Xenophon PCDGS
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Timberscombe in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Petrock.
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DerekC
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In Timberscombe Parish is the site of the lost village of Clicket, abandoned in the late 19th Century. Exton in Hampshire is the site of the lost village of Lomer, abandoned about four hundred years earlier.
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Exton's church had various restoration work done on it in the 1890s, some involving the artist / craftsman / architect Charles Sydney Spooner (1862 -- 1938): who handled matters there, in the areas of glass, furniture, and wall paintings. (We of course know of other Charles Spooners, coeval to some extent with this gentleman; but the "arena" in which they did their stuff, is off-limits for this game.) Charles Sydney Spooner did during his long life, much and greatly varied work in his spheres of expertise; including the war memorial at Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Monks Eleigh in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Brett.
If in doubt, pubs ! (@Xenophon PCDGS: I try where possible to work here, to a "division of labour": you churches, me pubs !) Erdington in Birmingham's north-eastern suburbs, also has a Swan Inn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Et tu, Brute....
Ranskill in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.
Ranskill in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.
neque ecclesiae nec tavernae --
The local newspaper of the above-bolded area is named the STAR -- acronym of the neighbouring villages of Scrooby, Torworth And Ranskill: which I find splendidly neat. Another favourite local-paper name of mine, is the Kidderminster Shuttle: in tribute to the town's having long been a carpet-weaving centre.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sale in the Trafford area also has an athletics team with the title of "Harriers"
There have long been those of a somewhat anarchistic turn of mind, who consider that the commuters-working-in-offices scene, is basically futile and a waste of life. Little "tags" and epigrams to that effect: re the Manchester region, the venerable one about two M/C "dormitory areas", not very far apart -- the happily rhyming Sale, and Hale -- and the one-time joint railway undertakings by which the "drones" commuted:
"They sleep by night in Hale and Sale; in Manchester by day / They travel by the CLC, and MSJ&A."
Further south in England -- something of a proverbial dormitory suburb, has been Stanmore, London Borough of Harrow -- this likely having resonances with its being an Underground terminus, now of the Jubilee Line; formerly, "Stanmore Line" was a title in vogue. Adaptation of a French epigram about the poor commuter's life being brought to naught between job, sleep, and rail-commuting: summarised as "bore, snore, and Stanmore".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bruton in Somerset is another settlement that was chosen to establish a priory of the Augustinian Canons.
Also named / associated re a sad ballad concerning an unacceptable, and finally fatal, love affair between individuals of different status; is the island of Ulva, Argyll and Bute (off the west coast of Mull). I think Ulva just counts as a settlement: it has a very small population. (The ballads are respectively, Bruton Town; and Lord Ullin's Daughter.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pierowall in Orkney also has historical connections to kelp harvesting.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Methlick in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Ythan.
I learn that Methlick has -- belonging to the Aberdeenshire Cricket Association -- a cricket team (I didn't even know cricket was popular in Scotland; but sports are not my thing). This outfit, the Methlick Cricket Club (MCC) for short, play at Lairds cricket ground in the village: a pleasing and no doubt deliberate parallel with a better-known MCC, whose cricket is played at Lords ground, Marylebone, Greater London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackpool in Lancashire also has a thoroughfare named Manchester Square.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Andews in Fife also has a university of great age.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eccleston in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Yarrow.
There is another Eccleston, not hugely far away: Eccleston, Cheshire -- on the River Dee, a little way south of Chester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shocklach in Cheshire West and Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wolston in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.
DerekC
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The Wolstonian Stage is a geological term allocated to an interglacial period from 374,000 to 130,000 years ago, part of the middle Pleistocene. It is (or was) preceded by the Hoxnian Stage, named after Hoxne in Suffolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wickwar in Gloucestershire is another settlement where a Roman coin hoard was discovered.
D6130
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Horndean in Hampshire also had a brewery.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Athlone which is situated on the border area between County Roscommon and County Westmeath also has a technology college.
In the earlier days of radio, the Irish Free State's main broadcasting station was located just east of Athlone -- known formally as "Radio Athlone". In the same era, its chief BBC counterpart was just outside Daventry, Northamptonshire -- chosen for its central location vis-a-vis England and Wales.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stowe Nine Churches was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.