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EbbwJunction1
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St Andrews's Parish Church, Harlestone, has five light stained glass panels in the East window installed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. This was made by Burlison and Grylls of London. Another example of their work is in St Mary Magdalene's Church in the village of Bolney in Mid Sussex.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Sharrington in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashwicken in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Freebridge Lynn Poor Law Union.
johnnychips
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Totley, near Sheffield, also has an All Saints church.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Barlborough was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Scarsdale.
Springs Branch
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One of Amazon UK's "Fulfillment Centres" (i.e. warehouses - nothing to do with the fulfilling employment opportunities to be had there) is located just off the M1 in Barlborough.
Another is located in Staffordshire at Rugeley.
Another is located in Staffordshire at Rugeley.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brewood in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Cuttlestone.
Springs Branch
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Market Drayton is also on the route of the Shropshire Union canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Salford also has a Greek Orthodox church.
EbbwJunction1
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The British composer, conductor and between 2004 and 2016, the Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE was born on 8th September 1934 in Salford. He died on Sanday, Orkney on 14th March 2016.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stenness is another Orkney settlement with a chambered cairn in its environs.
EbbwJunction1
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Stenness parish adjoins the southern extremity of the Loch of Stenness; it has been politically merged with the civil parish of Firth, where the main village is Finstown.
Mention was made of the homes in the above-bolded settlement, being tidy and well-cared-for: in the work of the author and poet Eric Linklater (1899 -- 1974); who loved, and spent much time in, the Orkney Islands; but was born -- albeit of an Orcadian father -- in Penarth, Glamorgan.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Porthkerry in the Vale of Glamorgan was also once administered by the Hundred of Dinas Powys.
EbbwJunction1
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One of the oldest settlements in PorthKerry is the Iron Age Fort known as The Bulwarks. A little to the north of the site of the fort is a Church dedicated to Saint Curig, who was a Celtic Roman Catholic Bishop and Saint of Wales during post Roman times. He is also remembered in the church of St Curig in Llangurig, Montgomeryshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rocester in Staffordshire is another settlement that was used as a site for a Roman fort.
Springs Branch
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Rugeley is another Staffordshire settlement listed in the Domesday Book.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Darlington also has a church that is dedicate to St Augustine.
EbbwJunction1
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Frederick Dickens (1820 – 1868), Charles Dickens' beloved scapegrace brother, died in Darlington and is buried in the West Cemetery. In 1824, he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, Southwark for debt under the Insolvent Debtor's Act of 1813, because he owed a baker, James Kerr, £40 and 10 shillings.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liverpool also has both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.
EbbwJunction1
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RMS Olympic (the sister ship of RMS Titanic) was built in Belfast, registered in Liverpool and finally broken up at Thos. W Ward's yard at Inverkeithing, Fife in 1937.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cellardyke also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Fife Coastal Path.
EbbwJunction1
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Cellardyke and Kilrenny were together a royal burgh from 1592, having been a burgh of regality since 1578.
It is suggested that Kilrenny's name is derived from cil = church (Scottish Gaelic): plus -- the "renny" part -- a worn-down form of the name Eltharnan or Itharnan; an early churchman who is recorded as having "died among the Picts" in 669. Another Christian luminary from the Celtic world, said to have "died untimely" around that time, was Saint Kilian: born near Mullagh (Co. Cavan), and murdered in what is now Germany -- which was his mission-field.
EbbwJunction1
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Great Yarmouth also has a St Mary's Roman Catholic Church.