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Blackheath in London was the site of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, which was centered from Bodmin
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Mottingham in London was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Blackheath.
AviationFR
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Mottingham is where former Defence Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey was born- he died in Alfriston, East Sussex in 2015
AviationFR
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Leeds, West Yorkshire is also twinned with Louisville, KY
(Why, we wonder, should Bushmills; and Louisville, Kentucky; be twinned
?)Leeds; and the local government district of Surrey Heath, centred on Camberley; both include in their respective coats of arms, an "owl" motif (Leeds has three owls; Surrey Heath, an owl and a falcon).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Finchley in North London is another settlement that in past days was a frequent haunt of highwaymen.
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Harry Beck, who devised the familiar diagrammatic London Underground map, lived for much of his life in Finchley.
Beck was born in 1902 in Leyton, East London.
Beck was born in 1902 in Leyton, East London.
EbbwJunction1
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Another famous native of Leyton was John "Jack" Travers Cornwell VC, who was born there on 8th January 1900. Commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell (his naval rank), he is remembered for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland during the First World War, when he was the sole survivor of his gun crew, although seriously injured. His ship, HMS Chester, was ordered to the port of Immingham, where Cornwell was transferred to Grimsby General Hospital, although he was clearly dying. He died shortly before 8:00am on the morning of 2nd June 1916, before his mother could arrive at the hospital. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, and is the third-youngest recipient of the award.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beelsby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Grimsby Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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St Andrew’s, Beesby is a member of the Alford Group of Churches; other members of the Group are St Wilfrid’s, Alford; Holy Trinity, Bilsby; St Helena’s, Willoughby; and St Andrew’s, Hannah.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eadestown in County Kildare also has a rececourse.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Ickenham in the Greater London region also lies on the line of the River Pinn.
AviationFR
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Lyddington in Rutland also has a Grade 1 Listed House
Lyddington has a pub called the Marquess of Exeter; Derby has one called the Exeter Arms. (England's aristocracy are quite often odd, nomenclature / geography-wise -- Marquess-of-Exeter-related stuff is prominent in the general Rutland-and-nearby area.)
AviationFR
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Deeside in North Wales also has a Toyota factory
That's interesting. It is a strange part of the country up there in my opinion, in terms of history at least
That's interesting. It is a strange part of the country up there in my opinion, in terms of history at least
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bishopstown in County Cork also has an orienteering club.
The name of Bishopstown is ascribed by some, to an early-18th-century bishop's building his country residence there: there are rival theories involving earlier origins for the name. The named-somewhat-akin Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, has a more generally accepted origin: concerning the Bishop of Hereford's having a castle built there in 1087, to defend the church and village from incursions by raiders from nearby Wales.
DerekC
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Prior to the great Reform Act of 1832, Bishop's Castle was a "rotten borough" sending two members to Parliament. So was Gatton in Surrey. Gatton had seven registered electors. Bishop's Castle had about two hundred and generally returned a Tory unopposed. Gatton had the distinction of electing in 1831 Viscount Pollington, who lived until 1899 and died as the last surviving person to have been elected an MP by a rotten borough.
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EbbwJunction1
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Gatton is a former village and borough in Surrey, England, and an ancient parish. It survives as a sparsely populated, predominantly rural locality, which includes Gatton Park, which dates from the 17th Century. The property was requisitioned during the Second World War and the estate was then purchased by the current owners, The Royal Alexandra and Albert School. This is an all-through co-educational boarding school which was created in 1949, when The Royal Alexandra School, which was founded in 1758, and The Royal Albert Orphan School, which was founded in 1864 as a national memorial to Prince Albert. The forerunner of the latter was the Orphan Working School, which was founded in 1758 and first met in Hampstead.
mm333
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Hereford is also mentioned in the songs of ‘My Fair Lady’.
AviationFR
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Putta was probably the first Bishop of Hereford, but he is known as the Bishop of Rochester in Kent
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The Rochester Sweeps festival, celebrated on May Day, includes a Jack in the Green ceremony (a Jack in the Green being, in short, a historic custom where a person dresses up as a tree).
Another settlement where a Jack in the Green can be expected to appear in May is Knutsford in Cheshire.
Another settlement where a Jack in the Green can be expected to appear in May is Knutsford in Cheshire.
Knutsford's greatest renown is, of course, its having been the home of the 19th-century novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, who portrayed the town under the name of Cranford. (We had "it and her" in the game, not all that long ago.) There are also two -- neighbours of each other -- real-life Cranfords: villages in Northamptonshire, near Kettering: Cranford St. Andrew (choosing this one at random), and Cranford St. John.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Alsop en le Dale in Derbyshire is another settlement with historical connections to small-scale iron ore mining.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Holdenhurst in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Christchurch.