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Xenophon PCDGS
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Killester in County Dublin was also once administered by the ancient Barony of Coolock.
Killester grew considerably, from the early 1920s; with planned housing development for World War I ex-servicemen and their families. On the high ground just south of Wallington, London Borough of Sutton: a venture took place with the intention of founding an agricultural settlement, in the same years and for the same "clientele".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Long Preston in North Yorkshire also has an annual traditional May Queen crowning.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stockton Heath in the Warrington area also has a chess club.
D6130
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Great Malvern in Worcestershire is also a 'spa' town.
C.S. Lewis (1898 -- 1963), author and Christian "pundit", spent much of his schooldays at boarding schools in Great Malvern; in later years, he (and his friend J.R.R. Tolkien) did much walking, based on the town. Lewis was born in Belfast.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Dundee was another major manufacturer of linen fabric.
DerekC
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Close to Howick is "Rumbling Kern", a hollow in the cliffs. Rumbling Bridge, Perth & Kinross, is a village named after an unusual double bridge over a gorge. In both cases the rumbling seems to relate to breaking or cascading water.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tullibody in Clackmannanshire also lies on the line of the River Devon.
"Macabre department": Tullibody church has an, apparently famous, stone coffin; it is also recorded to have had an iron coffin case as an attempt to thwart local body-snatchers. Edinburgh also had trouble with the body-snatching business -- most renownedly, in the persons of Messrs. Burke and Hare.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hove in East Sussex also has a floral clock.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Helens in Merseyside also has a Horological Society.
EbbwJunction1
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The Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit, Guildford, commonly known as Guildford Cathedral, was designed by the English architect and designer Sir Edward Maufe RA FRIBA (1882 – 1974) and built between 1936 and 1961. A previous work by him was doubtless completely different, it being a branch of Lloyds Bank at Wren Road, Camberwell, built in 1925.
D6130
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Bradford in West Yorkshire also has a college of art and design.
EbbwJunction1
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The English composer Frederick Theodore Albert Delius CH (1862 – 1934) was born in Bradford to a prosperous mercantile family. He spent much of his later life in Grez in north-central France, where he died on 10th June 1934, aged 72. He had wished to be buried in his own garden, but the French authorities forbade it. His alternative wish, despite his atheism, was to be buried "in some country churchyard in the south of England, where people could place wild flowers". At this time his wife Jelka was too ill to make the journey across the Channel, and Delius was temporarily buried in the local cemetery at Grez. By May 1935, Jelka felt she had enough strength to undertake the crossing to attend a reburial in England. She chose St Peter's Church, Limpsfield, Surrey as the site for the grave, and he was reburied there on 26th May 1935.
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Limpsfield is listed in the Domesday book as is Abbotsbury Dorset
Ralph Wightman, broadcaster and writer on rural themes, described the village of Abbotsbury as "possibly the most interesting in Dorset". He was himself born in the county, in the village -- found by many, rather comically-named -- of Piddletrenthide.
DerekC
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The River Piddle flows through Piddletrenthide from its source just north of the less amusingly named village of Alton Pancras.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipswich in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Pancras
According to the place-name experts, Ipswich's name is not related to the River Gipping, on which the town lies; it is derived from a different source. Also located on the River Gipping -- some seven miles to the north -- is Needham Market.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashbourne in Derbyshire is another settlement where almshouses were built.
The Green Man and Black's Head Royal Hotel in the centre of Ashbourne (often nowadays called just the "Green Man") has been the focus of controversy for some years concerning the "Black's Head" element; with its sign, straddling the street, having had on top of it for a long while, a cartoonish wooden representation of -- well -- a black person's head (removed in recent times). Something of an association of the pub-name variety, with the name "The Black Boy" borne by numerous pubs in England. More often than not, this is a reference to King Charles II: who was often dubbed "the black boy" (a name thought first bestowed on him by his mother, because of his dark eyes, and skin darker than usual among English folk) -- one suspects that this data would cut no ice with some highly-zealous characters. There is a pub with this name --this one reckoned certain to refer to Chas. 2 -- at Knowle, West Midlands (near Solihull).
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Wolverhampton is also a settlement with a fine example of a knot garden.
Dept. of "things so odd-seeming, that they're most probably true", from Wiki -- quoting verbatim -- "the composer Edward Elgar: despite living in Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and might have travelled to home games on his bicycle".