EbbwJunction1
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In the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer was in charge of the village of Withypool in his duties as forester of North Petherton.
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There is an establishment at North Petherton called Follyfoot Fishery -- stocked with various kinds of carp. That name is perhaps more familiar from the Follyfoot children's-fiction series (also adapted for television) about a "retirement home" for horses: by the author Monica Dickens (great-grand-daughter of Charles); who died in 1992, aged 77, at Roedean, Sussex.
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Roedean has a girls school as does Sherbourne Dorset, perhaps better known for the boys school
Xenophon PCDGS
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Is that a different settlement in Dorset to Sherborne?
If I may take it that irrespective of spelling, we know which settlement is concerned: Captain Christopher Levett (1586 -- 1630), born in York -- explorer of parts of the North American coast, and associated with British colonising of Virginia -- lived at one stage of his life in the above-quoted-bolded settlement, in his post as His Majesty's Woodward of Somersetshire.
EbbwJunction1
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The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker Raids were a series of attacks by the Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second World War. The name derives from Baedeker, a series of German tourist guidebooks, including detailed maps, which were used to generate targets for bombing. York was one of the places attacked, as was Poole (although, of course, it's not a city!).
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"Llanfair", St Mary's, is one of the commonest place names in Wales. Llanfairfechan even has a suffix meaning 'small'.
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Kinfauns, near Perth, was also the location of a Countrywide Holidays Association walking holiday centre.
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Ludlow in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Laurence.
Warminster, Wiltshire, also has a twin town in the French departement of Orne, in Normandy. Warminster's "twin" is Flers: Ludlow's is La Ferte-Mace (where the capital-letters-eschewing American poet e.e.cummings, who did ambulance work on the Western Front in World War I, which he opposed; was imprisoned in 1917 on suspicion of espionage and undesirable activities -- I know people have been avid to know that 
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Sleaford in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Denys.
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Family-owned Turnbull Building & Plumbing Supplies trade from a number of branches around Lincolnshire, including one at Brigg.
EbbwJunction1
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Brigg Town FC is the local football club, who are known locally as the Zebras for their black and white striped home kit. The team has won the FA Vase twice—once in 1996 and again in 2003. On the first occasion, they played Clitheroe FC of the Northern Premier League, beating them 3 - 0 at Wembley Stadium to lift the trophy.
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Old-school variety and BBC radio comedian Jimmy Clitheroe was born in his namesake town of Clitheroe.
He died (following an apparently accidental overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol following his mother's death) at an early age of 51 in his home town of Blackpool.
He died (following an apparently accidental overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol following his mother's death) at an early age of 51 in his home town of Blackpool.
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Great Yarmouth also has a Pleasure Beach.
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NEWPORT Gwent also has a near-namesake on the Isle of Wight.
Crawshay Bailey, hero of the much-loved daft song: had according to said ditty, a sibling who played one sport for the abovementioned Newport; and another who played another, for Caerphilly.
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Another settlement lending its name to a variety of cheese (can't say I've ever tasted Bonchester cheese myself, though) is the Roxburghshire village of Bonchester Bridge.
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Hobkirk in Roxburghshire also lies on the line of the Rule Water.
An eighteenth-century ancestor of the Canadian Trudeau political "dynasty" -- Robert Elliott -- was born in Hobkirk; subsequently emigrating to Canada. There is something of a parallel concerning Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia essentially 1939 up to the 1960s; whose maternal grandparents were born in Penzance, Cornwall.
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Towednack in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.
We learn that there are somewhat similar legends concerning Towednack; and North Brentor, Devon (near Tavistock). From what I can make out from Wiki's rather terse recountings: in both cases, it was a contest between the local folk trying to build a substantial structure, and the Devil "messing with" their so doing. At Towednack, it was a tower of some kind, and the Devil won; at North Brentor, it was the church, and the locals prevailed.
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Milton Abbot in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Tavistock.
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In the parish of Milton Abbot is Endsleigh Cottage. This was built between 1810 and 1816 by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire as a private family residence to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville in the style of the picturesque movement, a grand form of the cottage orne; it is now a hotel. Sir Jeffry Wyatville was responsible for the addition of the Chancel to St Michael's Church, also known as St Michael and All Angels, in the village of Marbury, Cheshire in 1822.
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Bettisfield village lies close to Fenn's, Whixhall and Bettisfield Mosses, an area of peat bog which was declared a national nature reserve in 1996 because of its importance for wildlife. The reseve straddles the border between England and Wales, near Whixall and Ellesmere in Shropshire and Bettisfield in Wrexham.
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The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Kidlington dates from 1220 but there is evidence of a church on the site since AD 1073. It's tower has a ring of eight bells, the oldest (known as the seventh) being cast by Richard III Chandler of Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire in 1700.