Xenophon PCDGS
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Lower Copthurst also lies on the line of the River Lostock.
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EbbwJunction1
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I'm afraid that I can't find any references to Lower Copthurst - or Upper Copthurst, either. There's a Lower Copthurst Lane which runs to the River Lostock, but according to Google Maps, it's in Wheelton. Over to you, I think?
I find Lower Copthurst mentioned by the British Placenames Website, as a hamlet a little way north-east of Chorley. I was in the process of making an -- admittedly a bit desperately far-fetched -- follow-on post from Lower Copthurst...
EbbwJunction1
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Ah, okay, it was Mr W Pedia that couldn't help me, so if you have traced it, I'm willing to yield to you. Thanks.
Here goes, then -- as said, maybe a little "naughty"; however --
Near Lower Copthurst, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, there is a pub called the Top Lock. At Foxton, Leicestershire, there is a pub called "Bridge 61", which advertises itself as "located at the bottom of the locks": i.e. the Foxton flight thereof, on the Leicester arm of the Grand Union Canal.
Near Lower Copthurst, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, there is a pub called the Top Lock. At Foxton, Leicestershire, there is a pub called "Bridge 61", which advertises itself as "located at the bottom of the locks": i.e. the Foxton flight thereof, on the Leicester arm of the Grand Union Canal.
EbbwJunction1
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Trench's name is thought to originate from the village's having been founded on a cleared part of the surrounding woodland. England's many settlements with names ending in "-ley" or "leigh", usually derive that similar meaning, from the Saxon leah = woodland clearing. An example is Botley, Hampshire: thought to indicate, the woodland clearing occupied by a man named Botta.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bursledon also lies on the line of the River Hamble.
johnnychips
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Cawood also has a Jolly Sailor inn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blacktoft also lies on the line of the River Ouse.
Springs Branch
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Forsinard in Sutherland is also the location of a RSPB wildlife reserve.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Achimore also lies on the route of the A897 road.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newton Stewart also hosts an annual music festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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New Lanark is another of the settlements in Scotland where cotton mills were established.
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire: is another settlement created a couple of hundred years ago, under industrialist / philanthropist auspices, to provide planned and wholesome accommodation for the workers of a particular industrial complex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gargrave also lies on the line of the River Aire.
EbbwJunction1
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Robert Story (1795–1860), known as "the Craven Poet", lived in Gargrave; he was, however, born at Wark on Tweed (also known as Wark) in Northumberland.
Wark on Tweed long had a tradition of an annual game of medieval minimum-rules football (against the men of Coldstream on the Scottish side of the river -- concerning a patch of land technically on the Wark side, whose ownership was in dispute) -- this game is no longer played there. Atherstone, Warwickshire, still enacts a tradition of a similar annual game.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wroxeter also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Selsey in West Sussex is also an area that was settled by the Belgic Iron Age tribe known as the Atrebates.
Memory comes up with the book of odd "funnies" which we had long ago, which I've drawn on before in this game; including a bunch of rather bonkers clerihews about British settlements / communities. One such ran:
Selsey
Makes a change from Chelsea;
But does Polperro?
No.
Which I take to mean that even around the 1940s -- the time of publication of this book of stuff -- Cornwall was perceived by many, as being infested with annoying and pretentious trendy "incomers" from the big cities...
Selsey
Makes a change from Chelsea;
But does Polperro?
No.
Which I take to mean that even around the 1940s -- the time of publication of this book of stuff -- Cornwall was perceived by many, as being infested with annoying and pretentious trendy "incomers" from the big cities...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Crumplehorn also lies on the line of the River Pol.
John Griffiths
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Carsethorn, Dumfries & Galloway, also has a place name ending in 'horn', though in neither case involving the musical instrument.
EbbwJunction1
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Skegness Town AFC play at the Vertigo Stadium, Wainfleet Road and are known as The Lilywhites. The club was founded in 1947 and has been in the Northern Counties East Football League Division One since 2018. Another club in the same division are Glasshoughton Welfare AFC who, although they use the name Glasshoughton, play at Leeds Road, Castleford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Utley also lies on the line of the River Aire.