Settlement Association

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Forgue in Aberdeenshire is also in the AB54 postal code area.

 

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The above-bolded settlement is the location of a whisky distillery (Glendronach). The same is true of Tain (Highland), where the Glenmorangie distillery is situated.

 

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Tain Golf Club offers a Championship length links golf course overlooking the Dornoch Firth. The course was first designed by Old Tom Morris in 1890; Thomas Mitchell Morris (1821 – 1908) was born and died in St Andrews, Fife.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Freckleton in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

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There is also a Coach and Horses Inn at Melton, Suffolk.

 

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Dallinghoo was also once administered by the Hundred of Wilford.

 

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The graveyard of St Mary's Church, Dallinghoo contains a number of interesting stones, including one from the late 17th Century depicting a shovel, hour glass and pick; it is thought to be the work of the same mason who created a similar one a few miles off at St Botolph's Church, Burgh.

 

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Broomfield in Essex also has a round-tower church.

 

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The village of Broomfield was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23rd November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. The first tornado of the outbreak touched down in Rhosgoch, Anglesey and moved north-eastwards towards Amlwch.

 

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Rhoscolyn in Anglesey also has a Site of Special Scientific Interest within its environs.

 

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Sir Edward Abbott Parry, judge and author: visited Rhoscolyn in a summer-holiday context in the 1890s, and wrote an affectionate account of the area and his sojourn there; including a tribute to the then rector, the Rev. John Hopkins, with whom he became firm friends. Sir Edward died in Sevenoaks (Kent) in 1943, at the age of eighty.

 

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The Welsh tramp-poet W H Davies lived in Sevenoaks between 1907 and 1914; he also lived at times at 14 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London.

 

[John Griffiths]

Much of Bloomsbury was developed by the Dukes of Bedford, whose main seat is Woburn Abbey in the Bedfordshire village of Woburn.

 

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Towcester (Northamptonshire) was also an important staging-point for stage-coach services, during the era when those flourished.

 

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The former England cricketer Graeme Swann was born in Northampton on 24th March 1979; he attended Sponne School in Towcester.

 

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Street in Somerset also has a shoe museum.

 

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Just as Millfield School is located at Street, Christ College is located (and includes the name of) at Brecon.

 

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In Shakespeare's Richard III, the Duke of Buckingham -- suspected of being a supporter of Richard's rival the Welsh Henry Tudor, and thus in fear for his life; soliloquises to the effect that he had better immediately push off to more friendly territory: specifically Brecon, which he refers to by its slightly archaic alternative name of Brecknock.

 

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Buckingham was the county town of Buckinghamshire from the 10th century, when it was made the capital of the newly formed shire of Buckingham, until Aylesbury took over this role early in the 18th century.

 

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Hawridge in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesbury Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fulwell in Sunderland also has a tower windmill.

 

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Bowdon in Trafford is also a much sought-after housing area of "rather nice sizeable residences" in comparison to other parts of the borough

 

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The pulpit of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowden was made by the architect Temple Moore in around 1910. In 1908, he made the organ case, choir stalls, reredos and communion rail for St Michael and All Angels Church, which is a Grade I Listed Church on the estate of the Duke of Beaufort in the village of Great Badminton, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tortworth was also once administered by the Hundred of Grumbalds-Ash.

 

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Near Tortworth is H.M.Prison Ley Hill; which in 1985 won the annual Windlesham Trophy award for the best-kept prison gardens. Last year, this trophy was won by H.M. Prison Wymott, near Leyland (Lancashire).

 

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Widnes also has a church that is dedicated to St Ambrose.

 

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Melanie Chisholm, also known professionally as Melanie C or Mel C or Sporty Spice was born on 12th January 1974 in Whiston, Lancashire; she later moved to Widnes when young and went to school there.

 

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Honiley in Warwickshire is another settlement where a Neolithic Age polished stone hand axe was discovered.

 

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Woolfardisworthy (Devon) also has its name pronounced in a non-obvious way: respectively "Hun-lee" (re the above); and "Woolsery".

 

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Kirkburton in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Hallows.