The civil parish of Ardamine contains, or did, a fair number of "townlands" (quasi-settlement areas which rural Ireland tends to "do", rather more than villages Great Britain-style): including Ballyduff Lower, and Upper ditto. There are a number of Ballyduffs in Ireland: one of the more sizeable -- a proper village -- being Ballyduff, Co. Kerry (a little way west of Listowel). (There was a Ballyduff Halt on the Cavan & Leitrim 3ft. gauge system's Arigna branch; though of course that's not relevant here !)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Glendalough in County Wicklow also has a round tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Jarrow in Tyne and Wear was another settlement to suffer from the actions of Viking raiding parties in the period AD793 to AD794.
John Griffiths
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Jarrow is at the southern end of the world's first sub-riparian bicycle tunnel. The other end is in Howdon, North Tyneside
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stratford-upon-Avon also has a place of worship named as the Church of the Holy Trinity.
Springs Branch
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Based on the extent of the underlying Jurassic limestone, the Cotswolds is an area extending from Stratford-upon-Avon at its northern extremity to Radstock in the south.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Babington in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Kilmersdon.
EbbwJunction1
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Babington is a small village between Radstock and Frome, Somerset, which has now largely disappeared. One of the surviving buildings is the Church of St Margaret, which is a Grade I Listed Building and owned and operated by the St Margaret's, Babington, Charitable Trust. It is thought to date from 1748 and was probably built by John Strahan or William Halfpenny; it is considered to be very similar in conception to Redland Chapel (also a Grade I Listed Building) by the same architects in the Redland suburb of Bristol.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Compton Greenfield in South Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Clifton Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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The parish church of All Saints, Compton Greenfield, is a Grade II* Listed Building, with a Norman arch in its porch. The churchyard is the final resting place of Sir George White, the founder (with his brother Samuel) of the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1910. Sir George was born on 28th March 1854 in Kingsdown, Bristol and died, aged 64, at Stoke Bishop on 22nd November 1916.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Auchtermuchty in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthew.
John Griffiths
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Auchtermuchty was frequently referred to in his Sunday Express column by the journalist and newspaper editor Sir John Junor, as a bastion of homely common sense. Junor was not himself from Auchtermuchty, though: he was born in 1919 in Glasgow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire also has a Zion Baptist Church.
johnnychips
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The goalkeeper Steve Ogrizovic came from Sutton, and played a lot of his career at Coventry City.
The people of Coventry have long had a reputation in folklore / cliche, as being awkward, contrary so-and-so's: something Coventrians are proud of -- the city's unofficial motto is "Do different". There is reckoned to be something a little akin, about the people of Kingston-upon-Hull -- probably in part, to do with its having long been England's most isolated city -- Hull folk have tended to be regarded as a bit eccentric and odd.
johnnychips
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According to the proverb, ‘From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us!’ As we can’t have places in Norway, it will have to be Halifax.
Skipton also has a building society named after it.
(I gather that the Hull / Hell / Halifax tag originated from, in the "bad old days", the local authorities of Hull and Halifax being especially merciless toward vagrants -- even harmless ones.)
johnnychips
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Now you say it, I do remember that is where the saying came from. Anyway, you used to be able to get a bus - lovely Pennine Motors orange and black - to Malham from Skipton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gayle in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the noted long-distance footpath known as the Pennine Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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When I was very much younger and sang with a folk group. that specific phrase was the last line of each chorus but the words we used were "From Hull and Halifax and Hell, God Lord deliver me" I think the song was called "The beggars litany"
In the 18th century a breakaway Protestant sect, much akin to the Sandemanian same, was active in Gayle; the same "branchlet" of Christianity was also prominent for a time in Whitehaven.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Southwold in Suffolk also has historical links to the trade of rope making.
johnnychips
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Whereas Southwold has a famous brewery in Adnams, Stockport has a renowned brewery in Robinson’s.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Northenden also lies on the line of the River Mersey.
Pitlochry (Perthshire) also has a fish-ladder on its local river, to enable fish going upstream for spawning, to by-pass man-made obstacles. Northenden's river is the Mersey (must, gratifyingly, be purer than was once the case); Pitlochry's, the Tummel.
DerekC
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Robert Watson-Watt, co-inventor and leader of radar development in WWII, lived in Pitlochry towards the end of his life and is buried there. He is commemorated in a memorial at Upper Stowe in Northamptonshire, where the first experimental detection of an aircraft by radio waves took place on 26th February 1935.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chrisleton in Cheshire also has a church that is dedicated to St James.
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Market Drayton in Shropshire is also on the route of the Shropshire Union canal.