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Xenophon PCDGS
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Turton (on the border of Greater Manchester and of Lancashire) was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bolton Poor Law Union.
Turton's name would appear to have connotations of the Norsemen's getting to lots of places in Britain -- reckoned to come from Old Norse "Thor", and Old English tun = farm or village (likely, one feels, "Thor" as a person's given name, rather than a direct reference to the god). "Out of the same basic stable" would seem to come Thurgarton, Norfolk (near Cromer); but here, reckoned from "Thurgar's farm or village".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Trunch in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of North Erpingham.
Springs Branch
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Aspley Guise in Beds. also has a church dedicated to St Botolph.
DerekC
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Aspley Guise was once home to a large brickworks. Brickmaking used to be a widely distributed local industry in the areas where suitable clay deposits exist. The Brickworks Museum at Swanwick in Hampshire is on the site of a similar (but smaller) facility and is well worth a visit if you are in the area.
(Railway note - not part of the association - the 60cm gauge demonstration line on the site, run by the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society, has sadly closed down)
(Railway note - not part of the association - the 60cm gauge demonstration line on the site, run by the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society, has sadly closed down)
In the past -- and still to some extent today -- the Swanwick area has been noted for strawberry growing. Of similar renown in Scotland for strawberries and other soft fruits, are the environs of Blairgowrie and Rattray, Perth and Kinross.
Springs Branch
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Newton Castle at Blairgowrie is the family home of the Chief of the Macpherson Clan (although the current chief does not live there).
Previously the Macpherson Clan had been based at Invereshie House, and at Pitmain House, both located near Kingussie.
Previously the Macpherson Clan had been based at Invereshie House, and at Pitmain House, both located near Kingussie.
There was a long-running kids'-comic cartoon strip about the doings of the eccentric monarch King Gussie -- clearly a play on the name of the above-bolded Scottish settlement. There was another such mock-historical comic strip, with punning title, about the lovably incompetent knight Sir Percy Vere. The de Vere family were for many centuries, feudal lords of Lavenham, Suffolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk also has historical connections to the medieval woollen trade.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tydd St Mary in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Elloe Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pawlett in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of North Petherton.
Springs Branch
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Jedediah Strutt - the 18th Century pioneer of ribbed stocking manufacturing - was born in South Normanton in 1726.
Although a statue of Strutt may be seen adorning a building now housing the Halifax bank in Derby (the city where he died), his body was buried in Belper, Derbyshire.
Although a statue of Strutt may be seen adorning a building now housing the Halifax bank in Derby (the city where he died), his body was buried in Belper, Derbyshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bromsgrove in Worcestershire also has historical connections to nail-making.
John Griffiths
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Dundee is also a place where marmalade is made.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gateshead in Tyne and Wear also has a noted contemporary art gallery.
John Griffiths
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Brighton was the home late in life of journalist and author (Billy Liar et al) Keith Waterhouse, born in Leeds.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Swillington in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.
Located near Swillington is Leventhorpe Vineyard, which was until recently the most northerly commercial vineyard in Britain. It has been mentioned approvingly by Rick Stein; who is of course more customarily associated with Padstow in Cornwall.
John Griffiths
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Padstow celebrates the 'Obby 'Oss festival on May Eve, when the Old and Blue Ribbon Obby Osses cavort through the town. Another possibly pre-Christian festival survives in Allendale Town in Northumberland, where townsfolk - albeit not dressed up as horses - run around with blazing tar barrels on New Years Eve.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burnley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.
D6130
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Foulridge in Lancashire is also situated on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool canal.
John Griffiths
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The artist John Constable was born in East Bergholt in 1776. He died in 1837 and is buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead church at Hampstead in London.