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[LSWR Cavalier]

CARNO/Caer Noddfa, (town/fort of refuge), also lies on a tributary of the Severn/Hafren.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keynsham in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

Keynsham's name is reckoned, it seems, to mean "the home of St. Keyne". There is of course, a village of St Keyne in Cornwall -- home of the famous well *, the first one of a bridal pair to drink from which, is reputedly the one who will "wear the trousers".

(* with its Halt)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treverbyn in Cornwall also has a noted holy well within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

The parish of Treverbyn includes a Site of Special Scientific Interest -- Wheal Martyn: chief significance, geological -- noted examples of granite. There is another SSSI at Barnack, Cambridgeshire (just across the county border from Stamford) -- the "Hills and Holes": former stone quarries, principal "Interest" being botanical.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water Babies, The Water Babies, spent his childhood at the Rectory. Whilst his brother Henry was born there in 1830, Charles was born in Holne, Devon in 1819. They were the sons of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary Lucas Kingsley.

 

[Calthrop]

Holne's pub is called the Church House Inn -- feelings of nice mutual tolerance between sacred and secular places-to-repair-to. Torver, Cumbria (near Coniston) has a pub of the same name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The original St Luke's Church, Torver, was designed by Miles Thompson of Kendal, and built in 1849. A later work by the same architect is St James' Church in the village of Arnside, Cumbria, built between 1864 and 1866.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowan Head in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Kent.

 

[Calthrop]

Ireby, Cumbria, also lies just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park.

 

[DerekC]

Ireby lies on the Gill Beck, a headwater of the River Ellen which flows into the Solway Firth at Maryport

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helsby in Cheshire West and Chester is also a settlement where a Roman altar was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

The hill above Helsby has a sandstone formation known as The Old Man of Helsby (much-anticipated by excitable children on primary school excursions to Chester Zoo - at least it was in my class).

Another rock feature exploiting the psychological tendency to find facial features in inanimate objects is The Winking Man near the Staffordshire village of Upper Hulme.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leek in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Churnet.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A famous (and possibly unique) person born in Leek was Alice Tredwell (née Pickering) who was born in Leek in 1823. Her claim to uniqueness (if such a word exists!) was that she was an English railway contractor and photographer, best known for the completion of the Bhor Ghat section of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway line between Mumbai (then Bombay) and Pune (then Poona) in 1863.

She married Solomon Tredwell, a railway contractor, in Leeds in 1846. Awarded the contract for the construction of the line above, Alice and Solomon arrived in India in 1859. Solomon died of dysentery or cholera within a month. Alice took up the contract with a remarkable "degree of spirit and judgment", assigning the Railway's engineers Swainston Adamson and George Louis Clowser to manage the construction. The construction was completed by 1863. She also photographed much of the Bhor Ghat landscape and the development of the line.

Adamson and Clowser continued to work for Tredwell's company, extending the Peninsular railway towards Madras, constructing the section between Sholapur and Gulbarga. Alice returned to England in 1860, having inherited £70,000 from her husband. She died in Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 14th June 1867.

 

[Calthrop]

Ryde has the second-longest seaside pier in Britain. The longest, of course, is that of Southend-on-Sea.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Southend is the seaside vacation place chosen by the John Knightley family in Emma by Jane Austen, published 1816. The family arrived by stage coach, and strongly preferred it to the choice of the Perry family, Cromer, which was 100 miles from London, compared to the easier distance of 40 miles from the London home of the John and Isabella Knightley, as discussed at length with Mr Woodhouse in the novel in Chapter XII of volume one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moelfre in Anglesey also has an RNLI lifeboat station.

 

[Calthrop]

Seahouses, Northumberland, is also a good place for seeing seals.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Outchester in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the very large area size Belford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bamburgh lies also on the B1342 road; at the point where that one meets two other B roads.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Berwick-upon-Tweed was also another of the larger settlements of the Brythonic Kingdom of Bryneich.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cornhill-on-Tweed in Northumberland is also a place on the River Tweed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ranworth in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Calthrop]

From the top of the tower of Ranworth's mentioned church, one can see the coastal lighthouse at Happisburgh ten miles away.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kessingland in Suffolk is another town under the threat of coastal erosion.

 

[Calthrop]

H. Rider Haggard -- author of King Solomon's Mines and sundry other "tales of mystery and imagination" -- was born and spent much of his life in East Anglia, including living for some while in Kessingland. He is buried in Ditchingham, (just) in Norfolk: across the river from Bungay.

 

[johnnychips]

Ditchingham is the home of a ‘chicken roundabout’ whereas Swindon is the home of a ’Magic Roundabout’.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castle Eaton in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Swindon and Highworth Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bishops Cannings is another Wiltshire village with a Grade I-listed church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.