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[Calthrop]

Prodding the sensibilities of Mrs Grundy again......

I find -- while consulting the Wiki entry re the Lincolnshire town -- that "This form of censorship over-reach is known in the computing world as the Scunthorpe problem."

Corby also overlies deposits of iron ore.

This Corby became a significant industrial town, only relatively recently in history; before which it was a small sleepy village. In those days, it was locally often callled "Corby-God-Bless-You" -- an unofficial way of distinguishing it from the other Corby, not all that far away: on the River Glen, south of Grantham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Redditch in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

 

[Calthrop]

For a long time, Redditch was a supreme centre for the manufacture of hand sewing needles: 100+ years ago, it was reckoned to be producing 90% of the world's requirements of same. This trade is / has been shared to a certain extent, by neighbouring Studley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Condicote in Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Ryknild Street.

 

[Calthrop]

I think I've read somewhere, that small spectral pigs are said to run across Condicote's village street every New Year's Eve. There are also reputed annual (various dates) ghostly happenings at or around Blickling Hall at Blickling, Norfolk (near Aylsham) -- said Hall having been the childhood home of Ann Boleyn. The most prominent said phantoms are Ann herself (headless, of course); and her father Thomas Boleyn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arbroath also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Arbroath is well-known for its "smokies" (=smoked haddock). A close Scottish-east-coast-culinary connection is with the "trademark" dish of Cullen (Moray) -- Cullen Skink: nothing to do with limb-challenged lizards; but a soup with smoked haddock as its basic ingredient.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lauder in the Scottish Borders was also created a Royal Burgh prior to 1214AD.

 

[John Griffiths]

Formby also shared its name with that of a music hall/variety performer

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kielder in Northumberland is another area where red squirrels still thrive.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thorpe Thewles also has an astronomical observatory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkenhead also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

Wilfred Owen, poet of World War I (killed in the last days of that conflict) spent some of his childhood and youth, and underwent some of his education, in Birkenhead. Between 1911 and 1913 he lived in Dunsden Green, near Reading.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yattendon in Berkshire is also a settlement with a microbrewery.

 

[Calthrop]

Sarum (archaic name for Salisbury) also gives its name to a hymnal = collection of hymns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Edinburgh has a suburb, which reputedly makes a big thing of its gentility, called Morningside. There's another Morningside -- seeming (with all due respect) less salubrious -- most of the way to Glasgow: in North Lanarkshire -- this one is a former coal-mining village.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

According to local legend, a large battle occurred on the site of Morningside during the English invasion of 1385. The English sent a force of around 1,000 men to raid Lanarkshire, the Scots (commanded by the leaders of Clan Muir and Clan Douglas) met them at "Morranside"; the battle ended in a Scottish victory with the English being pushed back to Biggar.

 

[Calthrop]

But we got our own back 128 years later at Flodden, Northumberland.

 

[John Griffiths]

Which was fought rather closer to Branxton than to Flodden itself. Another misnamed battle was that of Hastings, fought at the conveniently-named Battle.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Battle lies on the route of the A2100, which is a non-primary A Road in East Sussex. It runs from near the village of Mountfield, East Sussex to Baldslow to the north of Hastings.

 

[Calthrop]

The next village to Mountfield, is Whatlington: which has two almost-namesakes, without the h -- in Norfolk, south of King's Lynn; and in Oxfordshire. Having tossed a coin, I hereby pick Watlington, Norfolk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Unmarked, although named, roads run from Watlington to the A10 via the hamlet of Tottenhill Row.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tottenham also takes its name from the Old English name Tota or Totta.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muswell Hill also lies on the line of the River Moselle.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Primrose Hill is also included in the lyrics of the "Driving in My Car" by Madness (it's where he bought it from).

 

[Calthrop]

Primrose Hill is also included in the lyrics of the "Driving in My Car" by Madness (it's where he bought it from).

We learn that contrary to rumour, Primrose Hill is not named after Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and Prime Minister 1894 - 95 (this mistaken attribution, due to the vigorous expansion north-westward of London's underground rail system during his term as P.M.) -- the name has been around since the 15th century. The aforesaid noble gent died, aged 82, in Epsom.

... also lies on the line of the River Moselle.

I thought for a moment, "@Xenophon PCDGS has really lost it..." -- then I got on to Wiki .

 

[John Griffiths]

Muswell Hill also lies on the line of the River Moselle.

A wonderful and intriguing name for a North London stream. Anyway, revenons a nos moutons

 

[John Griffiths]

Epsom salt, magnesium sulphate, was named after the spa waters in which the supposedly health giving substance was found. Another salt conducive to wellbeing was Andrews Liver Salt, first made in premises close to the medieval St Andrew's Church in Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The city of Newcastle upon Tyne developed around a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius, which later took the name of a castle built in 1080 by William the Conquerer's eldest son, Robert Curthose. He was born in Normandy in c1051 and died as a prisoner of his brother, Henry in the castle at Cardiff in 1134, aged about 83.