Taunton is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Calvados. Taunton's "twin" is Lisieux; Ottery St. Mary's is Pont l'Eveque, of cheese fame -- while O. St. M. is, I believe, in dairy-farming country, I'm not aware of its being particularly in the cheese pantheon.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Castleton in Derbyshire also had a medieval-period leper hospital
Oak Apple Day -- May 29th, when the restoration of the monarchy with King Charles II is commemorated -- is Castleton Garland Day: when "the Garland King is paraded around the streets, wearing an extremely large garland of flowers, followed by local girls dressed in white with flowers". There are also annual rites celebrating May 29th at Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire (near Bicester).
johnnychips
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Trowbridge also has a Greyhound pub.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Seend in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Melksham Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Jarrow in Tyneside also has a church that is dedicated to St Bede.
DerekC
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Jarrow will be forever associated with the Jarrow March against unemployment, carried out in October 1936. It took four weeks to get to London. By the end of the first week the two hundred marchers had reached Ripon in North Yorkshire where they were welcomed by the Bishop.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Downpatrick in County Down also has a ruined Cistercian monastery within its environs.
Springs Branch
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Downpatrick is the county town of County Down.
The county town of County Fermanagh is Enniskillen.
The county town of County Fermanagh is Enniskillen.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carrickfergus in County Antrim is another settlement that was affected by the subsequent actions that followed on from the Plantation of Ulster.
The poet Louis MacNeice spent his early years -- World War I era and shortly before -- in Carrickfergus (there's a poignantly atmospheric poem of his, re his memories of that place and time). His schooldays were at the quite eminent public school at Sherborne, Dorset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yeovilton in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Yeo.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Worcester also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.
Prince Arthur, Henry VIII's older brother -- who would have been king instead of Henry, had he (Arthur) not died at the age of fifteen -- is buried in Worcester Cathedral. Katherine of Aragon, briefly Arthur's wife and subsequently Henry's first thereof, is buried in Peterborough Cathedral.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Crowland in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Peterborough Poor Law Union.
It would seem that, with settlements whose names look as though they might be associated with birds of the corvid kind: they in fact rarely are. In the "old tongue", respectively: the "crow" in Crowland refers to a bend in the river in the vicinity; and that in Crowborough (East Sussex) is thought likely to be associated with a word meaning "of golden-yellow colour"; -- a reference maybe, to the abundance of gorse in the surrounding countryside.
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DerekC
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In World War II Crowborough was the location of the Aspidistra 600kW medium wave transmitter used for propaganda broadcasts to Germany and disruption of German night fighter controller communications. It was said to be the most powerful transmitter in the world at the time, although later in the war it lost the title to the OSE5 long wave transmitter at Ottringham, East Riding, which was rated at 800kW and used for similar purposes.
Xenophon PCDGS
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York also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.
Springs Branch
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Another historic city with a congested centre which has necessitated provision of park and ride bus services from six different parking sites is Norwich.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wormleighton in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Kington.
In times past, the Spencer family (that of, much later, Princess Diana) were lords of the manor of Wormleighton. Sir John Spencer, around the year 1500, callously evicted many villagers to "put the land down to sheep"; from the great profits of which, he founded the family's -- now celebrated -- stately home of Althorp: near Great Brington, Northants. -- a little way north-west of Northampton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Macmillan Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Otterford in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.
Otterford lies in the Somerset district of Taunton Deane. The local folk song Richard of Taunton Deane tells of a lad's unrequited love of a lass. An Irish song, a counterpart in that mournful theme: is The Streams of Bunclody; that settlement, lying near the north-westernmost point of County Wexford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Baltinglass in County Wicklow also lies on the line of the River Slaney.
Events connected with Ireland's 1798 rebellion against British rule took place in Baltinglass, as in many other places in the south-east of Ireland. There is a statue in Baltinglass town centre, of a 1798 participant. Available information on the Net would seem to suffer from some degree of uncertainty as to whether the person thus honoured and commemorated, is the rebel leader Michael Dwyer, who came from these parts; or his comrade-in-arms Samuel McAllister, who deserted from the Antrim militia to take part in the uprising.