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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Formby is another area where red squirrels still thrive.

 

[Calthrop]

There's

Formby is another area where red squirrels still thrive.

Likewise Sandown, Isle of Wight -- and throughout the Island (no grey ones thereon); but there's a particularly good squirrel location near Sandown.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sandown Pier was opened in 1878; the same year, the pier at Aldeburgh, Suffolk was completed (since demolished).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keswick in Cumbria also has a Moot Hall.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Kentigern (518-614), known also as St Mungo, is thought to have been active in and around Keswick in the course of his long and peripatetic evangelical life ; he is said to have founded the church at Crossthwaite which was long Keswick's parish church. He went on to establish the see and cathedral at Glasgow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Andrews also has a university that was opened in the 15th century.

 

[Calthrop]

The opening scene of the film Chariots of Fire is set, per the film's narrative, on the beach at Broadstairs, Kent; but was actually filmed on West Sands Beach, St. Andrews.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mumbles also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea.

 

[John Griffiths]

The name Mumbles may come from the Latin/Roman Mamucium, referring to a breast-shaped hill, the same etymology as Mancunium, also Mamucium, today's Manchester.

 

[Calthrop]

One understands that there is an apocryphal saying concerning capital-of-England status: "Winchester was, London is, and Manchester shall be".

 

[DerekC]

Friedrich Engels. one of the key figures in the development of Marxism, lived in and around Manchester for much of his life, but later moved to Primrose Hill, a district of Camden, where he died in 1895.

The statue of King Alfred in Winchester is very well known, but there is a less well known statue of the same king at Wantage in Berkshire

 

[Calthrop]

Wantage had a prestigious school for young ladies until 2007, when it ceased to function in that location. Benenden, Kent, still has one such.

 

[DerekC]

James Collingwood Tinling is buried in Benenden churchyard. He was a founder member of Power Jets Ltd, the company which developed the first British jet aircraft. The Gloster E28/39 first flew on 15th May 1941 from RAF Cranwell.

 

[Calthrop]

In the centre of Cranwell village, are the remains of a buttercross; which I learn is/was a settlement-centre structure with steps on which to lay out market produce. Barnard Castle, County Durham, has a basically still-complete buttercross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cotherstone also lies on the line of the River Tees.

 

[John Griffiths]

The modernist architect Maxwell Fry (1899-1987), who worked on the plan for Chandigarh in the Punjab with le Corbusier and Jane Drew (Fry 's wife), died in Cotherstone. He was born on the Wirral, in Liscard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ness was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, also has a botanic garden in a rural setting. (Our family had relatives who for many years, farmed near Ness -- many visits made there by us.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire, also has a botanic garden in a rural setting. (Our family had relatives who for many years, farmed near Ness -- many visits made there by us.)

Is that the same settlement of Llanarthney but with a different spelling?

 

[Calthrop]

Is that the same settlement of Llanarthney but with a different spelling?

Yes, same place: I'd always thought of it as Llanarthney with a y -- its Halt on the Llandeilo -- Carmarthen line had the "y" spelling; but I found just now, that the material on the Net about the mentioned National Botanic Garden of Wales; and both my road atlases -- AA, and Michelin -- use the "Llanarthne" spelling.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandybie was also once administered by the Hundred of Iscennen.

 

[Calthrop]

Llandybie hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1944. The same office was performed in the following year by Rhosllanerchrugog (now in Clwyd).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llannerch-y-Medd in Anglesey was another of the main meeting places that celebrated the Welsh Religious Revival of 1904-1905.

 

[DerekC]

West Tanfield in North Yorkshire also has a "Bull Inn"

 

[John Griffiths]

Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, also has a parish church dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boroughbridge also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[Springs Branch]

Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, also has a parish church dedicated to St Nicholas.

Soapy multinational corporation Procter and Gamble has had a long-standing presence in north-eastern England. This has included a HQ in Gosforth, and an Old Spice aftershave factory (now used to manufacture Clairol and other hair products), located in Seaton Delaval.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergavenny also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ludlow is also considered by many to be a 'foodie destination'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beguildy in Powys also lies on the line of the River Teme.