The 16th-century Welsh-language poet Richard Gwyn was, for a spell, schoolmaster at Overton-on-Dee. Under scrutiny from the authorities as both a Welsh bard and a schoolmaster, he fell foul of them for openly practising the Catholic faith. His last, harrowing, five years or so were spent as a fugitive, and then imprisoned for his Catholicism: kept in confinement in various places, including Bridgnorth, Shropshire; finally, in 1584, executed for treason. He was canonised by the Catholic Church in 1970.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Lynmouth in Devon also has a funicular railway.
John Griffiths
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The artist Thomas Gainsborough and his bride, Margaret Burr, honeymooned in Lynmouth in 1746. It was, he commented, "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast." Gainsborough had been born nineteen years previously in Sudbury, Suffolk.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, was born in Linlithgow Palace in 1542. After an adventurous life, and rather unwise dabbling in plots to depose the English queen Elizabeth, who was holding her in custody, poor old Mary was executed in 1587 at the castle in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thrapston in Northamptonshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Nene Way.
The hunter, naturalist and writer Horace William Wheelwright (1815 -- 65), who spent many years of his life in Australia, and Sweden: practised for a few years, as an attorney in Thrapston. He was born in Tansor, Northamptonshire; some way down the River Nene from Thrapston. (This gentleman is not to be confused with the U.S. citizen William Wheelwright, who initiated much early railway development in South America.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lower Benefield in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Polebrook.
John Griffiths
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Boston, Lincolnshire, also has a church dedicated to St Botolph (and indeed the town is named after the same worthy).
htafc
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Birmingham also shares its name with a settlement in the United States of America.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coleshill in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Cole.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thornton Watlass in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northallerton Poor Law Union.
Near to the above-bolded is Thornton Watlass Hall: which has been used for filming of parts of various TV series -- including All Creatures Great and Small, where it featured as the home of Mrs. Pumphrey (isn't she the owner of the nauseatingly-named Tricki-Woo?). Filming of episodes of All Creatures ... has also been done at Grassington, North Yorkshire.
D6130
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Muker in North Yorkshire was also a major centre for the lead mining industry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Taunton also has a Farmer's Arms pub
D6130
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Hereford was also once a major centre for the commercial (as opposed to artisanal) production of cider.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carfin in Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis Xavier.
D6130
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Walsingham in Norfolk is also a major centre of Roman Catholic pilgrimage.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dundee also has a Russian Orthodox Church.
D6130
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Paisley in Renfrewshire was also once a major centre for the manufacture of jam and marmalade.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Waterfoot in East Renfrewshire also lies on the line of the White Cart Water.
The above-bolded has a namesake settlement in England, and another in Northern Ireland. In this posting, I'll go for the English Waterfoot -- in Lancashire, near Rawtenstall, Borough of Rossendale.
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Stornoway in the Western Isles is also noted for the production of black pudding.
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Peel, on the Isle of Man, also has a diesel-powered generating station.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Whitby in North Yorkshire also has a traditional kipper smokehouse.
Whitby Abbey is under the care of English Heritage. Another impressive historic venue looked after by that organisation -- and which one can visit, likewise on paying to them a fairly eye-watering sum for admittance -- is Osborne House, Isle of Wight; Queen Victoria's island residence -- nearest settlement East Cowes.
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Reedham in Norfolk also has a chain ferry.
There was associated with Reedham as from the 13th century, the Fastolf family: best-known member of same, Sir John Fastolf (1380 -- 1459) -- soldier and landowner, but of greatest fame for having his name and identity, and some of his real-life attributes, borrowed by Shakespeare for his largely-comic character Falstaff. It is reckoned that while the historical Fastolf had his faults -- he was basically an honest sort; with little resemblance to Shakespeare's cowardly nominal soldier / drunkard / glutton / participant in assorted "rackets". A settlement associated with Shakespeare's character, is Windsor -- play The Merry Wives of ... featuring Falstaff in dodgy dealings with the opposite sex.