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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newark in Nottinghamshire also has a sugar beet factory.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gloucester was also besieged during the Civil War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Banbury in Oxfordshire is also mentioned in a children's nursery rhyme.

 

[Calthrop]

Banbury has a type of cake named after it. One might imagine the same applying to Bunbury, Cheshire -- north-west of Nantwich -- and buns; but it would appear that it doesn't.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Drayton also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Robert Clive (1725 -- 74), who played a large part in gaining India for the British Empire: was born near; and attended school in; Market Drayton. He sat as M.P. for Shrewsbury from 1761 until his death; and was Mayor of that city 1762 -- 63.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham is also situated with its land area enclosed by a river meander.

 

[Calthrop]

Widnes is also twinned with a settlement in Slovakia. Durham's "twin" is Banska Bystrica; Widnes's is Poprad.

 

[John Griffiths]

Warrington was also transferred from Lancashire to Cheshire in the local government reforms of 1974.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverness also has a rowing club.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirriemuir, Angus: features with Inverness and other places, in a well-known ribald song.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dumfries also has a camera obscura.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1306 Robert the Bruce, before becoming King of Scots, killed his rival the Red Comyn at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries. Edinburgh also has a Greyfriars Kirk; most renowned for the fourteen-year vigil over the grave in the churchyard, of his owner: kept up by his terrier Bobby until the dog's death in 1872. There is in Edinburgh, a much-loved statue of Greyfriars Bobby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hove in East Sussex also has a floral clock.

 

[Calthrop]

Hove in East Sussex also has a floral clock.

Local football team is Brighton and Hove Albion. West Bromwich (West Midlands) also has a football team with the suffix Albion.

 

[John Griffiths]

Musician Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of the group Thin Lizzy, was born in West Bromwich in 1949. After considerable musical success and fast living, he became addicted to heroin and died of related health problems in 1986 in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in Salisbury's Museum, an impressive archaeological collection from the area around Stonehenge, made by Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 -- 1900) -- British Army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. Dwarfing his Salisbury contribution, is the enormous collection of assorted artifacts which he donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum (indeed a fascinating place) at the University of Oxford. From accounts of his personal dealings, Pitt Rivers would seem to have been one of the nastiest persons who have ever lived; but, hey, nobody's perfect ...

 

[D6130]

Marlow in Buckinghamshire is also situated on the River Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Shiplake in Oxfordshire also lies on the route of the A4155 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lower Shiplake had a pub called The Baskerville (closed 2020). Clyro, Radnorshire, has an establishment called The Baskerville Arms Hotel (once a 'country inn' and presumably a nice proper pub, it now describes itself rather emetically as 'a boutique guest house').

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abbeyleix in County Laois also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Carpet manufacture was at one time, one of Abbeyleix's local industries. Altogether bigger on the carpet-weaving scene has been, and is: Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hersham in Surrey also has a football team whose name is the town name suffixed by 'Harriers'

 

[John Griffiths]

Goole in East Yorkshire is also a port town that came into being because of its location at a canal junction with a navigable river.

 

[Calthrop]

Goole has an "unofficial twinning arrangement" with Gibraltar; there is a Gibraltar Court in the former, and a Goole Court in the latter. Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire, where the Wash meets the North Sea proper, has a National Nature Reserve of some renown; it lies about three miles east of Wainfleet All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Partney in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Lymn.

 

[Springs Branch]

Partney is served by Stagecoach's 56 InterConnect bus, runnig between Lincoln and Skegness.

The same bus route also passes through the Lincolnshire town of Wragby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangorwen in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints parish church was built between 1838 and 1841 under the inspiration of the Oxford Movement, and was one of the first churches to embody their theological and architectural ideals. One of the leading figures in the Movement was Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800 – 1882) was born at Pusey House in the village of Pusey in Berkshire, which is today a part of Oxfordshire.