Xenophon PCDGS
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Ballyclare in County Antrim also lies on the line of the Six Mile Water.
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DerekC
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There is another Clogh in County Kilkenny.
Around Clogh (Co. Kilkenny) are some of Ireland's rather few and meagre coal deposits -- some coal mining continued in the area until the 1960s. Ireland's (very relatively) "biggest and best" coal-mining venue was in the region of Arigna, Co. Leitrim.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shancurry in County Leitrim also lies on the line of the River Feorish.
Close to Shancurry is the village of Leitrim; which is not the county town of Co. Leitrim -- that honour goes to Carrick-on-Shannon. Similarly, Co. Louth's county town is not the small settlement of Louth -- county town is Dundalk.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Madderty in Perth and Kinross was also a settlement chosen in which to build an Abbey for the Order of the Augustinian Canons Regular.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Malling in Kent also has an Anglican theological college.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Faldingworth in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Lawress Wapentake.
My italics -- a just-one-letter typo, could have been embarrassing here
...Faldingworth has a pub called the Coach and Horses; so does Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wychnor in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Burton-upon-Trent Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Botus Fleming in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Germans Poor Law Union.
Springs Branch
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Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire also attracts a community of artists.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Luddendenfoot in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.
Railway connection; but I feel, "railways as part of social fabric", rather than "railway-nerdery". Branwell, the rather ne'er-do-well-ish brother of the Bronte sisters, was employed as "clerk in charge" at Luddendenfoot railway station, 1841 -- 42. Previously, he had worked as a tutor to the family of Robert Postlethwaite in Broughton-in-Furness, now in Cumbria.
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Springs Branch
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Broughton-in-Furness was once a centre for making oak swill baskets (a strong, traditional Lakeland receptacle woven from strips of oak and hazel - widely used historically in local households and farms, and in mining and shipping industries)
Oak swill baskets are still made today, including by Mr Owen Jones, operator of the last remaining "swill shop" located in the Cumbrian village of High Nibthwaite.
Oak swill baskets are still made today, including by Mr Owen Jones, operator of the last remaining "swill shop" located in the Cumbrian village of High Nibthwaite.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Finsthwaite in Cumbria is also a settlement where a bobbin mill was established.
There's a fine Cumbrian name
...Lurgan, Co. Armagh, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter.
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Lurgan was targeted by the IRA as was Omagh
Lurgan was targeted by the IRA as was Omagh
DerekC
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Omagh is twinned with L'Haye des Roses, Val de Marne and also with East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
Xenophon PCDGS
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Altrincham also has an ice rink.
Cheating a little perhaps: Altrincham is closely associated with, often "named in the same breath as", neighbouring Bowdon, in which parish I believe it lies. Alison Uttley (1884 -- 1976), prolific author of, chiefly, children's fiction (her best-known character probably, Little Grey Rabbit): lived in Bowdon in the 1920s and '30s; she was however born in Cromford, Derbyshire, and had a rural childhood close to there -- which experience reckoned to have shaped the love of the northerly-English countryside which is fondly expressed in her writing.
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Yes, I did think about making a comment about "Jones The Basket", based in deepest Cumberland!There's a fine Cumbrian name
The Cromford Mill and Cromford village are part of the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another industrial-revolution settlement which is also a UNESCO World Heritage site is New Lanark in South Lanarkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bothwell in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.
Not immensely far from Bothwell is Darnley, a district of south-west Glasgow. During the alarmingly eventful life of Mary, Queen of Scots -- she had as husbands (the marriages in quite quick succession, and both essentially traumatic): Lord Darnley; and the Earl of Bothwell.
To an ancient Roman, they'd likely all be aboriginal barbarians anyway
...(My last settlement still, as above, Darnley.)
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The M77 motorway passes by Darnley (exit at Junction 3 if you want to go there).
The M77 begins at a junction with the M8 in Glasgow and runs out of stream as a true motorway (becoming the A77 dual carriageway) at the East Ayrshire village of Fenwick.
The M77 begins at a junction with the M8 in Glasgow and runs out of stream as a true motorway (becoming the A77 dual carriageway) at the East Ayrshire village of Fenwick.