And also on that long-disused and to me rather fascinating man-made waterway (recently the object of some restoration work) the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
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And also on that long-disused and to me rather fascinating man-made waterway (recently the object of some restoration work) the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Bridgwater in Somerset was also a noted settlement that was affected by the actions of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.
Lewes, East Sussex, is also notable for large-scale, fire-and-lights showy November 5th commemoration. The religious-strife element from centuries ago from which this as a festival date originated, is still in evidence at Lewes; but one gathers that at Bridgwater, Nov. 5th is now purely a fun thing.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Pancras.
One of the bunch of people most famously associated with Widecombe-in-the-Moor (viz. in the song) had surname-wise, a real-life namesake in the shape of the chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy, born in Penzance.
(I'd never hitherto thought of St. Pancras other than as the Midland Railway's London terminus. Have just remedied that state of affairs by Googling the actual saint -- for doing so, the station took some getting past !)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Perranuthnoe in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.
The mansion Acton Castle (a Grade II listed building) is the most noted building in the area of Perranuthnoe. It is reckoned to have been built in the late 18th century, to the order of the distinguished botanist John Stackhouse (1742 -- 1819). After long residence at Acton Castle, Stackhouse spent his last years in Bath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Monkton Combe in North East Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bath Forum.
Monkton Combe was used as the setting -- as the fictional village of Titfield -- for a film from the Ealing Comedies "stable" of same, said film greatly loved by many devotees of our particular hobby. Another comedy released a few years previously, by the same film-making outfit, was Whisky Galore (after the novel by Compton Mackenzie); filmed on the Hebridean island of Barra, whose chief settlement is Castlebay.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lytham St Annes in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
DerekC
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Aghadowey in County Londonderry also hosts a stock car racing track.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portstewart in County Londonderry is another settlement in the Causeway Coast and Glens District.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Galway also has a rowing club.
EbbwJunction1
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Galway United FC is based in the city and currently plays in the League of Ireland First Division at Eamonn Deacy Park. Wexford FC also play in the same division, and are based at Ferrycarrig Park, Crossabeg, County Wexford.
Crossabeg was the first "post" after his ordination, of Father James Dixon (1758 -- 1840), the first Catholic priest to minister in Australia (he got a free ride there courtesy of H.M. Government, for supposed involvement in the rebellion of 1798). Fr. Dixon was born in Castlebridge, a couple of miles from Crossabeg.
EbbwJunction1
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Bus Eireann route 379 (Wexford to Gorey) serves Castlebridge on Mondays and Saturday; it also serves Kilmuckridge and Courtown.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkham in Lancashire is also the location of an open prison establishment.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Astbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.
EbbwJunction1
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Astbury was one of the eight ancient parishes of the Hundred of Macclesfield, which included two chapelries and ten townships. Odd Rode was also one of those townships, and is now a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire.
Odd Rode has a pub called the Bleeding Wolf. Norwich had at one time, a pub (defunct as at nearly a century ago) called for a while, the Wounded Hart -- it was previously the Wounded Heart (religious connotations), and subsequently the Kitchener's Arms (a World War I renaming).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liverpool also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.
D6130
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Warrington is also beside the River Mersey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Teme.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brimscombe in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the Thames and Severn Canal.