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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moor Row in Cumbria also lies on the route of the Coast to Coast long-distance footpath.

 

[Calthrop]

Murton, County Durham -- near Seaham -- also received in the 19th century a considerable influx of people from Cornwall, seeking work.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trimdon in County Durham was also the scene of a colliery disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

Launceston, Cornwall, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tresmeer in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Launceston Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a Cornish cross in the churchyard at Tresmeer. According to Arthur Langdon it was formerly in the churchyard (St Sidwell's Church) of the village of Laneast, Cornwall. He observed it in the 1890s placed at the head of the grave of a late vicar of Tresmeer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lezant in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of East Wivelshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Close to Lezant is the hamlet of Trecarrel; King Charles I spent the night of August 1st 1644 at the house of Ambrose Manaton there. A few years later, he spent many months as the recipient of far less convivial hospitality, in Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight.

 

[John Griffiths]

Carisbrooke Castle has a donkey-powered well - thankfully, the donks only do brief demonstrations of the treadmill mechanism these days. More donkeys are to be found living a deservedly relaxed life at the Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary in St Boswells, Roxburghshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of St. Boswells is derived from Saint Boisil; one of a contingent of monks from the great monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, who in the 7th century moved westward to inaugurate an abbey at Old Melrose near modern St. Boswells; which would come to be, after the saint, the name of said village and parish.

(I find self musing on the great Dr. Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell; on their tour of Scotland together, maybe visiting or passing near St. Boswells -- with Johnson, who never missed an opportunity for taking the mickey out of Scotland / Scots / the long-suffering Boswell; perhaps saying to the latter something of the order of "if you're a saint, I'm Queen of the May".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inishmurray in County Sligo also had its monastery attacked by Vikings in the first millenium.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, Inishmurray is nowadays uninhabited. Latching on to the seeming nearest settlement -- Grange, on the County Sligo mainland: several ships of the Spanish Armada came to grief during the fleet's retreat back to Spain after defeat, just off Grange; which has an Armada interpretive centre. Survivors of another ship of the Armada, wrecked in the region of the Orkney Islands, fetched up at Westray in that island group; where they were welcomed, and settled.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Underhoull in Shetland also has discovered sites incorporating Viking longhouses.

 

[John Griffiths]

The longhouses at Underhoull were excavated in the early 1960s by archaeologist Alan Small. Another site Small worked on was at Alyth in Perthshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carrbridge in the Scottish Highlands also has a stone packhorse bridge,

 

[Calthrop]

For the "birders" -- the Carrbridge area is in many respects, "wildlife heaven": including being a good location for the crested tit (Lophophanes cristatus) -- widespread on the European continent, but in our islands found only in Scotland's "mid-north". Another good crested-tit spot is Banchory -- on Deeside, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dinnet in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

[Calthrop]

Blair Atholl (Perth and Kinross) also lies just within the Cairngorms National Park.

 

[John Griffiths]

Blair Atholl regularly hosts a Scout movement jamborette (smaller than a jamboree). A Jamborette was also held by the Brighton boy scouts in 1963.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ducklington in Oxfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Springs Branch]

Oakley, Buckinghamshire, was also among the lands granted to Norman nobleman Robert D'Oyly by King William I following the Norman Conquest.

One little-known bit of history is that, following widespread settlement by the Normans in England, Sir Robert D'Oyly married a local maid named Eleanor Wragg, who then took on the unfortunate married name Lady D'Oyly-Wragg.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

At one time it was thought Oakley held a rare (and possibly unique) double distinction, in that a Victoria Cross recipient, Edward Brooks VC, and a Medal of Honour recipient, James J Pym, were both born in the village. However, the latter, a namesake of a contemporary James Pym from Oakley, has been found to be from Garsington, a village 10 miles away in Oxfordshire.

 

[341o2]

Garsington has an opera festival in the grounds of the local manor.
Another similar festival is held at Glyndebourne, near Lewes

 

[John Griffiths]

Hawkhurst in Kent also has a bonfire society (Lewes has several)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goudhurst in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cranbrook Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Goudhurst church tower was an important triangulation point during the Anglo French triangulation of 1784-90, to measure the distance between the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and the Paris Observatory. The Base line for the British end of the process- supervised by General William Roy RE - lay on Hounslow Heath in Middlesex, the northern end at Kings Arbour (now in the northern fringes of Heathrow Airport), the southern end near Hampton Poor House (now Roy Grove, Hampton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ynysddu in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Theodore.

 

[John Griffiths]

Singer Ricky 'Tell Laura I Love Her' Valance (David Spencer) was born in Ynysddu in 1936. After living for several years in Spain, he moved to Skegness in 2015 and died there in 2020.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Minehead in Somerset also has a Butlin's holiday resort complex.

 

[Calthrop]

Minehead is twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Mayenne: viz. St. Berthevin. Devizes, Wlltshire, is also twinned with a settlement in that departement -- the town of Mayenne (which is not the county-town equivalent -- go figure).