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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scalloway in Shetland also has a marina.

 

[John Griffiths]

James Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime Minister of the UK, was born in Lossiemouth; his wife, Margaret Gladstone, was born in Kensington, London.

 

[DerekC]

Scalloway is home to the North Atlantic Fisheries College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Another part is West Highland College at Fort William.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fort William FC play in the Highland Football League and have been playing at that level since joining the league in 1985. However, it's fair to say that the club is struggling somewhat lately, having not won a League match for 882 days until playing Clachnacuddin FC from Inverness on 11th September 2019, when they won 1–0 at home.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corpach also lies on the line of the Caledonian Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

During the Second World War, Corpach was the engineering base for HMS St Christopher, which was a training base for the Royal Navy Coastal Forces. HMS Newt was also a shore establishment of the Royal Navy during the Second World War II, and was based at Newhaven, East Sussex.

 

[DerekC]

Newhaven was once the terminal of a train ferry to France. Langstone (near Havant) was for a few years the terminal of a train ferry to the Isle of Wight.

 

[johnnychips]

Poole also has an extensive harbour area bordering the Channel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kinsley in West Yorkshire also has a greyhound racing stadium.

 

[DerekC]

Pontefract, like Kinsley, is on the Stagecoach Yorkshire No 28 bus route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh also has a racecourse.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Musselburgh Athletic FC are the town's football team, competing in the East of Scotland League at their Olivebank Park ground in the west of the town. Another club in the League is Blackburn United FC, who play in the town of Blackburn, West Lothian (as opposed to Lancashire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catrine in East Ayrshire was another noted Scottish centre of cotton manufacture in past times.

 

[DerekC]

The mill wheels at Catrine, 50 feet in diameter and built in 1828, were for a while the largest in the world. However in 1854 the 74 foot diameter Laxey wheel on the Isle of Man was built and took over the title!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jurby also lies on the line of the Raad ny Foillan long distance footpath.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sunderland also has an aviation museum.

 

[DerekC]

Jurby is home to a small transport museum mostly focused on buses. A larger one with a similar theme can be found at Wythall in Worcestershire.

 

[John Griffiths]

I think yours is the more accurate, Derek, so I shall strike out mine.

 

[DerekC]

Sunderland also has an aviation museum.

The Manx Aviation museum is at Castletown - I think the museum at Jurby is about land transport (mostly buses but something on trains also).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballasalla also lies on the line of the Millenium Way long distance footpath.

 

[johnnychips]

Broomhill in Sheffield also has a St Mark’s church.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Haverhill also has ‘hill’ at the end

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wixoe in Essex also lies on the line of the Stour Brook.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Leonard is the Patron Saint of prisoners, and the Aldrington area of the City of Brighton and Hove also has an Anglican Church named after him.

 

[DerekC]

Nether Stowey in Somerset, like Aldrington, has a pub called the Ancient Mariner.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Coleridge Way is a 51-mile footpath in Somerset and Devon. It was opened in April 2005, and the route links several sites associated with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, starting from Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey. The footpath originally finished at Porlock but was extended to Lynmouth, Devon in May 2014.

 

[John Griffiths]

Artist Thomas Gainsborough, who honeymooned in Lynmouth, was born in Sudbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wokingham in Berkshire also has medieval links to the silk trade.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a "King George V Playing Field" behind St. Crispin's in memory of King George V; there is also one at Sonning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aborfield was also once administered by the Hundred of Sonning.