johnnychips
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Bizarrely, Ossett was briefly a spa town. A more famous example is Bath.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Chelsea also lends its name to a type of bun.
Gavin Maxwell (1914 -- 1969), naturalist, traveller, and author -- especially about otter-"ownership" -- had a residence in Chelsea during the times which he spent in London. He was born at Elrig, Dumfries & Galloway (south-west of Wigtown) in the -- modern at the time of his birth -- "big house" there, written of in his childhood autobiographical memoir The House of Elrig.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Old Kilpatrick in Dunbartonshire is another settlement where a crannog was established.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burnley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary of the Assumption.
EbbwJunction1
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Panopticons is an arts and regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network managed by Mid Pennine Arts. It involved the construction of series of 21st century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area. Four large scale sculptures were commissioned, designed and constructed over a six-year period for the districts of Blackburn, Burnley (the Singing Ringing Tree), Pendle and Rossendale. The Halo in Haslingden (Rossendale) was the last sculpture in the series to be erected, in September 2007.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Buxton in Derbyshire also has historical links to quarrying.
EbbwJunction1
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Buxton's Grade I listed Crescent was built between 1780 and 1784 for the 5th Duke of Devonshire, as part of his effort to turn Buxton into a fashionable spa town. Modelled on Bath's Royal Crescent, it was designed by the York-based architect John Carr (1723–1807), along with the neighbouring irregular octagon and colonnade of the Great Stables. John Carr also designed the classical style grandstand building at Kelso, Roxburghshire; the building was designed in 1778, but was not built until 1822.
Surprisingly to me at any rate: Kelso's name is derived from an association with chalk. The earliest settlement in this spot, many centuries ago,stood on a chalky outcrop: hence its name Calkou, modified over time into "Kelso". Another chalk-related place name is Bowerchalke, situated in chalk hills -- in Wiltshire: near the meeting-point of that county, and Dorset and Hampshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mount Sorrel in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Chalke.
We learn that Mount Sorrel is a hamlet near the village of Broad Chalke. There is a better-known settlement with almost the same name -- Mountsorrel -- in Leicestershire, near Loughborough. No indication found as to derivation of the Wiltshire settlement's name -- but that of the Leicestershire one is reckoned not to be botanical; but to have originated in post-Norman Conquest times, being called after settlement with castle -- some similarities seen -- of Montsoreau in the Loire valley in France.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Croft in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Soar.
EbbwJunction1
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The River Soar rises near the small village and civil parish of Wibtoft in north-eastern Warwickshire.
Wibtoft is an originally Danish name; as with many settlements toward the eastern side of England. Those Danes got to some -- to non-scholars -- surprising places: there are in the Wirral peninsula, some settlements with the characteristically Danish "-by" ending: such as Greasby and its neighbour Frankby.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thingwall in the Wirral Peninsula was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.
A bit of a preoccupation of mine, here -- the name Basset(t). Blame late relatives of mine, who dedicated much of their lives to basset hounds and the keeping / breeding / rescuing thereof. Thingwall has a pub called the Bassett Hound. The word "Bassett" occurs in many English place-names: no direct canine associations -- it's from the Norman family name, and post-Conquest doings therewith. Most settlements whose names involve "Bassett", would seem to be in the more southerly parts of England; an exception is Thorpe Bassett -- North Yorkshire, near Malton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bugthorpe, just over the border of the East Riding of Yorkshire, was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bishop's Itchington in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.
Five miles or so generally north from Bishop's Itchington, is Long Itchington; both take their name from the River Itchen (not to be confused with the much better-known one of that name, in Hampshire), an overall south-to-north-flowing tributary of the River Leam.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Middleton-on-Sea in West Sussex also has a village green complete with a pond.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Durleighmarsh in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Rother.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Exwick in Devon also lies on the line of the River Exe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beccles in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Benet.
johnnychips
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In 1798, The Plough in Burnham Thorpe was renamed The Lord Nelson. Another pub that was renamed was The Griffin in Broadbottom to The Harewood Arms in the 90s in an attempt to go upmarket.