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Xenophon PCDGS
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Stoke-on-Trent also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.
Springs Branch
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As may be expected from its industrial heritage, Stoke-on-Trent has several pottery museums.
Another significant collection of ceramics is held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.
Another significant collection of ceramics is held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Corwen in Denbighshire has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
I made the following response about Corwen, about half a year ago -- using it again is irresistible, though; thanks to the coincidence that Montacute has just come up on the Closed Stations Journey Quiz. The philosopher, critic, novelist and poet John Cowper Powys lived in Corwen between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s; much of his youth was spent in Montacute, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lewes in East Sussex was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Cluniac priory.
In the town of Lewes is the Railway Land Nature Reserve -- a woodland and marsh area, through which passes the Winterbourne stream, thus titled because it flows in most winters and dries up in the summer. A phenomenon and accompanying name, found frequently in southern England -- Winterborne Whitechurch in Dorset (south-west of Blandford Forum) is so named because it lies on one.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fifehead Neville in Dorset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Pimperne.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dalham in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Kennett.
DerekC
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Dalham has an octagonal smock mill. There is a similar mill, but hexagonal, at Lacey Green in Buckinghamshire
Xenophon PCDGS
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Middlewich in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Middlewich is the meeting-point of three rivers in the River Weaver / Mersey / Manchester Ship Canal complex of waterways: the Rivers Dane, Wheelock, and intriguingly-named Croco -- the imagination conjures up dangerous reptiles inhabiting it ... The Croco is a short river which rises near Congleton and flows eastward, close by Holmes Chapel, Cheshire East; to join with its fellows at Middlewich.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Crosby in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.
There is in Crosby, the art installation called Another Place; by the sculptor Antony Gormley, probably most famous for the Angel of the North. Mr. Gormley's schooldays were at the Catholic boarding school at Ampleforth, North Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beadlow in Bedfordshire is also a settlement chosen in which to establish a Benedictine priory.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Black Notley in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
The Notley part of the name -- as with neighbouring White Notley --comes from the Saxon Hnutlea, meaning "nut wood". Nutwood is of course the village which is home to the childrens'-comic character Rupert Bear. Rupert's creator, Mary Tourtel, lived in Canterbury, Kent: where there was until recently, a Rupert Bear Museum, about all things to do with this long-running comic strip. (Trivia item -- Rupert was initially depicted in said strip, as a brown bear; but to save on printing costs, was soon altered to white, and remained so.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winchester also lies on the route of the historical pilgrimage route known as The Pilgrims Way.
Winchester gives its name, "in a sort of way", to a suburb of Paris: this arising from John of Pontoise, Bishop of Winchester, having built a manor there at the end of the 13th century. The name here has been "Frenchified" almost out of recognition, to Bicetre -- when in Paris way back, that name came to my notice; the English town which it suggested to me, was Bicester. I would absolutely not have thought of Winchester; but after all, we and the French have been butchering each other's languages for many hundreds of years. There is a similar, though less "mangled" situation, involving the seaside resort, in the departement of Somme, called alternatively Cayeux-sur-Mer; or Cayeux plus the name of Brighton, not all that far away on the other side of the Channel. More often than not, there occurs the local mis-spelling, "Cayeux-Brigthon".
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kimmeridge in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra.
DerekC
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The Kimmeridge Oil Shale is well known to geologists and extends under parts of the Weald, where extraction of gas by "fracking" has been contemplated. Gas was extracted from the shale by heating and used to light the streets of Wareham as long ago as 1848.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Maiden Newton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Frome.
There is preserved at Maiden Newton, in working order, one of Britain's oldest fire engines. Similar devices of that antiquity -- also ones of more recent date -- are in the care of the Norfolk Fire Museum at Coltishall, Norfolk -- a little way north of Norwich. (This collection is under something of a condition of crisis at present, needing urgently to find new premises.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Buxton with Lamas in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bugthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Acklam.