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[johnnychips]

Belfast also has a museum that was once a gaol.

 

[DerekC]

Belfast is well known as the home of Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders. Less well known is that Harland & Wolff also owned a shipyard in Bootle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford also had numerous docks where cargo was unloaded.

 

[John Griffiths]

Derby also received a City Charter in the twentieth century.

 

[DerekC]

We can't visit Derby, home of Derby County, without mentioning next Monday's Championship playoff against Aston Villa (of course based in Aston)

 

[John Griffiths]

Falmouth also has a university bearing its name.

 

[DerekC]

Kenneth Grahame started to write Wind in the Willows while staying in Falmouth. There is a section dedicated to the book at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley on Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitby also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[johnnychips]

Ravenglass is also on the estuary of a River Esk.

 

[DerekC]

Crowborough is another town with a name apparently associated with a corvid.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orton in Cumbria also holds a regular farmer's market.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wetherby is also in a civil parish that contains a motorway service area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Abbot also has a racecourse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Swindon also had Great Western Railway works.

 

[DerekC]

The River Lemon flows through Newton Abbot, joining the Teign just below the town. It rises on Haytor and runs through Bickington .

Swindon is probably derived from Old English words meaning "pigs' hill" . Toller Porcorum seems also to have pig associations.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke Abbott was also once administered by the Hundred of Beaminster Forum and Redhone.

 

[DerekC]

Swanmore, like Stoke Abbott, has a pub called the New Inn. Both have my personal recommendation!

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Swanmore, Hayes in west London was once a centre of the brickmaking industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brenzett in Kent also has a Grade II* listed parish church.

 

[John Griffiths]

Colindale also has a aeronautical museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hendon also lies on the line of the waterway known as The Silk Stream.

 

[John Griffiths]

Barnes also became a municipal borough in 1932.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lechlade also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lechlade is claimed to be the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable for reasonably large boats.
On another of England's most significant rivers, the Severn, the highest navigable point is Stourport.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brentford was also a port situated where a canal met a major river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[DerekC]

Wolverhampton used to be a centre for bicycle manufacture, but not any longer. However Pashley Cycles is still going, based in Stratford on Avon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Street in Somerset also has a place of worship known as the Church of the Holy Trinity.

 

[Springs Branch]

Northampton also has a shoe museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkcaldy also has a Gilbert and Sullivan society.