John Griffiths
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Gosforth (the one in Cumbria, not the queen of Newcastle suburbs) also has a pub called The Red Admiral.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Bigrigg in Cumbria also lies on the route of the A595 road.
John Griffiths
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Saltburn (Yorks NR) also has a water-powered funicular or cliff railway.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nantwich in Cheshire East was also once the location of Brine Baths.
htafc
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The suburb of Boscombe is also home to a professional football team promoted to the Premier League in the 2021-22 season: AFC Bournemouth.
John Griffiths
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A grotesque carving, the 'Boscombe devil', was placed in the 1920s on a building opposite the Grand Theatre by the Lord's Day Observance Society to express its disapproval of Sunday opening. In Newcastle upon Tyne a carving of a grotesque dubbed 'the Vampire Rabbit' is in place on Cathedral Buildings, overlooking the rear of the Anglican cathedral. Its origin and intention is obscure.
John Griffiths
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Harland and Wolff also had a shipyard in (amongst other places) Southampton.
Coalbrookdale also features under a slightly different name, in S.M. Stirling's "Island" series of fantasy / alternative history novels: about a group of Americans mysteriously sent back in time to approx. 1500 BC (exigencies of the plot, have them setting up an outpost in what would have become England).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Worcester also has historical connections to the porcelain industry.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy -- famed as "Woodbine Willie", writer of down-to-earth verse seen as giving a voice to the ordinary soldier in World War I -- was, before his WWI service as an army chaplain, vicar of the (working-class, poor and trouble-beset) parish of St. Paul's in Worcester. Another non-combatant participant in, and versifier of, that war from the average Joe's point of view (like "Willie", regarded by the more snobbish poetry connoisseurs as a churner-out of vulgar doggerel -- these guys laud the Sassoons, Owens, etc.) was Robert W. Service. Service lived for most of his life in Canada, and wrote rumbustious verse about that country's Wild (North-) West; but he was born in Britain -- spent some years of his childhood in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire also lies on the line of the River Garnock.
D6130
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Skipton in North Yorkshire also lies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skenfrith in Monmouthshire also has a ruined castle.
While these things are subjective, and can tie in with whether one is Welsh, or "diawl Sais" -- some would reckon that Skenfrith resembles Builth Wells (Powys): in that both have easy English, but tongue-twisting Welsh, names; those latter being Ynysgynwraidd, and Llanfair-ym-Muallt, respectively.
D6130
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Builth Wells is the venue for the Royal Welsh Show. Scotland's premier agricultural show - the Royal Highland Show - is , despite its name, held at Ingliston, a few miles to the West of Edinburgh.
Castlemaine, Co. Kerry, also has a namesake settlement in the Australian state of Victoria. (There doesn't appear to be a great deal to associate with Ingliston: it seemed to be either that; or Nicholas Monro's 18 ft. tall statue of King Kong, which was exhibited for a while at the showground concerned -- and I used said K.K. in this game, in May.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Just a query....is that the same settlement in which, according to the song "The Wild Colonial Boy", the person was born?
By my understanding -- per song, he was born in Castlemaine, all right: but whether the Irish, or Australian, Castlemaine -- "immigrant, of whatever kind"; or "native" -- depends on the version.
John Griffiths
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Sneem is also situated on the N70 road.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bury in Greater Manchester is another settlement where Black Puddings are made.
Bury is acclaimed for that attribute, in the Stanley Holloway monologue Three-'apence a Foot -- in my opinion, glorious nonsense, about Sam Oglethwaite the joiner's getting mixed up with Noah and his ark and deluge. This is not the only one of these doggerel gems by Holloway, to have its denouement take place in Blackpool.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dorridge in the West Midlands also has a Christadelphian place of worship.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wellington in Somerset was also served by the Grand Western Canal.
Springs Branch
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Wellington was the location of the headquarters of Fox, Fowler & Co. Bank, the last private bank eligible to issue its own banknotes, which remained legal tender until 1964. (Legal tender or not, I wouldn't fancy my chances tendering one of these banknotes to a London cabbie)
Until its merger with Lloyds Bank in 1927, Fox, Fowler & Co had branches in a number of settlements in south-western England, including South Molton, Devon.
Until its merger with Lloyds Bank in 1927, Fox, Fowler & Co had branches in a number of settlements in south-western England, including South Molton, Devon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carmarthen also has a Guildhall.