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Beamish in County Durham also has a working museum.
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Beamish; and Arley (Warwickshire) -- west of Nuneaton -- occur; other than as place-names; in nonsense poems by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear respectively.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ottringham in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.
Otterhampton, Somerset -- near Bridgwater -- has a name with some similarity to that of the above-bolded settlement. It would seem likeliest, that neither name is to do with the animal Lutra lutra: that of the Somerset settlement has rival theories re derivation -- in any case not about cute aquatic mustelids; Wiki gives no explanation for the name of the Yorkshire one.
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Brockenhurst New Forest does mean Badger's Wood and has the forest's oldest church dating back to Saxon times
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Ludlow in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Laurence.
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Ludlow has a fair which is the subject of a song (The Lads in their Hundreds come to Ludlow Fair, words by A E Hausman set to music by George Butterworth) as does Scarborough, a folk song with music attributed to Mark Anderson
Scarborough's name is shared by the chief town of the West Indian island of Tobago. With Trinidad and Tobago being one and the same nation: Trinidad has a settlement called Waterloo. Great Britain has a considerable number of Waterloo's : I'm going for Waterloo, Perth & Kinross -- some miles north of Perth.
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Birnam in Perth and Kinross also lies on the route of the B867 road.
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Elgin is another settlement in Moray to have been granted the status of a Royal Burgh.
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Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.
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Broadclough in Lancashire also lies on the route of a turnpike road that was authorised by the parliamentary passing of the Turnpike Trust Act in 1755.
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The last trig point pillar to be maintained by the Ordnance Survey for its original triangulation purpose (until 1979) is located at Brex Height, just outside Broadclough.
The first of more than 11,000 trig points used for the re-triangulation of Britain was installed in 1936 at the Northamptonshire village of Cold Ashby.
The first of more than 11,000 trig points used for the re-triangulation of Britain was installed in 1936 at the Northamptonshire village of Cold Ashby.
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The LMR introduced electric multiple units on the line through Chelford in 1960.
In the same year, the ScR started operating EMUs on their new North Clyde electrification scheme, one of the termini being Helensburgh Central.
In the same year, the ScR started operating EMUs on their new North Clyde electrification scheme, one of the termini being Helensburgh Central.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I have a feeling that this posting was intended to be on the Station Association Quiz as the same contributor cannot post successive postings, as has occurred in this case..
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This is the posting from where this quiz should be continued.
Cold Ashby is reckoned the highest village in Northamptonshire, at 656 feet above sea level -- admittedly not the most exciting of distinctions ! Lincolnshire is another county in the same very general patch of England -- not characterised by impressive highlands -- indeed, sharing an (extremely short) border with Northants. Lincolnshire's highest village is considered to be Normanby le Wold, near Market Rasen: about 550 feet above sea level.
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Apologies, I did originally post in the wrong quiz. I thought I'd deleted it, but RUK software obviously thought differently.
Garstang in Lancashire was also recorded in the Domesday Book.
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The town of Garstang is served by the Anglican Church of St Thomas. It contains a three-light east window with a stained-glass image of Saint Thomas, designed by Carl Almquist of the Lancaster-based firm Shrigley & Hunt. Some other works by him can be found at the Parish Church at the village of Betws Bledrws, between Lampeter and Llangybi, Ceredigion.
!). Another settlement in Wales which has undergone a name change, is Pembroke Dock: before being developed, it was a small fishing village called Paterchurch.EbbwJunction1
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The Cleddau Bridge links Pembroke Dock on the south side of the river with Neyland on the north side of the river.
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Neyland in Pembroke could very easily be confused with Nayland just in Suffolk.
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Dedham in Essex also lies on the line of the River Stour.
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Sir Alfred Munnings, famous and very successful artist specialising in portraits of horses, lived for forty years at Dedham, but was born at Mendham, also just in Suffolk but at the other end!
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Haddiscoe in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Waveney.
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A little off-course for its presumed target in the London area, a V-1 Flying Bomb landed in Haddiscoe during World War 2.
The first German V-1 to impact British soil fell on 13 June 1944 at Swanscombe, Kent.
The first German V-1 to impact British soil fell on 13 June 1944 at Swanscombe, Kent.