New Ferry has a Wetherspoons pub called the John Masefield; after the poet and novelist of that name, who briefly spent time in the area. (There has been something of a stir locally, with complaints that the portrait of Masefield on the pub's sign, looks a lot like Hitler; in the photograph of Masefield aged 40-ish accompanying the Wiki article about him, one can discern a bit of a resemblance.) Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Highleadon in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Leadon.
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Keddington in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.
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Portlaoise in County Laois also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
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Durham also has a prison.
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Bandon in County Cork is another Plantation Town established by English rule in Ireland.
Bandon; and another settlement in Co. Cork, Skibbereen -- are named in different songs, from the nineteenth century: concerning ongoing struggles / woes Ireland-versus-England ("farming and land-ownership department"): respectively, The Bold Tenant Farmer, and Skibbereen.
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The British and Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords, David Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE was born on 25th February 1941 in Southgate, London. He and his wife Patsy have lived in Skibbereen since 1998 and on 21st June 2022, he announced via Twitter that had obtained Irish citizenship.
Southgate's name is derived from its having been centuries ago, at the southern entrance to the large royal hunting preserve north of London, of Enfield Chase. A -- fairly generous -- remnant of said Chase survives today, as Trent Park in the London Borough of Enfield.
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Winchester also shares its name with a type of rifle.
Association here, concerns an apparent unfortunate prejudice among the self-declared intelligentsia of most of a century ago, directed against the people of Hampshire (@DerekC -- sorry !). John Betjeman's poem A Hike on the Downs commences: "Yes, rub some soap upon your feet ! / We'll hike round Winchester for weeks"; near its end, there are the lines "Hampshire mentality is low / And that is why they stare at us". Betjeman can be exonerated here: he is not expressing his own true sentiments, but taking the mickey out of precious and snooty intellectual "pseuds", consciously going rurally-slumming.
The wondrous book which we had at home long ago -- dating from the 1940s, containing much comic verse, including beautifully silly clerihews about sundry British places: had one such clerihew -- libellous, but it has stuck in my mind:
The locals at Beaulieu
Are no use to yours truly.
Most of the people in Hants
Need a kick in the pants.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilgarvan in County Derry also has a motor vehicle museum.
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Rothesay on the Isle of Bute has also hosted the Royal National Mod.
In my folk-singing days in the 1960, I sang about "The Day we went to Rothsey-O"
In my folk-singing days in the 1960, I sang about "The Day we went to Rothsey-O"
The heir to the British throne -- currently Prince Charles -- traditionally holds the title of the Duke of Rothesay. Charles's current favoured dwelling is Highgrove House, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
With all those fleas ... my brother (a radio-listener, which I am not) was recently telling me about a programme he'd been listening to, where impassioned naturalists have their say; one such, specialised in fleas and similar creatures: she was remarking with great seriousness that during the Black Death, a lot more fleas perished, than humans did. All I could think of to say, was: as my tutor at university was wont, bemusedly, to remark: "Well, that's a view ..."
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Bagpath in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tetbury Poor Law Union.
Bagpath lies on the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath -- mentioned recently, in post # 26,401. Also on said long-distance path is Charmouth, Dorset. This is a highly tortuous route from Worcester to Shoreham -- 625 miles, as against a "beeline" approx. 130 -- but Charlie-boy had to make a complicated and difficult journey to get out of the country while evading the Roundheads ...
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Charmouth lies, surprisingly enough, at the mouth of the River Char.
The short-ish River Char rises in the Dorset village of Bettiscombe.
Cue one of my favourite past associations, of a supernatural bent.
The short-ish River Char rises in the Dorset village of Bettiscombe.
Cue one of my favourite past associations, of a supernatural bent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bournemouth in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.
EbbwJunction1
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St Stephen's Church was designed by the architect John Loughborough Pearson (1817 – 1897) as a memorial to Alexander Morden Bennett, first vicar of St Peter's Church, Bournemouth. Pearson's practice was not confined to church buildings; one residential property is the Gothic Revival Treberfydd House, which was built between 1847 and 1850 in the village of Llangors (or Llangorse) in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys.
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Guisborough in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Paulinus.
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Frognal was a house that predated Sidcup, the grounds became a WW1 military hospital and has now been developed into the Queen Mary hospital.
Cliveden House near Taplow was likewise used during WW1
Cliveden House near Taplow was likewise used during WW1
Taplow's parish church is, we learn, designed in a mock-medieval style; but was actually built in 1911. Further church-related mock-medieval goings-on "not a million miles away", at Hampnett in Gloucestershire, some way east of Cheltenham (this stuff mentioned by me before, in the game -- a couple of years ago, post #17,687). We are informed that in 1871 the local vicar, the Rev. William Wiggin, painted the chancel, sanctuary and nave windows in an astonishing ornate pattern of mock-medieval stencilling. Although Wiggin later claimed to have done all the painting himself, he may have been trying to claim credit for work done by the famous glass-making firm Clayton & Bell of Bristol.
The Rev. W.'s parishioners -- seemingly not big art-appreciators, and tending to a rather Puritan stance -- disliked his mock-medieval extravaganza, and attempted to raise money to have it whitewashed over; but could not get together the necessary cash. The "British heritage" site from which I derive this info, is very pro- the vicar's artwork, and expresses thankfulness that the killjoys couldn't afford their hoped-for vandalism.
The Rev. W.'s parishioners -- seemingly not big art-appreciators, and tending to a rather Puritan stance -- disliked his mock-medieval extravaganza, and attempted to raise money to have it whitewashed over; but could not get together the necessary cash. The "British heritage" site from which I derive this info, is very pro- the vicar's artwork, and expresses thankfulness that the killjoys couldn't afford their hoped-for vandalism.
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Great Witcombe in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cheltenham Poor Law Union.
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Cotherstone in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Tees.