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We learn that Patricroft's name may possibly be derived from "pear-tree croft"; though other origins are likelier. The name of the Derby suburb of Pear Tree, however, comes for certain from the obvious root (after a one-time Pear Tree Farm in the vicinity).

 

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The Derby County, Middlesborough and England footballer Steve Bloomer (1874 – 1938) was born in Cradley, Worcestershire and moved to Derby as a child. The Bloomer family lived at 35 Portland Street in Pear Tree towards the end of his playing days.

 

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The Nonconformist strain of Protestant Christianity has also long been particularly prominent in Shebbear, North Devon (about twelve miles south of Bideford).

 

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Shebbear also has a co-educational college for boys and girls from 3 upwards as does Brighton from 4 upwards

 

[Calthrop]

Seaview, Isle of Wight, also formerly had a Chain Pier.

 

[DerekC]

Seaview once had a chain pier, designed by Frank Caws, an architect who worked most of his life in Sunderland. There he designed, amongst other buildings, the Elephant Tea Rooms. The tea rooms are still there but the pier was severely damaged in a gale in 1951, only three years after being listed Grade II. It could not be saved and the remains were demolished soon afterwards.

 

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The cookery writer Jane Grigson (1928 - 1990) spent her childhood in Sunderland. Her daughter Sophie, also a cookery writer, long lived with her family in Hellidon (Northamptonshire), near Daventry (she now lives in Italy).

 

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Grosmont in North Yorks. was also once a centre for ironstone mining.

 

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For three-and-a-bit centuries up to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, there was at Grosmont a priory of the rather obscure Grandmontine monastic order; one of only three religious houses of that order, in Britain. Another of the three was at Alberbury, Shropshire -- west of Shrewsbury, on the Welsh border.

 

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Alberbury is home to Loton Park, with the Loton Park Hill Climb (a part of the British Hill Climb Championship) being run by the Hagley and District Light Car Club.

 

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Hunnington in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union.

 

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The settlement to the south of Hunnington (and also on the B4551 Bromsgrove Road) is Romsley.

 

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Romsley's parish church is dedicated to the 8th / 9th century Saint Kenelm, a martyred youthful king of Mercia; whose body was interred at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. As often, Wiki does its stuff -- particularly it seems, on religion- and clergy-related topics -- of recounting in a decidedly solemn way, sometimes borderline-lunatic material; quoting is irresistible: "for many years, [Romsley] villagers celebrated St. Kenelm's Day (July 17th) with a village fair and the ancient custom of 'crabbing the parson' -- bombarding the unfortunate cleric with a volley of crab apples".

 

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Old Sodbury in South Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the Cotswold Way long-distance footpath.

 

[Calthrop]

Ludham, Norfolk -- north-west of Great Yarmouth -- also has a pub called the Dog.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salhouse in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thornham Parva in Suffolk also has a church with a thatched roof.

 

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Occold in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Hartismere.

 

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Occold lies just off the B1077 road: whose southern end is Ipswich; and northern end, at the point of its joining another -- east-to-west -- B road near Watton, Norfolk.

 

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Kildale in North Yorkshire also hosts an agricultural show.

 

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There is a monument to Captain James Cook, high on a hill about a mile and a half from Kildale. That guy seems to be commemorated in various ways, all over the area which he originally came from (not that one should begrudge him it -- he seems to have been an all-round excellent chap); Middlesbrough has the James Cook University Hospital.

 

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Newport in South Wales also has a transporter bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Kildare, at its nearby Cill Dara Golf Club, has also played host to the Ryder Cup.

 

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Although Kildare gives its name to the county, Naas is the county town.

 

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Letterkenny in County Donegal also has a church that is dedicated to the Irish Martyrs.

 

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Hindu temples are decidedly rare in Ireland; but Letterkenny has one. The Dublin suburb of Walkinstown has another.

 

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Englefield Green in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption.

 

[Calthrop]

Englefield Green was the scene in 1852, of the last fatal duel in England: between two French citizens, at least ostensibly refugees from Emperor Louis Napoleon's regime. The two were Frederic Constant Cournet; and Emmanuel Barthelemy (the victor, who was tried but ultimately acquitted). At much the same period, there were in 1855 angry -- but in this case not lethal -- doings, involving people in a similar situation: French opponents of Louis Napoleon, who had taken refuge in St. Helier, Jersey. Three journalists among their number published an open letter to Queen Victoria, condemning Britain for entering the Crimean War on the same side as France's tyrant emperor; with the letter being found lacking in proper respect for the Queen, there was much public commotion: the three, plus other French refugees, were expelled from Jersey -- though not from British territory.

 

[DerekC]

As St Helier is to Jersey, so St Peter Port is to Guernsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldershot in Hampshire also has a Boer War memorial.