Unusual festivals: every September, Bridport holds a Hat Festival. Clovelly in North Devon holds annually in late May, a Seaweed Festival which "not only celebrates seaweed as a nutritious food, but also as a versatile product that can be used in arts and crafts".
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Clovelly has been chosen as a scenic location for a number of TV and film productions over the years (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, among others)
Another place with a vertically-challenged cobbled street (Gold Hill) which has appeared many times on the screen ("Hovis. As good today . . . ") is Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Another place with a vertically-challenged cobbled street (Gold Hill) which has appeared many times on the screen ("Hovis. As good today . . . ") is Shaftesbury, Dorset.
EbbwJunction1
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Malmesbury Victoria FC are currently members of the Hellenic League Division One and play at the Flying Monk Ground, Malmesbury. One of their opponents during the current season is Clanfield 85 FC, who play their home games at Radcot Road, Clanfield, Oxfordshire.
There's also another Clanfield -- Clanfield, Hampshire; a little way north of Portsmouth. @EbbwJunction1: I'd never heard of either, before reading your just-above post !
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bulkington in Warwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St James.
EbbwJunction1
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Throughout the medieval period and until the late 18th century, the principal employment in Bulkington had been agriculture. However,
because of the enclosure od the land, ribbon weaving supplemented or replaced agriculture as the main source of income for the majority of Bulkington's population. This cottage industry had spread to Bulkington from the major centres of Coventry and Bedworth, where it had been introduced by the Huguenots in the 18th century. Ribbon production continued in Bulkington into the middle of the 20th century, though through small factory production rather than as a cottage industry; the last factory, in Arden Road, closed in the early 1950s.
because of the enclosure od the land, ribbon weaving supplemented or replaced agriculture as the main source of income for the majority of Bulkington's population. This cottage industry had spread to Bulkington from the major centres of Coventry and Bedworth, where it had been introduced by the Huguenots in the 18th century. Ribbon production continued in Bulkington into the middle of the 20th century, though through small factory production rather than as a cottage industry; the last factory, in Arden Road, closed in the early 1950s.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Baginton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Sowe.
In Baginton is a much-admired and venerable oak tree, some 300 -- 350 years old. There used to be in Carmarthen, an oak tree of great age; associated with it, a prophecy supposedly by the wizard Merlin, to the effect that if and when the tree fell, disaster would befall the town. To guard against this, when the tree died it was dug up; pieces of it are in the town museum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandovery in Carmarthenshire also lies on the line of the River Towy.
Twm Sion Cati (Wales's "Robin Hood" -- more of a definite historical figure, than England's "beneficent robber") has some degree of connection with Llandovery; reputedly lived there for a time. His strongest associations, though -- comparable to Robin and Nottingham / Sherwood -- are with Tregaron, Ceredigion.
johnnychips
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Tregaron has a French twin settlement, Plouvien; as does Norwich, Rouen.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Canterbury in Kent was also targeted by the Luftwaffe Baedeker Raids of 1942.
Canterbury's coat of arms features choughs (the species of crow, rather rare in Britain, with red bill and legs); they are also featured in the coat of arms of the county borough of Flintshire -- whose administrative headquarters is nowadays not Flint, but Mold.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lincoln also has a first-tier Crown Court.
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Barford St Martin in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Nadder.
Commander Rupert Thomas Gould (1890 -- 1948) -- Naval officer, horologist, and author -- spent his last years at Barford St. Martin. Gould had a strong interest in the mysterious and potentially paranormal, writing several books about instances thereof worldwide. He was particularly engaged by the matter of the Loch Ness Monster, devoting much effort to investigation of same. One of the major and better-attested reported sightings of the creature (not by Gould) occurred in 1933, at Foyers (Highland), on the eastern shore of the loch.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Inverfarigaig in the Highland region also lies on the route of the B852 road.
Above Inverfarigaig is the Iron age fort of Dun Deardail. Associated with the Irish legend of Deirdre of the Sorrows (the episodes of it set in Scotland) are the just-mentioned fort; and also Loch Etive, on which lies the village of Connel (Argyll and Bute).
Xenophon PCDGS
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New Holland in Lincolnshire is another settlement that once had a ferry service.
In New Holland is an imposing -- in fact, "listed" -- building which was long (though no more) a pub / hotel, named variously the Yarborough Hotel, and the Lincoln Castle Hotel (sharing that name with one of the paddle-steamers which operated the ferry to Hull). "Yarborough" would seem to be a favourite name for hostelries in north Lincolnshire, but nowhere else -- the name being, of a titled family in those parts. The 2nd Baron Yarborough (1781 -- 1846), however, is commemorated far to the south. He married an I.O.W. heiress and moved to the island, where he founded Cowes's Royal Yacht Squadron. His memorial is a prominent obelisk on Culver Down, near Bembridge.
Xenophon PCDGS
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East Cowes also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Isle of Wight Coastal Path.
The architect John Nash (1752 -- 1835), to whom are owed many of London's prominent buildings: lived for the latter part of his life at East Cowes Castle, East Cowes; and died there. He was born in what is now the London Borough of Lambeth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wandsworth was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.
D6130
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Winchester also has a prison.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Guildford in Surrey also lies on the route of the historic pilgrimage way known as The Pilgrims Way.
johnnychips
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Conisbrough also has a Norman castle whose keep still stands.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheffield also lies on the line of the River Don.
D6130
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Sheffield has a twin city in China (Anshan) as does Solihull in the West Midlands (Changzhou).