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Hulcott in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Aylesbury.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Guisborough in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.
D6130
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The island settlement of Lindisfarne - off the coast of Northumberland - also has a ruined priory.
DerekC
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Iona, like Lindisfarne, was a centre for Irish Celtic Christianisation in the sixth and seventh centuries AD, although Iona was established about seventy years earlier. The Irish monk Aidan was sent to Lindisfarne from Iona to convert the Kingdom of Northumbria.
EbbwJunction1
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The most common route from the mainland to Iona is via Oban in Argyll and Bute, where regular ferries connect to Craignure on Mull, from where the scenic road runs 37 miles to Fionnphort.
Close by Fionnphort is the island of Erraid, which is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. A location with a mention in another of Stevenson's adventure novels -- Treasure Island -- is Bristol; from where Squire Trelawney, Jim Hawkins, and friends, set sail for the West Indies.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bedminster was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Poor Law Union.
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One of Bristol's two city farms is located at Bedminster, Swansea also has a city farm, the only one currently open in Wales
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ynys-bydafau lies on the line of the northern section of the Swansea Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Great Snoring in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.
EbbwJunction1
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On 12th April 1836, the Walsingham Poor Law Union was formed, and a new Walsingham Union workhouse was built at Great Snoring to accommodate up to 250 inmates. The aechitect was William Thorold, and he based it on the model cruciform plan designed by Sampson Kempthorne (1809 – 1873) and published by the Poor Law Commissioners in 1835. Sampson Kempthorne was an English architect who specialised in the design of workhouses in amongst other places, Crediton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cowley in Devon also lies on the line of the River Creedy.
EbbwJunction1
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St Antony's Chapel, Cowley was built as a chapel of ease to Bramford Speke by Major Rohde Hawkins between 1867 and 1868. At roughly the same time, he was building Christ Church, Fairwarp, East Sussex, between 1867 and 1871.
Buried together in the churchyard at Fairwarp, are the actors Joan Tetzel and Oscar Homolka; who were married to each other, and who I confess to never having heard of before Googling Fairwarp. Homolka (originally Austrian; specialised in playing Soviet / E. European Communist "baddies" in Cold War-themed spy and other films) died, in 1978, not at Fairwarp but in Tunbridge Wells.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Falmouth in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to King Charles the Martyr.
D6130
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Sheffield in South Yorkshire also has a street named 'The Moor'.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.
DerekC
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Nottingham is, of course, closely associated with the legend of Robin Hood. There are many theories as to who the legendary Robin might have been based on in reality. One of the more plausible identifies him with Robert Deyville of Kilburn, North Yorkshire.
D6130
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Cherhill, near Calne in Wiltshire, also has a white horse carved into the hillside above the village.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Quemerford in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the minor waterway known as the River's Brook.
EbbwJunction1
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Quemerford is a south eastern suburb of Calne, Wiltshire. It lies on the A4 towards Marlborough; the next village to the east is Cherhill.
Xenophon PCDGS
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We had Cherhill on the posting prior to Quemerford.
If I may take another shot at Quemerford: Much Wenlock, Shropshire, also has a Talbot Inn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thetford in Norfolk is another settlement where a Cluniac priory was once established.
The TV series Dad's Army was shot mostly in and around Thetford (there is now a statue of Captain Mainwaring in Thetford town). The 1971 feature film, same name and subject, was however shot in and around Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire. (Both localities would seem rather a far cry from the town on the English Channel coast which, in the Dad's Army fiction, is the setting for the goings-on.)
EbbwJunction1
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My apologies ... note to self - read the last few contributions more closely, especially when you haven't been on the topic for a few days!
Moving on, though: Another location used as a set for the majority of a film was Mapledurham in Oxfordshire, which doubled for the fictional village of Studley Constable in The Eagle Has Landed.
Moving on, though: Another location used as a set for the majority of a film was Mapledurham in Oxfordshire, which doubled for the fictional village of Studley Constable in The Eagle Has Landed.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipsden in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Langtree.
I'm admittedly hard to please; but I reckoned "The Eagle Has Landed", one of the most utterly awful films that I've ever seen. (The book was better.) For me, the one and only good thing about the film, was some briefish clips of Finnish State Railways steam -- standing in for supposed World War II doings in Warsaw.
Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire also has a pub called the William IV.