Xenophon PCDGS
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Cambridge also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Great.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Moira in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.
DerekC
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There is a coke fuelled blast furnace, built in 1804 and now a museum, at Moira. The similar Bedlam Furnace, the remains of which still exist at Madeley, Shropshire, is considerably older, having been built in 1756.
EbbwJunction1
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Madeley is situated on the A525 road, which runs from Rhyl to Newcastle-under-Lyme. Another place on the route of the road is the village of Rhewl, between Ruthin and Denbigh in Denbighshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Minera in Wrexham County Borough also lies on the line of the River Clywedog.
Springs Branch
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Charterhouse (also known as Charterhouse-on-Mendip) in Somerset also has historical associations with lead mining.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Motherwell also has a church that is dedicated to St John Bosco.
Motherwell has a namesake town in the Eastern Cape division of South Africa; as has the Cambridgeshire town of Whittlesey -- its S.A. counterpart uses the alternative spelling "Whittlesea" (a viable alternative: that's how the railway station of our British town, spells its name).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Grantham in Lincolnshire is another settlement where Bronze Age artifacts have been unearthed.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fleetwood in Lancashire also has a cross-river ferry.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skegness in Lincolnshire also has a clock tower,
The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- born and brought up in mid-Lincolnshire -- spent as a young man, various holidays at Skegness (before it became a resort for the masses). Later in life he resided at some length in another seaside location of some note: Farringford House at Freshwater, Isle of Wight -- ended up doing so only "part-time", because of the disturbance and nuisance caused to him by numerous holidaymakers' seeking of a glimpse of the great man.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Yar.
Being a bit naughty, perhaps; Yarmouth as above has a namesake settlement -- identically so -- in the US State of Massachusetts; however, it is named not after Yarmouth (I.O.W.), but after Great Yarmouth in Norfolk: a rather tangential connection here, with the general "Pilgrim Fathers" scene.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bungay in Suffolk also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Angles Way.
Well-known and -loved folk songs, prominently featuring a castle, concern that of Bungay; and that of Dromore in Ireland (very different themes and "scenes" -- respectively, "defiance of constituted authority"; and motherhood). There is a complication in that there are four different Dromore Castles, in various parts of Ireland, north and south -- no-one knows which one (if any) the song is about. I'll randomly opt for Dromore, Co. Tyrone -- which is at any rate, one of the two out of the four, which are actual town-or-village-type settlements.
DerekC
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Dromore's local soccer team, Tummery Athletic, play Strathroy Harps from Omagh at home tomorrow in Fermanagh & Western Mercer League Division 1. Kickoff is at 2:30pm. Tummery currently lead Dergview Reserves by one point at the top of the division and tomorrow is the last match of the season so they could do with lots of support!
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Tiroony in County Tyrone also lies on the line of the River Camowen.
Just wait till the Ballyvary Blue Bombers (whom we had some months ago) weigh in... best name for a sports team, that I've ever come across !
There runs close by Tiroony, the Pomeroy Road; which runs, would you believe it, to the rather larger village of Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone.
Springs Branch
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Keswick in Cumbria is also located at latitude 54° 36' N.
A number of prominent literary figures have lived in Keswick; among them, the novelist Hugh Walpole (1884 -- 1941). Born in New Zealand, his family moved to Britain early in his life: spent his schooldays at a variety of schools in England -- not very happy times for him, especially at a particularly horrible school in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Walpole spent the last couple of decades in his life in Keswick; he quickly came very greatly to love the Lake District.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lechlade in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Thames.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Swindon in Wiltshire was also served by the North Wilts Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Elgin in Morayshire was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.