Xenophon PCDGS
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Melrose in the Scottish Borders also hosts a Pipe Band championship.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Moira in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.
The above-bolded settlement -- a relatively new (post-Industrial Revolution) development -- takes its name from Moira, Co. Down (just east of Lurgan): the local magnates of the northern Irish settlement, the Rawdon-Hastings family, basically inaugurated the Leicestershire community as a mining village.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Craiggaunowen in County Clare also has an example of a Bronze Age ringfort in its environs.
Craiggaunowen's 16th-century castle was, after a cycle of successive falling into ruin / restoration: restored in the 1960s by the historian, antiquarian and collector John Hunt; whose collection forms the basis of what is now the Hunt Museum in Limerick.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portumna in County Galway also lies on the line of the River Shannon.
Also located on the periphery between two counties, and provinces, of Ireland: is Urlingford. Immediately east of Portumna (Co. Galway, province Connaught), is Co. Tipperary, province Munster. Immediately west of Urlingford (Co. Kilkenny, province Leinster), is -- again -- Co. Tipperary, province Munster.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Galmoy in County Kilkenny also lies on the line of the River Goul.
The mentioned River Goul is one out of something of a cluster of small rivers -- the others being the Erkina, and the Gully -- which flow with a generally westward tendency, to join the bigger River Nore in the overall locality of Durrow, Co. Laois.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bromsgrove in Worcestershire also has a Kayak and Canoe Club.
Grimsby also has a hospital which is named in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Digbeth in Central Birmingham is another settlement where an early example of a cold-storage facility was established.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Miles Platting in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Tib.
The Greater Manchester conurbation has at least one more settlement / area, which could be mistaken for a person's name: Daisy Hill in Westhoughton. (Incidentally, both M.P. and D.H. have, or have had, rail stations bearing their respective names.)
DerekC
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The burning of Westhoughton Mill in 1812 was one of the first acts in the Luddite disturbances of the early 19th Century. The disturbances ended with the Pentrich Rising of June 1817, following which sixty people were charged with treason. Three of the ringleaders were publicly hanged and beheaded and eleven others transported for life.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winkleigh in Devon also lies on the route of the B3220 road.
Springs Branch
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Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire is also the location of an artisan cider brewery.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Powick in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Teme.
Springs Branch
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Whittingham near Preston, was also the site of a large psychiatric hospital which closed in the late 20th century (both hospitals were also the subject of scandals around patient ill-treatment in the late 1960s)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Arkholme in Lancashire also was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lonsdale.
I can't resist the "thankful villages" theme -- settlements all of whose menfolk who served in World War I, came home alive. Arkholme; and Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire; belong to an even more select company -- "doubly-thankful" villages: no men therefrom lost, in either World War I or II. (There are a total of fourteen doubly-thankful villages in the UK.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Priskilly in Pembrokeshire also lies on the line of the River Cleddau.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Solfach in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dewisland.
The painter Frances Mary Hodgkins (1869 -- 1947) -- born in New Zealand, but spent the majority of her life in Britain and continental Europe -- spent time and painted in various parts of Britain, including Solfach in the late 1930s. (She died in Dorchester, Dorset; but is buried in N.Z.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Has Solfach been duplicated over the last two postings?
In my post 26,187; I meant to put in "bold", Dorchester -- but in error, did so (again) with Solfach. Please can we take this, as accordingly rectifying that post?