About six miles south-west of Llangammarch Wells is the village of Tirabad: administratively part of the same parish / community; and bearing -- coincidentally, I understand -- the same name as a city in Iran. Edinburgh also has a Middle-Eastern-namesake suburb / "satellite", this name reckoned deliberately given: Joppa -- after Yafo / Jaffa, now in Israel.
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Edinburgh's Old and New Towns are listed amongst UNESCO's World Heritage sites.
Another UNESCO World Heritage site in the UK is the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.
Another UNESCO World Heritage site in the UK is the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.
EbbwJunction1
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The botanic gardens at Wakehurst, which is near Ardingley, West Sussex, are also managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thrapston also lies on the line of the River Nene.
EbbwJunction1
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Thrapston is at the junction of the A14 and the A45. The A14 Trunk Road runs between the Port of Felixtowe, Suffolk to its western end at the Catthorpe Interchange, which is a major intersection at the southern end of the M6 and the M1 in Leicestershire. Before getting to Thrapston, the road bypasses Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
EbbwJunction1
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Part of the former Rugby to Leamington Spa railway line runs to the west of Draycote; between Draycote and Birdingbury it has recently been converted into a cycleway as part of the National Cycleway Route 41.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Middleton in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.
In Middleton's mentioned St. Leonard's Church is -- to quote Wikipedia -- "the Flodden Window in the church's sanctuary... thought to be the oldest war memorial in the UK, commemorating the archers of Middleton who fought at the Battle of Flodden in 1513". At Branxton, Northumberland -- very near the site of said battle -- there is a memorial dedicated to all the dead thereof, English and Scottish.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ludgvan in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.
EbbwJunction1
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William Oliver (1695 – 1764) was a British physician and philanthropist, and the inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit. He was born at Ludgvan and died in Bath; he is buried in All Saint's Church in the Bath suburb of Weston.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Monkton Combe (famed for its part in "The Titfield Thunderbolt") was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bath Forum.
EbbwJunction1
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The churchyard of the Parish Church of St Michael is the last resting place of Henry John (Harry) Patch (17th June 1898 – 25th July 2009), who was dubbed in his later years "The Last Fighting Tommy". He was born in Combe Down and died in Wells, aged 111 years, 38 days.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Holywell also has a well with saintly connections.
I see nothing for it but that rhyme about the Seven Wonders of Wales; which features among other things, the above-bolded settlement's well; and also the twenty-one ancient yew trees in the churchyard of Overton-on-Dee (in the County Borough of Wrexham; and only just within Wales at all).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandrillo also lies on the line of the River Dee.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Preshome in Banffshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.
EbbwJunction1
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The design of St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church has been credited to Father John Reid, with later additions by Peter Paul Pugin. In 1887, the latter was also responsible for the design of St Anthony of Padua RC Church, Forest Gate, West Ham, London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Water Eaton also has a church that is dedicated to St Frideswide.
EbbwJunction1
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Water Eaton manor house was built for Sir Edward Frere in 1586 but reduced in size at a later date. The Gothic Revival architect George Frederick Bodley restored the house in 1890 and made it his home; it is now a Grade II* Listed Building. G F Bodley worked between 1854 and 1907; between 1865 and 1871, he worked on St Simon's Church, St Helier, Jersey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Buxton also has an Opera House.
John Griffiths
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Eastbourne is also a town which underwent major development and expansion (for purposes of health and leisure) at the behest of the Dukes of Devonshire.
Lawrence Oates, who perished heroically on Scott's South Pole expedition (the chap who went outside, warning that he might be some time), was in Eastbourne for a brief period of his education. He was born, and spent much of his childhood, in Putney (London Borough of Wandsworth).
John Griffiths
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The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, who died at Putney in 1909 (having lived there for thirty years with his friend Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was trying to keep the poet safe from the temptations of booze and drugs), was born in London in 1837, and spent holidays in his youth at the Home of his grandfather, Capheaton Hall in the Northumbrian village of Capheaton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mildenhall in Suffolk is another settlement when Romano-British treasure was discovered.
EbbwJunction1
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There are two large Royal Air Force stations near to the town of Mildenhall. One bears the name of the town, and the other bears the name of the nearby village of Lakenheath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Disley in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.