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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Theddlethorpe St Helen in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The adjacent Theddlethorpe Dunes Nature Reserve is one of the few places in Britain where the rare natterjack toad is found. Another location for the species is near Formby, Merseyside.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sedgwick in Cumbria is another enclave where red squirrels are still to be found.

 

[Calthrop]

Farleton, Cumbria, also lies on the line of the Lancaster Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Graveship in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kendal Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

A medium-tough one: Nether Graveship is, I learn, an area of the town of Kendal. Seemingly, in times past large parishes were sub-divided into "graveships": the word from the old Northern English / Scottish word grave / greve / grieve = steward. "Graveship" thus, presumably an area administered by a steward.

A settlement at the other end of the country, also with "grave" in its name: is Wargrave, Berkshire. This name explained as a worn-down form of "weir grove". A very different process, from that involved with the Cumbrian name; but at all events, neither would seem to have anything to do with burying dead people !

 

[DerekC]

In the churchyard at Wargrave is a columbarium, a structure designed to house the cremated remains of deceased persons. There is a similar structure at the crematorium in Golders Green, North London.

 

[Calthrop]

In the churchyard at Wargrave is a columbarium, a structure designed to house the cremated remains of deceased persons.

I'd have thought from columbarium, = dovecote: does it indeed mean that in Latin, as well as the cremated-remains thing?

There is a similar structure at the crematorium in Golders Green, North London.

Spike Milligan (1918 -- 2002) wrote in his relative youth, a poem expressing his willingness to be buried pretty well anywhere; but begging not to be cremated at Golders Green. He escaped that fate -- he is buried in the churchyard at Winchelsea, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhuddlan in Denbighshire is also a settlement that had a town ditch incorporated into its defences in medieval times.

 

[Calthrop]

Harlech, Gwynedd: also features in the title and "details" of a Welsh song on general war-and-battles theme -- the Rhuddlan one is mournful, while its Harlech counterpart is triumphal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernaerfon is the site of another of the strategic castles that were constructed during the reign of Edward I.

 

[Calthrop]

Northam, North Devon, also has a namesake settlement in Western Australia. The W.A. community is "Carnarvon" -- old spelling, one reckons, rather than Aussie cluelessness !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Diddywell in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bideford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

@Xenophon PCDGS -- you don't half set some posers ! Thoughts of a certain late much-loved entertainer, and certain things which he seemed to have on the brain: lead from Diddywell (Devon) to Knotty Ash, Merseyside.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Some fifteen miles north-ish from Poulton-le-Fylde, is a semi-namesake: Poulton-le-Sands, Borough of Morecambe. Both settlements were known as just Poulton; until 1842, shortly after the introduction of the Penny Post and postage stamps: when in both cases, the "-le-" suffix was officially added, in the hope of avoiding postal confusion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Overton in Lancashire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Helen's Church, Overton, is reckoned to be the oldest church in Lancashire. The same distinction reputedly belongs, re Warwickshire, to St. Peter's Church, Wootton Wawen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milcote in Warwickshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Pathlow.

 

[Calthrop]

Milcote lies on one of several rivers in England, with the name Stour. Located on another Stour -- the East Anglian one -- is Cavendish, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Foxearth on the border of Suffolk and Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sudbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Amongst the many small breweries which formerly operated around England, the family name Ward appears surprisingly frequently amongst the owners. This appears, at least partially, to have arisen from close friendships and inter-marriage between the various brewing families.

Ward & Sons Ltd brewery operated in Foxearth until a takeover and closure in 1958, with the Ward family still continuing their involvement in the industry for many years afterwards.

Another brewery, owned by a Bob Ward, was the Two Shires Brewery which operated for a short period in the 1980s in the Greater Manchester town of Stubbins.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twiston in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn(shire).

 

[Calthrop]

Twiston lies in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding National Beauty. Re the "Forest of...." name, there is disagreement over whether it should be pronounced "Boe-land", or "Bolland". A settlement with, likewise, two rival pronunciations each with roughly the same level of support: is Shrewsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanidloes in Powys also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Calthrop]

Newport, Gwent was -- like nowadays sleepy Llanidloes -- a centre of industrial unrest in the Chartist revolt of 1839.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlesbrough also has a transporter bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Halifax, West Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Middlesborough's "twin" is Oberhausen; Halifax's is Aachen.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tom Bailey (born 18 January 1954 in Halifax) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as the lead vocalist for the new wave band The Thompson Twins, which released five singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. The band's name was based on the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson (who are not twins) in the English language version of Herge's comic strip The Adventures of Tintin. At various stages they had up to seven members, but their best-known incarnation was as a trio between 1982 and 1986. Anyway, I digress .... Tom Bailey grew up in a family associated with the medical profession. His father was the Medical Officer of Health for Chesterfield Borough Council, and and Tom Bailey was educated at Chesterfield Boys' Grammar School.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire also has a church with a crooked spire.