Xenophon PCDGS
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Marlesford in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Alde.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Ystrad Mynach in Caerphilly County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Although mynach means "monk" in Welsh; there seems to be no record of religious foundations in the area of the above-bolded settlement -- there are other suggestions for the name's origin. Rather similarly with Nunney in Somerset, near Frome: the name would appear not to have anything to do with "lady religious".
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Chirk in Wrexham County Borough also has a castle that is under the care of the National Trust.
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Bethesda near Bangor is also a former slate mining community.
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Bothwell in South Lanarkshire also has a pub named The Douglas Arms.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lanark in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.
Lanark has an odd annual custom called "Whuppity Scoorie" -- reckoned to have some connection with the approach of spring; it involves, every March 1st, early in the morning: the local kids running around, making noise and scrambling for coins. Tichborne, Hampshire (near Alresford) also observes a March annual custom -- the Tichborne Doles on March 25th, dating back (with interruptions) to the 13th century. Flour is distributed to local people: entitlement is restricted to families in Tichborne, Cheriton, and Lane End.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashwater in Devon is also a settlement with Bronze Age bowl barrows within its environs.
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Folksworth in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Norman Cross.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dersingham in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.
I have rather enjoyed most of J.B. Priestley's novels; but he is prone to the in my opinion annoying and lazy practice, of using British place-names for the surnames of many of his characters. I recall that there features in his Angel Pavement, a commercial firm called Twigg & Dersingham; whereas the hero of his Let The People Sing, is a rather corny and has-been comedian called Timmy Tiverton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hornby in Lancashire also has an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bentham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ewecross Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Porthcawl in the county borough of Bridgend also has a land-based lighthouse.
Porthcawl has a funfair called Coney Beach -- modelled, we are told, on New York's Coney Island. Northern Ireland also has a Coney Island -- a tiny and sedate seaside hamlet, with an adjoining islet bearing the appropriate name: near Ardglass, Co. Down.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilmore Quay in County Wexford is also a coastal resort with a marina.
Kilmore Quay is the place from which boats ply for visitors to the Saltee Islands, a little way offshore: Ireland's largest bird sanctuary, wonderful for seabirds. Another good -- if more modest -- seabird site off the Republic of Ireland, is Lambay Island, off the coast a little way north of Dublin. Lambay Island (privately owned) has a very small permanent population including a working farm. (Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel and in rather similar case, has been established as a valid "settlement" for the purposes of the game; I'm hoping that Lambay may be similarly eligible.)
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Hoping that the island in this posting will also be acceptable...
Inchconnachen Island in Loch Lomond is also home to a colony of wallabies.
Inchconnachen Island in Loch Lomond is also home to a colony of wallabies.
Wallabies are an excellent thing ! A small "tribe" of them lived wild in the Staffordshire Peak District between 1940 (released by a local "landowner and colonial adventurer") and final dying-out in 2009. These marsupials flourished around the hilly area of The Roaches, south-west of Buxton: nearest human settlement probably Meerbrook, Staffordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leek in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Churnet.
William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, often visited Leek in the late 1870s; he exchanged skills and materials with various craftspeople there. For a long while, Morris based himself the movement at Kelmscott on the Thames in Oxfordshire, near Lechlade.
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Pontesbury in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St George
Pontesbury lies on the stream called the Rea Brook; which runs generally west to east, to join the River Severn at Shrewsbury. Some 15 / 20 miles to the south-east, also in Shropshire, is another Rea Brook: the upper reaches of the River Rea, running north to south to join the River Teme. On this Rea Brook, about six miles south-west of Bridgnorth, lies the village of Neenton.