Xenophon PCDGS
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Saltash in Cornwall also has a Pilot Gig club.
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EbbwJunction1
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Saltash is home to Saltash United FC, who play in the Western Football League Premier Division. Bitton AFC are also currently members of the same division and play at the Recreation Ground on Bath Road, Bitton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wick in South Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Boyd.
Springs Branch
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Dove Holes in Derbyshire has also been the location of a quarry operated by Mexican buidling materials multinational CEMEX.
DerekC
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The Buxton Mountain Rescue Team is based at Dove Holes. The Swaledale Mountain Rescue team, on the other hand, is based at Catterick Garrison.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Farnham in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St Joan of Arc.
William Cobbett (1763 -- 1835) -- soldier, journalist, author, and political and social commentator with strong views encompassing a wide reach of the political spectrum; was born in Farnham. During his life, he stood five times for election as a Member of Parliament, for various constituencies -- won just one of these elections, and accordingly took his seat: for Oldham, Lancashire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Over Hulton in the Greater Manchester area was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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High Throston in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hartlepool Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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The course at High Throston Golf Club was designed by Jonathon Gaunt of Gaunt Golf Designs in 2000 to exact USGA standards. Another course designed by the company is at Swaffham in Norfolk.
There seems to regularly crop up in this game, the theme of alarming large black hairy spectral "critters"; which would appear to obtain in East Anglia, more than anywhere else in Britain. Swaffham has one: per Wiki, "In medieval folklore, a black hairy beast called a faehu was rumoured to have wandered Swaffham and adjoining settlements, ambushing merchants who were on their way to market to sell their goods".
Such -- whatever-they-might-be -- are not exclusive to East Anglia. A counterpart from considerably elsewhere in these islands, is the spectral huge black dog called the "Moddey Dhoo": reputed to haunt the castle of Peel, Isle of Man.
EbbwJunction1
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Peel is the third largest town of the Isle of Man after Douglas and Ramsey but the fourth largest settlement, as Onchan has the second largest population but is classified as a village.
Weird "synchronicity" if that's the word -- Onchan has, it appears, a totally different Manx name: Kione Droghad = "Bridge End". Also, has a very nearby nature reserve, good among other things for seeing hen harriers (tending to be persecuted in the rest of Britain, but thriving on the Isle of Man). A premier hen-harrier site elsewhere in our islands, is Loch Gruinart on the Scottish island of Islay; nearest significant settlement to which, is the village of Bridgend.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Enquiring after -- of course, to be respected -- rules of the game: my cited Bridgend, is on the Scottish island of Islay. Post #22,994 refers to places in South Wales, including the significant town of Bridgend. Is the "association link" valid thus, re namesake settlements; even if geographically far apart, and very different in character?
Xenophon PCDGS
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I struck-out that posting a minute after posting it.
My posting obviously intervened -- apologies !
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portnahaven on the Isle of Islay also lies on the route of the A847 road.
Portnahaven lies at the southernmost tip of the peninsula off the island of Islay, called the Rhinns of Islay. "Rhinns" would seem in Scottish parlance, to refer to a roughly axe-shaped peninsula, joined to the mainland by a narrow-ish median isthmus. The south-west of mainland Scotland has a similar feature, the Rhinns of Galloway; whose southernmost significant settlement, Drummore, is reckoned to be the southernmost village in Scotland.
EbbwJunction1
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Drummore is at the southern end of the A716, which starts just outside Stranraer; the next settlement going north from Drummore is Kilstay.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brae in Shetland also has a sailing club.
Post invalid: we learn that there are in fact numerous different settlements on the Shetland island of Yell ! "Taking off" once more, from @Xenophon PCDGS's post #23,002 of Brae.
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Another of Brae's clubs is? are? the Delting Dolphins: which claim to be the northernmost swimming club in the UK. One of their most southerly counterparts must be Swim Wild Cornwall, based in Truro; which features among other things, sea swimming.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kings Langley in Hertfordshire was also chosen as a site for a Dominican friary.
EbbwJunction1
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The former England and Watford (and other teams) Manager Graham Taylor OBE died in Kings Langley on 12th January 2017; he was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire on 15th September 1944.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Stockwith in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.
EbbwJunction1
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West Stockwith is also on the junction of the River Idle and the River Trent. The source of the former is the confluence of the River Maun and the River Meden, near Markham Moor.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wallingwells in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Worksop Poor Law Union.