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The beach at Aberdaron is a noted spot for surfing, as is the beach at the Cornish village of Sennen Cove.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Newquay is also a Cornish settlement well regarded by surfing enthusiasts.
Have just found from Wiki, that Newquay's Cornish name is "Tewinblustri" -- wondrous title, I feel (suppose that the north Cornish coast is indeed quite blustery !). Another location with English, and local-language, names: is the mountain Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon -- rather a controversy going on at the present time, about that issue. Said mountain's chief access point is the town of Llanberis.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blaenau Ffestiniog also has historicl links to the quarrying of slate.
I understand that Blaenau Ffestiniog -- being a characterful but irredeemably ugly town, owing largely to its being surrounded by huge artificial hills of stone rejected in the slate-mining process: is for that reason, in its small "non-park island" within the Snowdonia National Park. A parallel with the Solwayside industrial area -- Workington one of its chief and perceivedly especially grim, towns; whose proximity to the Lake District just to the east, and the great contrast thus set up: has often been commented on.
Springs Branch
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Having once spent a considerable time huddled in the doorway of a closed-up shop on a very cold and rainy Sunday afternoon in the BF district of Tanygrisiau, I can definitely attest to this statement.
Workington was the birthplace of the long-lamented Leyland National bus.
A large number of Britain's buses were also manufactured at the Eastern Coach Works (ECW) plant in Lowestoft.
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Re the "main" island of Great Britain -- not counting its numerous "offshore islands" -- Lowestoft is reckoned to be the furthest-east settlement on that geographical entity. The reckoned westernmost is Portuairk (Highland), at the far-western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
(A few years ago, for the first time I spent a little time actually in Workington, as distinct from passing through by train without alighting. Impression got, was that while the town will never be a radiant jewel in Britain's tourist crown; it was a nicer place than I'd hitherto imagined.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Swordie Corrach is another settlement that evacuees from clearances established themselves.
A "poser" -- too obscure a place to feature on Wiki: "passing the problem on" here, I suppose; but the hamlet of Sutton Maddock, south-east of Telford, is likewise too small and obscure to, "by name and identification", feature on Wiki !
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kemberton in Shropshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Shifnal Poor Law Union
John Griffiths
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The Northumberland town of Morpeth also held 'Olympic Games' prior to Baron de Coubertin's 1896 jollifications.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashington also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.
John Griffiths
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Beryl Cook (1926-2008) established her reputation with rather jolly paintings of Plymouth low life. She was born, of all places, in Egham, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Crowland in Lincolnshire also had an abbey that was attacked by Danish invaders.
For the above-bolded settlement, an alternative (archaic) spelling -- still sometimes used, especially in the theological field -- is "Croyland" (from Latin Croilandia). Another place with a (former) abbey; and spelling constant, but two alternative pronunciations according to choice: is Woburn, Bedfordshire -- first syllable can be either "woe", or "woo".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Birkdale in Merseyside also has a golf course that has hosted the Women's British Open Championship.
Springs Branch
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Former Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint (who followed in the steps of his father and uncle as a hangman) spent his retirement and final days in Birkdale. Pierrepoint was born in the West Yorkshire village of Clayton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Falkirk also has a church that is dedicated to St Anthony.
John Griffiths
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Limerick is also twinned with Quimper in Brittany
Limerick is associated with the semi-autobiographical works (Angela's Ashes and others) by Frank McCourt, centred around his growing up in poverty and misery in that city. Some similarity here with the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy by Flora Thompson; telling of a considerably happier -- but definitely poor -- childhood and youth a few decades earlier, in the English south Midlands. "Candleford Green" in those books, is reckoned to be a fictionalised portrayal of Fringford, Oxfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tusmore in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ploughley.
Springs Branch
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St Margaret's at Cliffe in Kent was also the scene of an aircraft crash during World War 2.
EbbwJunction1
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Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed at St Margaret's at Cliffe during the Second World War, and bought a house on the cliffs after the war. In 1939, he appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Repertory Theatre, where he performed in a different accent every night.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Watford also lies on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.
EbbwJunction1
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The Mayor of Watford is one of only 18 directly elected Mayors in England and Wales; another one is in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pinxton in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the very large area coverage of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
johnnychips
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The Hurt Arms in Ambergate is a well known pub, and I can’t find another one of that name. However, the actor John Hurt was born in nearby Chesterfield.