D6130
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Slightly OT as regards the game, but my wife - Harrogate born and bred - informs me that the flower show still takes place within the borough boundaries, at the Great Yorkshire Showground.
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Googled material seemed to be telling me that the HFS takes place at Newby Hall near Ripon -- not a million miles from Harrogate, but not actually there or within the borough: but I'm not well-up-on things Northern, and could be way off-beam !
D6130
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You're quite correct....the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show will take place at 'our fabulous new venue at Newby Hall, near Ripon from 17-19 September'. My wife a career reference librarian, now retired, sends her abject apologies!
No worries -- I was relying totally on Net info: have made in my life two brief visits to Harrogate, and never been to Ripon (not in time, and in the wrong part of the country, to be able to travel on the Harrogate -- Northallerton line before it closed).
DerekC
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In 1932 Frank Perkins and Charles Wallace Chapman designed a lightweight, high speed diesel engine which proved to be the forerunner of all modern automotive diesels. Perkins set up his factory in Peterborough but lived in Alwalton.
For Peterborough people a hundred-odd years ago, a favourite getaway spot out of the city was the attractive wooded walk alongside the River Nene, called Alwalton Lynch. The more venturesome and / or affluent could go some seven miles out of the city, to visit the ruins of Crowland Abbey.
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The Abbot of Crowland, John Lytlington, established what was later to become Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1428.
Later in the 15th Century the institution became known as Buckingham College as a result of the patronage of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Later in the 15th Century the institution became known as Buckingham College as a result of the patronage of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Buckingham is supposedly the last resting-place of the little-known Saxon saint St. Rumbold -- allegedly the grandson of King Penda of Mercia, and allegedly having died three days after his birth, but having during that very short life, repeatedly professed the Christian faith. It is reckoned that Romaldkirk, County Durham, may be named after him.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Barningham in County Durham was also once administered by the Wapentake of Gilling-West.
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Buglawton in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the Macclesfield Canal.
Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (1839 -- 1918), campaigner for social, legal and political equality for women, including their right to vote; lived for many years in Buglawton. Another woman active for suffrage for her sex, was Emily Davison (who died for that cause in 1913, tragically and, it seems, unintentionally): born in the London Borough of Greenwich.
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Dartmouth is another settlement where a Naval College was established.
Christopher Robin Milne (1920 - 1996), the real-life son of A.A. Milne -- CRM immortalised by his father, in the Winnie-the-Pooh books and other works: long owned and ran a bookshop in Dartmouth. The action of the Pooh books takes place in recognisable locations in Ashdown Forest, where the Milne family lived in the 1920s -- near Hartfield, East Sussex.
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Ringmer in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
Ringmer's cherished emblem is Timothy the tortoise: after one which (in fact a female) belonged to an aunt -- resident in Ringmer -- of the naturalist / vicar Gilbert White of Selborne, Hampshire; who in 1780 took over, and took into his own keeping at Selborne, said reptile. Timothy died in 1794, a year after White.
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St Agnes in Cornwall also has a pottery.
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Perranzabuloe in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Powder.
Much celebrated in Perranzabuloe, is Saint Piran; reckoned to have ministered, and died, there -- his name making the "Perran" part of that of the settlement. Saint P. (who is agreed to have been Irish by birth) has been traditionally -- it would seem, not officially -- identified with the Irish Saint Ciaran of Saigir: who was born on Cape Clear Island (present-day population 147), County Cork.
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An Óige, the Irish Youth Hostel Association, has a youth hostel on Cape Clear Island (under non-COVID circumstances, open only from Easter to the end of September).
Another An Óige hostel is located at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.
Another An Óige hostel is located at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cloyne in County Cork also has a noted example of a stone-built round tower.
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Heswall (the one on the Wirral) also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady and St John.
Poll Hill, the highest point in the Wirral, is within Heswall's town limits (it's not very high -- 109m above sea level). Another not-too-impressive greatest eminence is Beacon Hill, near West Runton -- Norfolk's, and East Anglia's, highest point, at 103m.
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Beeston Regis in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of North Erphingham.
The above-bolded settlement acquired its "Regis" suffix as from 1399, when King Henry IV came to the throne: its living and manor becoming part of the Crown and Lancaster inheritance. Bognor Regis (West Sussex), in contrast, became "Regis" in 1929; on being chosen by George V's advisors, as a suitable seaside retreat for him.
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Bognor was the site of Billy Butlin's first commercial venture, the Recreation Shelter, opened in 1929. That seems to have been a kind of arcade, with one armed bandits and dodgems. His first holiday camp, however, was opened in Skegness in 1936.
Incidentally the award of the title "Regis" seems to have been despite the well known quotation "bugger Bognor" which is said, according to one story, to have been uttered by KGV when asked whether he would consent to it.
Incidentally the award of the title "Regis" seems to have been despite the well known quotation "bugger Bognor" which is said, according to one story, to have been uttered by KGV when asked whether he would consent to it.
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Mavis Enderby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
Sounds like the name of an elderly lady where in a small village you would be expecting to run the local Post Office...
Sounds like the name of an elderly lady where in a small village you would be expecting to run the local Post Office...
Mavis Enderby's church is roofed in part with Westmorland green slate; which is quarried at, among other places, Elterwater (Cumbria).
Sounds like the name of an elderly lady where in a small village you would be expecting to run the local Post Office...
I like the tale about M.E. and another double-barrel-name village a couple of miles away: featuring on a "waymarking" sign which read "To Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby"; under which some wag wrote, "The gift of a son". (Lincolnshire has IMO the best place names in England; admittedly I'm biased, it being the county of my birth.)