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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Wear.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Percival Crozier (1879–1944) who was the Editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1932 to 1944 was born at Stanhope. From 1919 to 1940, Sir Neville Cardus CBE (1888 – 1975) was the paper's cricket correspondent; he was born in Rusholme, Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gorton also lies on the line of the Gore Brook.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gorton has a notable, though disused, Franciscan church; there is a active Franciscan religious community in Canning Town, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheathampstead also lies on the line of the River Lea.

 

[DerekC]

John Cunningham, WWII night fighter ace and peacetime test pilot for de Havilland, crashed a prototype DH Moth Minor at Wheathampstead in 1939. Coming through the war unscathed and with twenty victories to his credit, bird strike caused him to crash a DH125 at Dunsfold in 1976, an accident in which unfortunately six people in a car hit by the aircraft were killed.

 

[John Griffiths]

John King, Lord King of Wartnaby, chairman of British Airways 1981-93, was born in Brentford but lived most of his youth in Dunsfold; his bother in law, the architect and businessman John Poluson, was born and spent most of his life in Pontefract.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thirsk also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Thirsk is reckoned to be the real-life version of James Herriot's "Darrowby". "Elmbury", in John Moore's in my opinion delightful novels of the south-west Midlands most of a century ago: is for certain, his home town of Tewkesbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockton-on-Tees also holds an annual mop fair.

 

[Calthrop]

Perhaps getting dangerously close to "rail-related" territory -- hoping to be still "on the right side of the line": the actor Will Hay was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He is probably best-known for his role in the film Oh, Mr. Porter; which was largely shot at Cliddesden in Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Padiham in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

[Calthrop]

Padiham's Memorial Park is the holder of a Green Flag Award for a well-managed green space, from "Keep Britain Tidy". Boscombe Chine Gardens (Dorset) are similarly honoured.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horsham in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an area of Horsham called Holbrook, named after a feeder stream of the river Arun. There's another Holbrook in Suffolk, just south of Ipswich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cavendish in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[John Griffiths]

Leonard Cheshire VC is buried in Cavendish. He was born in Hoole, Chester.

 

[Calthrop]

So Cheshire was appropriately born in Cheshire?

A bit feebly -- there's a similarly-named settlement not very far away, in Lancashire: Much Hoole, between Preston and Southport.

 

[John Griffiths]

Before running the 'Rose and Crown' pub in Much Hoole, executioner Albert Pierrepoint had been landlord of the 'Help the Poor Struggler' pub in Hollinwood, Oldham

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hollinwood (St Margaret of Antioch) and Limeside (St Chad's) are part of the Church of England parish of Hollinwood and Limeside in the Diocese of Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Youghal in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Family.

 

[Calthrop]

Youghal is, as I understand, pronounced "Yawl". In Norfolk -- home par excellence, of mangled place-name pronunciations -- Wymondham similarly gets, pronunciation-wise, a syllable trimmed off it: the inhabitants say "Windum".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carleton Forehoe also lies on the line of the River Tiffley.

 

[Calthrop]

Carleton Forehoe also lies on the line of the River Tiffley.

You're making this stuff up -- no, it's fully true: Carleton Forehoe is now in the parish of nearby Kimberley. There is another Kimberley in Nottinghamshire. (Kimberley, South Africa, of diamond fame; is named after the Earl Kimberley -- from the Norfolk venue of that name.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Kimberley Brewery, also known as Hardy & Hanson's Brewery or Hardys & Hansons, began brewing in 1832. In 2006, The Hardys & Hansons Kimberley Brewery and all of its public houses were sold to Greene King; the surviving brands are now brewed in Bury St Edmunds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cupar in Fife also has connections to the processing of sugar beet.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cupar is a former county town of Fife. Another former Scottish county town is Greenlaw, for a while county town of Berwickshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earlston in Berwickshire also lies on the route of the A6105 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bedford also has a Twin Town in the Veneto region of Italy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Smethwick in the West Midlands also has a large Sikh Gurdwara.