Shades of John Buchan's thrillers -- The Thirty-Nine Steps and following therefrom: where Hannay finds that his German arch-enemy, the implacable and sadistic Oberhauptmann-or-whatever Von Stumm, relaxes when off-duty by doing highly delicate and intricate embroidery.
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Shades of John Buchan's thrillers -- The Thirty-Nine Steps and following therefrom: where Hannay finds that his German arch-enemy, the implacable and sadistic Oberhauptmann-or-whatever Von Stumm, relaxes when off-duty by doing highly delicate and intricate embroidery.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Duxford in Cambridgeshire is another settlement that holds an Advent Market.
DerekC
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Grantchester Meadows is a song recorded by the rock band Pink Floyd. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London.
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Rihanna lived in St John’s Wood until recently, having anecdotally first stayed in the area after filming the video for “We Found Love”, which was filmed in New Lodge, Belfast
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One of the features of New Lodge was the Victoria Barracks, but it was demolished in the 1960s. There is a barracks of the same name in Ballater which houses soldiers of the Royal Guard when the Queen is at Balmoral.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Braemar in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.
Springs Branch
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Under normal circumstances, the Queen and other senior royals are regular attendees at the annual Braemar Gathering.
Another regular Royal sporting fixture has been the horse racing at Ascot.
Another regular Royal sporting fixture has been the horse racing at Ascot.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Collyhurst in the Manchester area also has a church with an apsidal chancel.
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Collyhurst Hall was once the seat of the Mosley family, lords of the manor of Manchester. The most famous (or notorious) family member was Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th baronet, who after a period as Labour MP for Smethwick founded the British Union of Fascists.
The Galton Bridge in Smethwick (as in the local rail station's name), spanning the New Line Canal and the railway, was built in 1829 by Thomas Telford; at the time of opening, it was the longest single-span bridge in the world. An identical bridge by Telford, opened fractionally later, spans the River Severn at Holt (Worcs.), a little way north of Worcester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Maidstone in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.
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Maidstone is the county town of Kent.
Another non-intuitive county town is that for Derbyshire - Matlock.
Another non-intuitive county town is that for Derbyshire - Matlock.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wrexham also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.
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Relatively few towns and cities in the UK have a twin town located in Poland.
However two settlements which do are Wrexham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
However two settlements which do are Wrexham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Knotty Green in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Amersham Poor Law Union.
(But unlike a similarly named settlement further north, it has no jam-butty mines
.)Monyash, Derbyshire (near Bakewell) also has an extant dew pond.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberdeen also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.
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There was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance, another of Sullivan's operas is Haddon Hall with the libretto by Sidney Grundy
Xenophon PCDGS
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Haddon Hall is not a settlement as such and we need to know in what settlement it resides in.
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Bakewell Derbyshire
There is in Bakewell the Brew School: reckoned the UK's largest dedicated brewing and distilling school. It would seem to have an Irish counterpart -- the Irish Whiskey Academy, self-described as a "state of the art training facility", at Midleton (Co. Cork).
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Abbeydomey in County Kerry is another settlement that was chosen as the site of a Cistercian Abbey.
The Irish-language equivalents of the above-bolded; and Monasterevin, Co. Kildare; are similarly constructed. For the Kerry settlement: Mainistir O dTorna = Monastery of the clan of Torna; for the Kildare one, Mainistir Eimhin = Monastery of Saint Evin [Eimhin].
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Graiguenamanagh on the border between County Kilkenny and County Carlow also lies on the line of the River Barrow.
Struggling to find much to say about this particular Irish jaw-breaker: apologies for continuing similar-ish theme. Graiguenamanagh's "county border" situation occasions the settlement's having effectively two names: west of the river in Kilkenny, it's the G-place; east thereof in Carlow, it's Tinnahinch. Things are rather similar re Bures in East Anglia, split by the River Stour dividing Essex from Suffolk. The Essex part is the parish of Bures Hamlet; the Suffolk ditto, Bures St. Mary.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Burnham in Buckinghamshire was also awarded a market charter in 1271.
Burnham has a pub called the Old Five Bells. Western Turville, a good deal further north in Buckinghamshire, has a pub called the Five Bells (which proclaims itself as dog-friendly).
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Nether Winchendon in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesbury Poor Law Union.