parish.

It was the Warton near Blackpool I meant. However it does get confusing to have a couple of places in the same county with that name...

Bicester also has an Aldi store

The parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Culworth, Northants has a church bell cast by Edward Hemins at his bell-foundry in Bicester.

 

[cjp]

The church at Norwood Green also has a tower and is named after St Mary

 

[DerekC]

Berkhamsted is also on the Grand Union Canal

 

[cjp]

One arm of the canal joins the Thames at Brentford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton was also the scene of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish Vikings.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (19th June 1861 – 29th January 1928) was created a Freeman of the City of Wolverhampton on 16th October 1919. He is buried at Dryburgh Abbey, Dryburgh in the Scottish Borders.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stirling also erected an edifice to commemorate William Wallace.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lancaster has also given it's name to a World War II bomber.

 

[High Dyke]

Lincoln also holds its Crown Court in a castle.

 

[A Challenge]

York is also a County Town for a Traditional County

 

[cjp]

Some of the Viking items discovered in York may be seen in Inverness museum

 

[A Challenge]

Oban is also the County Town of a county partly in the Highlands.

 

[High Dyke]

Westgate-on-Sea was also base for seaplanes.

 

[DerekC]

Sir John Betjeman also wrote a poem about Slough