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Topcliffe in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the Great North Road.
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D6130
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Linton-on-Ouse, also in North Yorkshire, also has an RAF air station.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Goole is another settlement that lies on the line of the River Ouse.
EbbwJunction1
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Goole used to have two golf clubs (at Rawcliffe Park and at Airmyn Park), but they are both now defunct). Currently, the nearest golf clubs to Goole are the Boothferry Golf Club in Spaldington and the Drax Golf Club in Drax, North Yorkshire.
D6130
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Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire also has a large thermal power station.
EbbwJunction1
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The area (principally around the power station) was a filming location for the 2010 movie "Skeletons", although much of the film was shot around Matlock Bath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway also has a lead mining museum.
Wanlockhead is the highest village in Scotland. At the present time Meelin, Co. Cork (some 20 miles north-west of Mallow) is officially recognised as the highest village in Ireland; though Glencullen, Co. Dublin, is a strong rival claimant.
D6130
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Meelin, at 254m above sea level may claim to be the highest village in Ireland, but Glencullen is considerably higher at 276m. Charleville, which incidentally has a station on the Dublin-Cork main line, is also situated in the Cork North West Dail (parliamentary) constituency.
Eamonn De Valera, 20th-century Irish political leader, attended the Christian Brothers' School at Charleville; he spent a fair amount of his later life in the Dublin suburb of Blackrock, and died there.
(According to Wiki, Meelin's altitude is 251m; Glencullen's, 251.5m -- however, no-one claims Wiki as infallible !)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Athea in County Limerick was also chosen to receive a Carnegie Library.
DerekC
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Athea used to hold an annual motorcycle road race. Cookstown in County Antrim still does.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lurgan in County Armagh also has historical connections to the linen industry.
Springs Branch
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An Irish figure of speech having a face as long as a Lurgan spade originates, by some reports, from the miserable expression of under-paid labourers working in the vicinity of Lurgan. (Other interpretationsare available)
According to a survey on "Personal well-being in the UK" carried out by the Office for National Statistics, in 2015/2016 the most miserable place to live in Great Britain was Corby.
According to a survey on "Personal well-being in the UK" carried out by the Office for National Statistics, in 2015/2016 the most miserable place to live in Great Britain was Corby.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brigstock in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Corby.
EbbwJunction1
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St Andrew's Church, Brigstock, has one of only four Anglo-Saxon stair turrets in the country - and here it is:View attachment 101924
The other three are at Brixworth, West Northamptonshire, Broughton, North Lincolnshire and Hough-on-the-Hill, a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire.
The other three are at Brixworth, West Northamptonshire, Broughton, North Lincolnshire and Hough-on-the-Hill, a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glencarse in Perth and Kinross also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beckhampton in Wiltshire has the site of a long barrow within its environs.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanmihangel in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.
Google seems unwilling to admit to the existence of the above-bolded, as an actual settlement. I'm reduced to playing a bit dirty: telling of Llanmihangel as being about equidistant (two and a half miles in each direction) between Llandow, and Flemingston.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I did not want to respond to this query and contacted the person who holds a position in The Church in Wales, who holds much archive material concerning it. Fortunately, he was at home when I rang and he said that The Church in Wales knows more about the history of their churches than any secular body such as Google. He offers the following information....
The church of St Michael in Llanmihangel was founded as early ago as the thirteenth century with the earliest written reference to it being made in 1254. Additions to the original church building included a 15th century tower being added to the west side. Behind the western elevation of the cemetery, there is a medieval well of St Anne, with stairs leading down to the well water.
I -- rather a "heathen" -- bow to church-related learning as above. The Michelin Britain Road Atlas acknowledges the existence of Llanmihangel as a settlement, and shows it accordingly on the relevant sheet; but with godless Google having nothing to say about the place, I found self reduced to "emergency measures", as per my post #22,431. If someone churchly-erudite, wishes to make an alternative association to mine there -- fine by me.
(I notice that Wales has a number of "Llanfihangel" settlements; but this "m" variation on the theme, seems uncommon. RailUKforums has a number of participants knowledgeable about the Welsh tongue -- no doubt they could furnish relevant info...)
DerekC
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The controversial bard Iolo Morgannwg was born in Flemingston. He was found to have falsified a number of medieval Welsh manuscripts. Despite that, here is a school named after him in Cowbridge.
(The Llanmihangel situation is more complex than it seems - Ordnance Survey gives an alternative name for Llanmihangel of "Llanfihangel y Bont-faen". And then Google gives an alternative name "Llanmihangel y Twyn" for Flemingston. Oh, and Treffelemin, or Michaelston Le Mont, or Flimstone. Help!!)
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Springs Branch
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Cardiff is another Welsh settlement which has a twin city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France.
EbbwJunction1
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The Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain has been held at the Millennium Stadium (now the Principality Stadium) since 2001. Following it's inception in 1995, it was held at a number of venues before moving to Cardiff; the last of these was the now-closed Brandon Stadium (which was also known as Coventry Stadium), which was located 6 miles east of Coventry in Brandon, Warwickshire.
EbbwJunction1
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The Church of St Elwyn, Hayle was built between 1886 and 1888 to the design of John Dando Sedding (1838 – 1891). According to Pevsner it is "loud outside ... and dull inside". He was also the architect of St Edward's Church in the village of Netley near Southampton.
The novelist Jane Austen is thought at least to have briefly visited Netley. Another of the fairly large number of places in the more southerly parts of England where she spent time in the course of her shortish life, is Worthing, West Sussex.