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Lancaster also has a Friends Meeting House.
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D6130
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Christchurch in Dorset also has a priory church.
EbbwJunction1
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The Priory Church contains a monument to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelly and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. It was created by the sculptor Henry Weekes and was erected by the poet's son in 1854, thirty-two years after his father's death. Mr W Pedia tells us that the monument was first offered to St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, where Mary Shelley and other family members are buried. However, it was declined because of its size and possibly due to the unspoken disapproval of Shelley's reputation by the incumbent and churchwardens. An earlier work from 1849 by Henry Weekes is considered to be one of his finest works. It is a statue to Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, in Cardington, Bedfordshire, is executed in high relief.
Springs Branch
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Inchinnan in Renfrewshire was also involved in construction of airships in the first quarter of the 20th century.
EbbwJunction1
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The White Cart Bridge is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge situated on the A8 road at Inchinnan. It is the only remaining operational lift bridge in the country and became Category A listed in December 1994. Another, although non-operational since 1956, bascule bridge is Keadby Bridge, more formally known as the King George V Bridge, crosses the River Trent near Althorpe and Keadby in Lincolnshire.
Althorpe has a pub called the Dolphin; as has Tamworth. (I love this kind of incongruous "maritime" stuff, in West / central Midlands places which are as far from the sea as you can get in Great Britain -- dolphins make at least some kind of sense, in the lowest reaches of the Trent ...)
EbbwJunction1
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The church of St Editha, Tamworth is the largest medieval parish church in Staffordshire. Most of the church is mid- to late-14th-century and 15th-century work with some 19th-century additions. It was extensively restored by Benjamin Ferry and George Gilbert Scott in the 1850s, and by William Butterfield, ca. 1871. There is a rare example of a double spiral staircase in the tower, the only others being in the Chateau de Chambord, France and All Saints Church, Pontefract.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Adlingfleet in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Osgoldcross Wapentake.
Pamber Heath, Hampshire; is also, only just within its county; being very close to the border of another (E. Riding of Yorkshire / Lincolnshire; and Hampshire / Berkshire).
An "aside" -- not being a scholar of these matters: I had long assumed that the old local-government term "Wapentake", meant an area in which it was understood, and enforced; that all able-bodied men therein were, in times of crisis, liable to "take up their weapons" in a "militia" sense. Have recently learnt, by chance: that it originated with the Vikings; to refer to a collection of local parishes, linked local-government-wise -- the word meaning "show your weapon", and the idea behind it -- that all those in favour of a resolution would raise their sword or axe to show agreement. Confirming that those who engage in "folk-etymology", are very likely to get the wrong idea !
Xenophon PCDGS
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Weston Patrick in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basingstoke Poor Law Union.
DerekC
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The small Humbly Grove oilfield is in the parish of Weston Patrick. A similarly sized field is located at Markwells Wood near Finchdean, Hampshire (the oilfield is just in West Sussex)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Longdon-on-Tern in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Tern.
Springs Branch
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Acton (near Nantwich in Cheshire) also has a canal aqueduct engineered by Thomas Telford.
Acton's most prominent feature would seem to be the much-admired adjacent, Jacobean, Dorfold Hall in Dorfold Park; to avoid which park, a long canal embankment was built in canal's construction. A similar phenomenon, not very far away geographically -- which I hope I can get away with; the railway relevance being "social" rather than "gricing" -- involved the stately home Shugborough Hall: the tunnel of that name, on the Trent Valley rail route, having been created largely in order not to spoil the noble lord's view of his park. Nearest settlement "proper" to Shugborough Hall: is Great Haywood, Staffordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bishop's Offley in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Sow.
The name "Bishop's Offley" brings to mind for me, the lighthearted novel Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White (probably best-known for his idiosyncratic re-telling of the King Arthur story). MMR is set in the back of beyond in south-west Northamptonshire -- an area which the author came to love while teaching at Stowe School, just across the border in Buckinghamshire. I found the book a wondrously mad flight of fancy, featuring many weird "gems" -- including at one point, a name-list of villages supposedly near to where the action takes place -- bucolic "double-barrelled" appellations such as Duke's Doddery, Bishop's Boozey, Monk's Unmentionable, and Idiots' Utterly. Bishop's Offley would fit right in there ! The closest settlement of significance, to the mentioned Stowe School: would seem to be Akeley, Buckinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Just to prove that not all my postings refer to churches......
Henley-on-Thames also has a hostelry named The Bull and Butcher.
Henley-on-Thames also has a hostelry named The Bull and Butcher.
D6130
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Marlow in Buckinghamshire also once had a town centre brewery. (Wethered's in Marlow and Brakspear's in Henley).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Charlestown in Cornwall also has a rowing club.
D6130
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Whitby in North Yorkshire also has a replica sailing ship moored in its harbour.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bettystown in County Meath also hosts an annual sand sculpture contest.
The name Bettystown would seem -- first impressions notwithstanding -- to have nothing to do with ladies named Elizabeth. Per Wiki, the name is an adaptation of the place's earlier one, Betaghstown: meaning not given; but I'd be willing to bet that no-one called Betty, was involved.
A similar situation with another Irish settlement: Kilfenora, Co. Clare -- near Ennistymon. This one definitely, not about any lass called Nora: it's from the Irish for "Church of the Fertile Hillside -- or White Brow -- or White Meadow". (You pays your money and ...)
A similar situation with another Irish settlement: Kilfenora, Co. Clare -- near Ennistymon. This one definitely, not about any lass called Nora: it's from the Irish for "Church of the Fertile Hillside -- or White Brow -- or White Meadow". (You pays your money and ...)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim also has a National Monument of Ireland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oranmore in County Galway also has a church named the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Springs Branch
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Bunratty Castle was well-known for its mediaeval-themed banquets (not sure whether or not these have resumed post-pandemic).
Another modern establishment offering a mediaeval dining experience is the hotel incorporated into the 13th century Ruthin Castle.
Another modern establishment offering a mediaeval dining experience is the hotel incorporated into the 13th century Ruthin Castle.
There's a cherished tale in our family, about an uncle of mine who -- many years ago now -- on holiday in Ireland with his wife, went to a mediaeval banquet at Bunratty Castle. Having imbibed rather freely in the course of the feast; he enquired rather loudly, as to when the mediaeval strip-tease was to take place. My aunt was quite mortified ...
Born and brought up in Ruthin, was Sir Henry Haydn Jones (1863 -- 1950) -- MP for his constituency for thirty-five years (and of course, he's well known to us for another reason). He died in Tywyn, Gwynedd.