Xenophon PCDGS
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Wellow in Somerset also has a packhorse bridge within its environs.
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EbbwJunction1
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A little further west of the bridge is the Neolithic chambered tomb known as Stoney Littleton Long Barrow (also known as Bath Tumulus and the Wellow Tumulus). The site was excavated by Revd John Skinner in 1816 - 1817 who gained the entry through a hole originally made about 1760; the excavation revealed the bones (some burned) of several individuals. The Revd John Skinner (1772–1839) was a parish vicar and amateur antiquarian and archaeologist operating mainly in the area of Bath and the villages of northern Somerset in the early nineteenth century. He became vicar of Camerton, Somerset in 1800, and retained the living until his death in 1839.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Foxcote in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Wellow.
England has more than one Foxcote, or close variations thereon. Another is in Buckinghamshire, just north of Buckingham: most often spelt Foscott, sometimes "Foxcote" -- which latter I will latch onto: with the hamlet's being close by, and best-known for, Foxcote (officially spelt thus) Reservoir and Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest: the Reservoir thereof, being a site of importance for wintering wildfowl, especially Bewick's Swans.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bledington in Gloucestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.
The King's Head Inn in Bledington was named as one of the 2018 Good Pub Guide's "ten best inns in Britain". Said Guide also mentions favourably, another King's Head Inn: that at Newton Under Roseberry, Borough of Redcar and Cleveland (seems that we can't get away from that particular patch of N-E England !).
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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Hoar Cross in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Swarbourne.
Xenophon PCDGS
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York also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.
York has strong links with -- including continuing affection toward -- King Richard III (evil sadistic deformed monster, "parfit gentil knyght", or anything in between, depending on one's "take" on him). Richard of course came to grief at the Battle of Bosworth, 1485: not in fact cheek-by-jowl with Market Bosworth, which is just the nearest settlement of any magnitude. Closer to the battlefield, is the village of Dadlington, Leicestershire -- the battle has in the past, been known as that of "Dadlington Field".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Congerstone in Leicestershire also has the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal passing through its environs.
Congerstone's name, we learn, is from the Old English cyning-tun = "farm / settlement of a king" (alas, nothing to do with eels 
). One explanation of derivation of name of Kennington (London Borough of Lambeth), is "as above" (there are rival ones).
). One explanation of derivation of name of Kennington (London Borough of Lambeth), is "as above" (there are rival ones).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edgbaston (Birmingham/Warwickshire) also has a cricket ground that hosts Test Matches.
The extremely prolific -- mostly, but not entirely, fiction -- author Barbara Cartland (1901 -- 2000) was born in Edgbaston. She was -- perhaps improbably -- a keen aviation and car-racing buff: spent much time at the Brooklands aerodrome and motor-racing circuit near Weybridge, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eashing in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.
Eashing -- now just a hamlet -- was over a millennium ago, a place of considerably greater importance: in Anglo-Saxon times, it ranked as a "burh", and features as such in the Burghal Hidage of Alfred the Great. The same applies to the village of Burpham, West Sussex (near Arundel).
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Horsham in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.
johnnychips
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Eric Thompson, the British narrator of The Magic Roundabout, went to school in Horsham. Swindon has its own ‘Magic Roundabout’, and is shown as such on road signs.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liverpool also has a Polish community.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Benwell in Tyne and Wear was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poor Law Union.
Benwell's name, first found on record approx. a thousand years ago; as Bynnewalle: from the Old English for "inside the Wall": from the settlement's position, north of the River Tyne and south of Hadrian's Wall. Also with a name associated with Hadrian's defensive feat, is Heddon-on-the-Wall about ten miles to the west.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burnley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
The Catholic priest Robert Nutter (who showed up in this game a year or two ago), executed in 1600 for his presence and activities in England -- he has subsequently been beatified -- was born in Burnley. His last spell in this country, most of it spent in prison, began with his landing at Gravesend, Kent, in 1585. (In the course of questing via the forums' "Search" facility, for the previous Settlement Association reference: entering the key-word "Nutter" opened up a potential 36 pages' worth of posts. It would seem that lots of people consider lots of other people, to be of unsound mind 
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D6130
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Gravesend is - or perhaps was - linked by ferry with Tilbury in Essex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Inverkip in the Inverclyde region also once had an oil-fired power station.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tain in the county of Ross was also a medieval pilgrimage settlement.