Xenophon PCDGS
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Newnham Bridge in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Rea.
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EbbwJunction1
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Newnham Bridge is situated at the junction of the A443 and the A456 roads. The eastern terminus of the latter is in the centre of Birmingham; the passes through the village of Clows Top, Worcestershire, on the way there.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abberley in Worcestershire also lies on the route of the B4202 road.
EbbwJunction1
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Abberley Clock Tower is a prominent distinctive clock tower in Abberley, Worcestershire. It was built by James Piers St Aubyn around 1883 for Abberley Hall, and is now part of Abberley Hall School. It is a Grade II* listed building and is claimed to be visible from six counties. The following year, James St Aubyn designed a Mission Church in the village of Ashton, West Cornwall, which was dedicated by the Bishop of Truro in 1884.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wendron in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Kerrier.
EbbwJunction1
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Wendron Cricket Club play in the Cornwall Cricket League Division 3 West. Their home ground isn't in the village of Wendron, being in the village of Carnkie.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tuckingmill in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Redruth Poor Law Union.
Probably the person of greatest renown associated with Tuckingmill: is the inventor William Bickford (1774 -- 1834) -- his most prominent and acclaimed invention, the safety fuse for use in mining. Bickford was an "incomer" into Cornwall; born at Ashburton, in the neighbouring -- and rival, non-Celtic -- county of Devon: he moved in adulthood to Cornwall, to work in the mining industry -- ultimately residing in Tuckingmill.
EbbwJunction1
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Ashburton is one of a few to still annually appoint a Portreeve, a position also known as a 'Port Warden'. Other places to do so are Laugharne, Beccles, Callington (where the name is given to the Council Chairman), Cheevel and Yeovil.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cefn-coed-y-cymmer in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough also lies on the line of the River Taf.
EbbwJunction1
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Cefn (or Cefn Coed) viaduct is the third largest in Wales and is a Grade II* listed building. It was designed by Alexander Sutherland in conjunction with Henry Conybeare and partly built by Thomas Savin and John Ward. Henry Conybeare is known for many railway projects, but whilst he was working on these, he continued to promote Gothic architecture. He was involved in plans for three churches and published a book on church design. The first of the three churches, and the only one that exists today, was St Mary's Church, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire. This was designed in 1866 at the request of the incumbent, his brother Charles Ranken Conybeare. Its design was influenced by the thirteenth-century Gothic Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
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The construction of the M3 through Twyford Down met with severe opposition as did the A34 Newbury bypass
Pushing the envelope a bit -- Newbury, Berkshire: has a namesake town in the USA, located on the border of the states of New Hampshire, and Vermont. Further north, also on the border between those two states -- nearly in Canada -- is the town of Colebrook; which nearly matches up to Colebrooke -- an estate and river near the town of Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh.
DerekC
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Colebrooke Park near Brookeborough was the first house featured in Series 4 of the Channel 4 TV programme Country House Rescue. The first house in the first series was Cothay Manor at Stawley in Somerset.
EbbwJunction1
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Cley Windmill was used as a backdrop of the 1949 film Conspirator, starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. Another filming location was the Aldwych underground station in Holborn, London.
Springs Branch
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The writer Charles Dickens lived in Doughty St, Holborn between 1837 and 1839.
From 1856 to his death in 1870 Dickens lived in Higham, Kent.
From 1856 to his death in 1870 Dickens lived in Higham, Kent.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Strood in Kent was also once served by the Thames and Medway Canal.
EbbwJunction1
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The local non league football club is Rochester United FC, formerly known as Bly Spartans FC. They play their home games at the Rochester United Sports Ground, Strood, and are in the Southern Counties East League Division One (formerly the Kent League) at level nine of the English Football League system. Another club in the same league is Forest Hill Park FC, who play at the Ladywell Arena, Catford, London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chorley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Laurence.
Chorley has a speciality in the realm of baking: the Chorley cake -- rather like an Eccles cake, but thinner, and made with a different kind of pastry. (A Chorley Cake Street Fair is held in the town every October.) There obtains a little way to the north-east -- around Blackburn / Padiham [chosen at random] / Burnley / Colne -- yet another variation on this theme: "sad cake" -- basically comes in larger units, and can be square as well as round.
Xenophon PCDGS
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A bit of an aside, but in my very much younger days, I was there at Perseverance Mills in Padiham supervising the installation of the water-jet looms that wove parachute cloth for the US military use.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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If you ever go into the indoor market at Leigh, you will find a version of Chorley cakes that is sold as "Singing Lillies".
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Chipping in Lancashire also has historical connections to cotton spinning.
Springs Branch
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The Sun Inn in Chipping* is said to be haunted by a ghost (Lizzie Dean, a scullery maid who ended her own life in the pub's attic).
Another spooky pub - this one said to be haunted by a selection of five or more spirits
including Florrie, whose body was thrown into the pub’s well after her husband murdered her and her lover - is The Red Lion at Avebury, Wilts.
* One of my favourite villages in a favourite part of the country - the Ribble Valley.
Another spooky pub - this one said to be haunted by a selection of five or more spirits
including Florrie, whose body was thrown into the pub’s well after her husband murdered her and her lover - is The Red Lion at Avebury, Wilts.* One of my favourite villages in a favourite part of the country - the Ribble Valley.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Fritham in Hampshire also has a Bronze Age bowl barrow within its environs.
EbbwJunction1
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The Ham Class inshore Minesweeper HMS Fritham, launched in 1953, was named after the village. She was one of 93 ships in this class, all of whose names were chosen from villages ending in -ham. HMS Elsenham was another, being named after Elsenham in Essex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wicken Bonhunt in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Uttlesford.
What initially brought Padiham to my notice; is that there's a participant on these Forums, whose local "patch" that is: he has a great interest in the one-time L & YR's now closed loop line between Blackburn and Rose Grove / Burnley via Padiham, and has made a number of posts about it.
One thinks of the similarly -- maybe coincidentally -- named, "baked goods" speciality from the North-East: "Singing Hinnies" (these not mincemeat / dried fruit encased in pastry; but a kind of scone or bannock, actually incorporating dried fruit).