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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Anderston in the Greater Glasgow area is another settlement where a historical weavers society was established.
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Anderston's name came about from its first becoming a weaving settlement, via an initiative in 1725 on the part of a local magnate, James Anderson: known thus at first, as "Anderson Town"; name later contracted to the present "Anderston" (still locally pronounced without the "t"). There is a parallel name-wise and re the name's derivation, with the suburb of West Belfast called Andersonstown (a stronghold of Republican allegiance, which featured much in the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s onward): a couple of hundred years ago, a rural village -- name changed in 1832 from the former Whitesidetown, to Andersonstown; many of the inhabitants at that time, being named Anderson.
 
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Eccleston has a pub called the Original Farmers' Arms. Cowley near Oxford has one called the Original Swan.
 
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Two settlements whose names could be seen as likely associated with the thrush family of birds; are Blackbird Leys (a relatively modern development, name deriving from a farm of that name); and Thrushelton (meaning "Thrush farm / settlement"), Devon -- west of Okehampton.
 
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St. Nicholas's Church, Broadwoodwidger, has "benches with carvings of curious animals". The same is true of the Church of St. John the Baptist at Danbury, Essex (near Chelmsford).
 
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Luddington is only a few miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. "Maybe / conjectural" stuff concerning Shakespeare and his missus (the scholars consider it in both cases, to be local lore rather than for certain): Luddington is said to be where W.S. and Anne Hathaway conducted their courtship; Shottery (very near Stratford, now swallowed up by it building-wise) has, of course, the dwelling said to have been Anne's cottage.
 
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One of Kerry's pubs is called the Kerry Lamb: an allusion to the local Kerry Hill breed of sheep. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, has a pub called The Lamb on the Strand.
 
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Friary (a tiny hamlet which gets a disproportionately huge write-up in Wiki) lies within the parish of Hinton Charterhouse; whose eponymous Carthusian priory (it seems that its lay brothers lived at nearby Friary) was founded by Ela, Countess of Salisbury (1187 -- 1261). The same noble lady also founded (and ultimately became the abbess of) the abbey at Lacock, Wiltshire -- some miles to the north-east, and generally better-known in both religious and secular contexts.
 
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