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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a castle that was used as a prison.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wellington in Somerset also shares a name with a Second World War bomber built by the A V Roe Company (although it's apparently named after the Duke of Wellington and not the town).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tiverton was also served by the Grand Western Canal

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mark Labbett aka "The Beast", was born in Tiverton on 15 August 1965. He married his wife, Katie, who is his second cousin and 27 years his junior, in October 2014 at Arundel Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pulborough also has the River Arun flowing through its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Pulborough has a Duck Race .... so has Worcester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maidstone was also the scene of a battle of the English Civil War.

 

[High Dyke]

Arlington in Devon also has a carriage museum.

 

[johnnychips]

Weybridge also has a St James's church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eashing also lies on the line of the River Wey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Eashing was formerly a far more important place than many of its now larger neighbours like Elstead and Shackleford, which is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peper Harow was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Godalming

 

[High Dyke]

Garthorpe (Leics) also hosts Point-to-point racing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fockerby is also situated in the land area known as the Isle of Axholme

 

[High Dyke]

Fockerby is also situated in the land area known as the Isle of Axholme

Paul. You've got the wrong Garthorpe as your reference point. However I note that Wikipedia does make an incorrect reference.

Garthorpe is a village and civil parish (called Garthorpe and Fockerby) in Leicestershire.

I will leave it up to you if you wish to make an amendment to your posting.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Paul. You've got the wrong Garthorpe as your reference point. However I note that Wikipedia does make an incorrect reference. I will leave it up to you if you wish to make an amendment to your posting.

I have struck-through my posting and will leave the next posting to be made to another contestant.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church, Garthorpe, is a redundant Grade I listed Church of England parish church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Also in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust is The Church of St Michael in Clapton in Gordano, Somerset. This dates from the 13th century and also a designated Grade I listed building.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Compton in Dorset is another area when a find of Roman coins was made.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British test pilot and aviation author Harald Penrose (1904-1996) lived in Nether Compton for more than 50 years in a house of his own design. He died on 31st August 1996, aged 92 at Hardington Mandeville, Yeovil.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chilton Cantelo is another settlement that once was administered by the Hundred of Houndsborough

 

[High Dyke]

Higher Chilton Farm, Chilton Cantelo is linked to the story of a screaming skull. A screaming skull is a paranormal object, a human skull which per legend speaks, screams, or otherwise haunts its environs. Other locations connected with a screaming skull include Tunstead Farm, Tunstead Milton, Derbyshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tunstead Milton should not be confused with Tunstead, which is roughly five miles to the southeast, near the village and civil parish of Wormhill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tissington also holds an annual well dressing ceremony.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The novelist Richard Graves (1715 – 1804) was born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire; whilst staying in Tissington, he wrote some of his novel The Spiritual Quixote.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drayton Bassett also lies on the line of the long distance trail known as the Heart of England Way.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Robert Peel (1788 – 1850), Prime Minister and creator of the Metropolitan Police Force for London, lived in Drayton Manor (now demolished and replaced by Drayton Manor Theme Park) and is buried in the vault of the parish church, St Peter. He was born in Bury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Affetside also lies on the line of the Roman military road that connected its forts in Ribchester and Manchester

 

[DerekC]

Halesworth also has a "Millenium Green".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Laxfield also lies on the line of the upper reaches of the River Blyth.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Dowsing (1596–1668) was an English iconoclast who operated at the time of the English Civil War. Dowsing was a puritan soldier who was born in Laxfield, Suffolk. In 1643 he was appointed by the Earl of Manchester as "Commissioner for the destruction of monuments of idolatry and superstition". There is a portrait of him in the Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich.