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There is also a Royal Square in the centre of the Essex village of Dedham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nayland in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Stour.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hindon in Wiltshire is another settlement to have suffered from a "Great Fire".
Until the Reform Act of 1832, Hindon was a notoriously corrupt example of the abuses of the voting system that had gone on up to then (rotten / pocket boroughs and all that). Another such -- an actual "rotten borough" -- was Dunwich, Suffolk: a tiny village, but still treated re the voting process, as the sizeable town which it had been, until the loss of most of it to coastal erosion in medieval times.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hopton-on-Sea in Norfolk was also another site of the Chain Home Low early-warning radar system that was operated by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Barnham Broom in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Yare.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yelling in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Toseland.
With information re the above-bolded seeming a bit meagre: things on the facetious side tempt, concerning what one of the masters in my schooldays used to call "animal noises". In Shropshire -- between Telford and Market Drayton -- Yelling has a kind of companion in that realm: the village of Howle (actual alternative spelling "Howl").
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chetwynd in Shropshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newport (Salop) Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chegworth in Kent also lies on the River Len.
Springs Branch
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Chegworth Mill offers a Glamping accommodation to those who like this Yurty sort of thing.
Another Glamping site - possibly less bucolic and more rain-soaked than Kent - is located at the Llechwedd slate quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Another Glamping site - possibly less bucolic and more rain-soaked than Kent - is located at the Llechwedd slate quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanberis in Gwynedd also has historical links to the quarrying of slate.
EbbwJunction1
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This is far too strenuous for me, but Llanberis is the home of the Slateman Triathlon which runs in early summer each year. It attracts over 2,000 triathletes and many more spectators over two days. It is a mountain triathlon which begins in Llyn Padarn, follows on the bike up to Capel Curig, and finishes with a run in the Snowdonian mountains. (Time for a lie down after just typing this piece!)
Agreed -- these athletic wallahs, they crazy ! The "Curig" part of Capel Curig, comes from the dedication of the settlement's church to the early Christian martyrs, the three-year-old Saint Quiricus ("Curig" = that name "Welshicised") and his mother Julitta. Very few churches in Great Britain are dedicated to this saint-pair: another which is -- is that of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dagnall in Buckinghamshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carrickfergus in County Antrim also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.
EbbwJunction1
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Carrickfergus CC play their home matches at Middle Road, Carrickfergus, and are members of the Northern Cricket Union Premier League. One of their opponents in the 2021 season were North Down CC, who are based in Comber, County Down.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newtownards is another settlement in County Down that lies on the line of the Enier River (River Enier).
Rather "going large" and hoping for indulgence re same: Newtownards has an alley called "Devil's Elbow". On the A93 road over the Cairnwell Pass between Spittal of Glenshee (Perth & Kinross) and Braemar (Aberdeenshire): there is on the Perth & Kinross side of the county boundary, a feature likewise named "Devil's Elbow".
D6130
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Crathes in Aberdeenshire also has a Scottish Baronial-style Castle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Guildtown in Perth & Kinross also lies on the route of the A93 road,
EbbwJunction1
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Guildtown is on the path of the Carbusmichael Burn, which runs from it's source to it's end at a point nearly opposite the village of Stanley, which is on the north side of the River Tay.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kenmore in Perthshire also lies on the line of the River Tay.