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Henley-on-Thames also has historical connections to being a Desmesne of the Crown.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Beadlow in Bedfordshire was also chosen as a site for a Benedictine Priory.
Beadlow lies on the River Flit; as does Shefford, Bedfordshire, a few miles downstream; where the Flit is joined by its tributary the Hit. (Also in these parts is the River Hiz, which we had in this game a little while ago; and which, like the Flit, flows into the River Ivel.)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Wrexham also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bideford is another settlement in which witch trials were held.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hull has also been accorded the title of UK City of Culture.
In the past, Dundee also needed ferry-provision, to shorten the distance to it if travelling (basically by land) from the south; but this situation was remedied by bridge-building, much earlier for the Scottish city, than for the Yorkshire one.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Walsingham in Norfolk also has a Russian Orthodox Church.
Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, lived and farmed near the above-bolded settlement in the World War II era. He was born in Brockley (London Borough of Lewisham). In his long cycle of autobiographical -- "thinly-disguised" -- novels: he calls the Norfolk settlement "Great Wordingham"; and the South London one, "Wakenham".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandringham in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
Wiki tells us that Sandringham's name is a cognate of that of the village of Dersingham, a couple of miles to the north. "Dersingham" means in Anglo-Saxon, "homestead or village of Deorsige's people"; whereas "Sandringham" is described as meaning "sandy Dersingham". All sounds so weird, that it might well be true !
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandgate in Kent also has an illustrated village sign.
DerekC
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Hastings was the site of a Roman iron mine, said to have been the most important in Britain. The most important lead mine in Roman Britain was at Charterhouse on Mendip.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cwmystwyth in Ceredigion is another settlement where silver mining was carried out during the time of the Roman occupation.
EbbwJunction1
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Cwmystwyth is on the National Cycle Route 8; further north, so is Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwyedd.
The above-bolded settlement used to be a significant centre for cockle-gathering -- thus its still bearing locally, the Welsh nickname Penrhyn Cocos. Cockles are gathered commercially nowadays, based at -- among other places on Morecambe Bay -- Newbiggin, Cumbria (near Barrow-in-Furness).
EbbwJunction1
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Newbiggin lies on an unclassified road called Newbiggin, which to the north joins the B5288. After the junction, the next settlement to the west is the village of Greystoke. Mr W Pedia is silent on whether Edgar Rice Burroughs took the village as the inspiration for the name of his character Tarzan, who's real name is John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke.
A bit of a "mix-up" element perceived here -- the North of England appears to be positively lousy with Newbiggins of one sort and another, including at least three in Cumbria. Mine in post 22,669 is different from the "Greystoke-related" one, near Penrith: I attempted to locate mine re Morecambe Bay, and Barrow. Oddly enough, the Greystoke / Tarzan connection featured in a post of mine some months ago -- an altogether different association, come-from there: I hypothesised there, that Burroughs may well have "borrowed" the name. Anyway, I think we can go on from Burroughs and Tarzan: another author of tales of tropical derring-do involving interaction with unsophisticated dwellers in those parts, was R.M. Ballantyne (1825 -- 94): who was born in Edinburgh.
EbbwJunction1
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Edinburgh has a speedway team, the Edinburgh Monarchs which, since the loss of its stadium in the city, has raced at the Lothian Arena in Armadale, West Lothian.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilwinning in North Ayrshire also has a noted flute band.
Robert W. Service (1874 -- 1958), British / Canadian writer who produced rhythmic and rumbustious ballads about Canada's "wild north-west" -- and about other subjects, and some prose works -- spent some of his childhood in Kilwinning; but he was born in Preston.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dilworth in Lancashire was also once under jurisdiction of the Preston Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Moira in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.
There is a factual -- not just coincidental -- link with this settlement's namesake Moira in County Down (near Lurgan). This Irish earldom was one of the titles of the Hastings family, which also held Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle, near the Leicestershire Moira.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lisburn in County Antrim also lies on the line of the Lagan Canal.