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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winterbourne Dauntsey in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Bourne.

 

[johnnychips]

The Monarch’s Way long distance footpath runs through the village. It starts at Worcester and terminates at Shoreham. That is a heck of a walk - 625 miles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pulborough in West Sussex also holds a Duck Race.

 

[johnnychips]

Whereas Pulborough holds a Duck Race, Braithwell in South Yorkshire holds an annual Wheelbarrow Race, which is rather more strenuous for the participants.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luffincott in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St James (which in this case unfortunately now redundant)

 

[Calthrop]

Similar-sounding, and name-wise quite closely analagous, is North Luffenham, Rutland (and the same presumably goes for neighbouring South Luffenham). In earlier versions of our language, the Devon settlement's name means "the 'cot' [cottage or small settlement] of Luhha's people"; that of the Rutland one, "the homestead / village of Luffa".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bergh Apton in Norfolk is another settlement with an Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

 

[Calthrop]

Bergh Apton lies at any rate close to the River Chet (a tributary of the Yare). Chedgrave, Norfolk, is situated on the Chet, a few miles downstream.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seething in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Loddon.

 

[Calthrop]

Armagh, Northern Ireland, also has an observatory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kinsale in County Cork also has a sailing school.

 

[Calthrop]

Kinsale in County Cork also has a sailing school.

Those who graduate from same, may boast that they "kin sail" -- ha ha ...

Kinsale was to all intents and purposes the nearest settlement on land -- only a very few miles removed -- to the point where the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on May 7th 1915. She had been launched in 1906; built by John Brown & Co. of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire was also on the line of the Roman Antonine Wall.

 

[Calthrop]

Bath, Somerset, is also twinned with a settlement in Japan. Kirkintilloch's "twin" is Yoichi; Bath's is Beppu.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swainswick in Somerset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bath Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Swainswick has a particular association with a long-ago ?historical ?mythical figure in the annals of nearby Bath: ?King / ?Prince Bladud, who became afflicted with leprosy and in consequence of that, became a lowly swineherd in the vicinity of Swainswick. He was (quasi-?) miraculously cured of his condition -- with Bath's hot springs maybe playing a role in that -- and was restored to greatness. Another and very different Bath historical personage (both, I gather, commemorated by their name being borne by one of the city's fleet of open-topped tourist buses) was Swansea-born Richard "Beau" Nash: eighteenth-century dandy, leader of fashion, and Master of Ceremonies at Bath.

 

[Springs Branch]

Swansea was once Britain's main centre for refining copper metal.

Another, smaller copper production enterprise was in the West Midlands at the James Bridge Copper Works in Walsall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atherstone in Warwickshire also has historical connections to the trade of leatherworking.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that Atherstone has strong naval connections -- three Royal Navy ships in succession, have been named HMS Atherstone. It seems rather agreeably nuts, that this should apply to a town which is probably one of the furthest spots from the sea, in Great Britain. Along similar lines: Birmingham, G.B.'s furthest-inland big city, has a (very fine) Sea Life Centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[Calthrop]

The celebrated cook Delia Smith has also attained prominence in relatively recent times, as a majority shareholder in, and "booster" of, Norwich City football team. She was born in Woking, Surrey.

 

[341o2]

Woking features in H G Wells' The War of the Worlds, a statue of one of the Martian invaders has been erected, also one of Wells himself. Wells lived in Woking for 18 months, he was born at Bromley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackwall is another London area that was once under the jurisdiction of the Poplar Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Blackwall Tunnel goes under the Thames from Blackwall to Greenwich.

 

[D6130]

Dartmouth in Devon also has a Royal Naval College.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley-on-Thames also hosts a major regatta.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cambridge also has a riverside pub named The Anchor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Great.

 

[Calthrop]

Sawbridgeworth lies on the River Stort; which rises near Langley, Essex -- about a dozen miles to the north.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Ferry in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicatd to St John the Evangelist