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Xenophon PCDGS
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Ellesborough in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Aylesbury.
Ellesborough is overlooked by Beacon Hill, which includes Cymbeline's Mount: the name being an "Englishing" of the ancient British king Cunobelinus, one of whose actions against the invading Romans is said to have taken place here. A contemporary personage with similar status and deeds was Cara(c)tacus, commemorated similarly in the name of the hill of Caer Caradoc (in his area of operations); which despite its Celtic-sounding name, is well within Shropshire and thus England -- nearest settlement, All Stretton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Caerwys in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.
John Griffiths
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A somewhat dodgy claim in Wikipedia is that the plan of Philadelphia is based on the street pattern of Caerwys. It is a more solid belief that Central Park in New York City was strongly influenced by the municipal park in Birkenhead.
EbbwJunction1
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Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine, a participant in the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, was born in Birkenhead in 1902. He was accompanied on an attempt at the summit on 8th June 1924 by George Herbert Leigh Mallory, who was born in Mobberley, Cheshire on 18th June 1886.
johnnychips
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Dave Dee, of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch fame lived in Mobberley in later life. He was born in Salisbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edinburgh also hosts an annual iterary festival.
johnnychips
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An infamous Rugby song was called ‘The Ball of Kirriemuir’. I seem to remember that some visitors came from Inverness.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shannon also has an aviation museum.
DerekC
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The Religious Sisters of Mercy have a community in Shannon. They also run St Winefride's School in Shrewsbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire is another settlement that has site remains of Bronze Age barrows within its environs.
Springs Branch
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Castle Combe is another village in Wiltshire with a Grade I listed church, also coincidentally dedicated to St Andrew.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Luckington in Wiltshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Chippenham.
EbbwJunction1
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Actor John Thaw (1942–2002) and his second wife, actress Sheila Hancock Hancock, bought the 17th Century Brook House in Church Road in 1990. He was born in Gorton, Manchester in 1942 and died in Luckington in 2002.
An unusual inhabitant of Gorton in the early-ish 20th century, was a gentleman who first came to Britain with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, as the Sioux chief Charging Thunder; he elected to stay in Britain, married an English girl, changed his name to George Edward Williams, and ultimately settled in Gorton. Another and more famous Native American "transplant" to Britain, was Pocahontas; who with her husband John Rolfe, lived briefly in England until her sadly early death in 1617: during this spell the couple resided in various places, including the Rolfe family home at Heacham, Norfolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bircham Tofts in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Docking Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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'Toft' is a place name element meaning a piece of land for the private use of a peasant or towndweller - that is, not part of the common fields. It is seen also in the Leeds district of Burmantofts.
EbbwJunction1
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The only historic building in the Burmantofts area is St Agnes' United Church, the Church of England Parish Church on Stoney Rock Lane. It is a Gothic Revival building, designed by the Leeds architects John Kelly and Edward Birchall and built between 1887 and 1889. The church of St Mary of Bethany in the New Wortley area of Leeds was one of Kelly & Birchall's earlier projects, built in 1885 at a cost of £5,600; it was demolished in 1975.
John Griffiths
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New Wortley recreation ground was one of the locations used for the 1988 TV series 'The Beiderbecke Connection', as also was Foxwood School in Seacroft.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ferry Fryston in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Barwick Gilbert Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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Ferry Fryston is near to the River Aire, which also passes near to Brotherton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Conwy also has a noted "smallest house".
Conwy is reputed to be the place where golf was first played in Wales. Its English counterpart for that distinction is reckoned to be Blackheath, south-east London; where the then Prince of Wales (later Charles I) and his courtiers, played the game early in the 17th century.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mottingham was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackheath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Willington in County Durham also has the line of the River Wear within its environs.