In Roman times, Aldborough was Isurium Brigantum -- the local Brigantes tribe's capital. There is nowadays an undertaking named Brigantes -- based at Halton Gill, North Yorkshire (some way south of Hawes), which in various ways facilitates walking and cycling holidays in northern England's hill country.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Felixstowe in Suffolk is another settlement that was chosen as a site of a Martello Tower.
Felixstowe is named after Saint Felix of Burgundy (regrettably, nothing to do with cartoon black cats). The Saint was the first bishop of the East Angles, in the 7th century A.D.; after his death, his relics were bestowed at various sites -- latest of those being the abbey of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Harrogate also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burscough in West Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
DerekC
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Burscough was the home of an RNAS airfield in WWII, used as a training facility for carrier landings. Amongst others, 809 Naval Air Squadron were trained there on the Seafire before deployment to HMS Stalker, from which they supported the landings at Salerno. Recently re-formed, the squadron is now based at RAF Marham when not on deployment to HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abergavenny in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Whitstable in Kent also has a church that is dedicate to St Alphage.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bere Alston in Devon also has a badminton club.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edinburgh also hosts an annual Literary Festival.
EbbwJunction1
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HM Royal Yacht Britannia is, in retirement, permanently moored at the Ocean Terminal in Leith, which is a district of Edinburgh. She was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, being launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16th April 1953, and commissioned on 11th January 1954.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Borrowstounness in West Lothian is another settlement on the line of the Roman Antonine Wall.
Department of long, cumbersome settlement names being made more manageable: the above-bolded one is, as an officially sanctioned and practised thing, often abbreviated to Bo'ness. In Devon there's the quite famous "W-place": shortened in a less official manner, by the way in which it's pronounced locally. Have just discovered that as well as the thus-named village near Clovelly; there's another of the same name, also in Devon -- north of Crediton and west of Tiverton -- which I'd never before heard of. Name Woolfardisworthy -- I'll plump for the one near Clovelly. I gather that this one, and its namesake further east, are both pronounced "Woolsery".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkburton in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Hallows.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Abbs in Berwickshire also has a fishing memorial.
EbbwJunction1
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St Abbs was originally known as Coldingham Shore. The name St Abbs was adopted in the 1890s, and derived from St Abb's Head, a rocky promontory located to the north of the village, itself named after the 7th century saint AEbbe of Coldingham (c. 615 – 683) who was an Anglican abbess and noblewoman. As well as a monastery at St Abbs, she also founded one at Ebchester, County Durham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eyemouth in Berwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Ebba.
DerekC
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The Eye Water flows into the sea at Eyemouth. It rises in remote country in the Lammermuir Hills on the eastern slopes of Wester Dod. The first place it passes through is Grantshouse.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tranent in East Lothian also lies on the route of the A1 road.
In his gloomy poem Lament for the Makaris (reflecting on the fact that everybody dies), the Scottish poet William Dunbar (1459 -- 1520) mentions among fellow-writers contemporary or earlier: the Clerk of Tranent; and the Englishman John Lydgate, born in Lidgate, Suffolk (near Newmarket).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilpeck in Herefordshire is another settlement where a motte and bailey castle was erected.
DerekC
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The Kilpeck Inn serves "Butty Bach" from the Wye Valley Brewery, based in Bromyard.