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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighouse in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Calder.

 

[John Griffiths]

Queensbury in West Yorkshire is also home to a well known brass band (the Black Dyke Mills band).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gwersyllt in Wrexham County Borough also has a church dedicated to Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also a pub called the Wheatsheaf in Knotty Ash, Liverpool (nothing like a pint and a jam butty).

 

[John Griffiths]

Liverpool Stanley was a rugby league team which played under several names and at several locations between its foundation in 1902 and winding up in 1997. It played as Liverpool City at Knotty Ash Stadium 1951-68, and as Runcorn Highfield at Canal Street, Runcorn 1984-91.

 

[Calthrop]

Runcorn is generously supplied with parks: one of them called Phoenix Park -- which is also the name of the chief park of the city of Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Athgarvan in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The local rugby union club is Newbridge RFC; another club of the same name is in South Wales, at Newbridge.

 

[Calthrop]

The local rugby union club is Newbridge RFC; another club of the same name is in South Wales, at Newbridge.

The Welsh name of above-bolded Newbridge (County Borough of Caerphilly) is Trecelyn = town of the holly trees. Another settlement with a holly-themed name is the hamlet of Holly End, Norfolk -- south-east of Wisbech.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Emneth in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wisbech Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The Reverend Wilbert Awdry -- creator of the Railway Series of children's books -- was Vicar of Emneth from 1953 to 1965. There is a rail pedestrian crossing bridge dedicated to him in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire (a couple of miles from the village of Ampfield, where he was born).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leek in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Edward the Confessor.

 

[Calthrop]

Leek has an elaborate coat of arms including among various things, a "moorcock" (black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix). Named after the same bird species is the -- acclaimed -- Moorcock Inn at Garsdale Head, Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appersett in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the A684 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

The bridge carrying the aforementioned A684 over the Widdale Beck in Appersett was designed by architect John Carr, whose name is almost always suffixed with the words 'of York'.

 

[Calthrop]

Bunbury, Cheshire -- north-west of Nantwich -- also has a namesake settlement in Western Australia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barbridge in Cheshire West and Chester also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

A little way south of Barbridge, is the village of Acton. A considerably better-known Acton, is the area of that name in the London Borough of Ealing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a transport museum.

 

[John Griffiths]

Manchester gave its name to cotton goods - shops in the UK and overseas would have 'Manchester departments'. Another settlement lending its name to a type of cloth was Kersey in Suffolk, Kerseys being a kind of woollen fabric.

 

[Calthrop]

Hammond Innes (1913 -- 1998), prolific author of thrillers, lived for many years in Kersey. He was born in Horsham, West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rusper in West Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Horsham Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

An early twentieth century rector of Rusper, Edward Synott, faced ecclesiastical trial for misconduct following the publication of a memoir laying down the misdeeds of his parishioners (it was entitled 'Five Years Hell in a Country Parish'). He was cleared of the charges, and remained rector of the parish for a further 13 years, which I'm sure wasn't awkward at all. A few years later the rector of Stiffkey in Norfolk, Harold Davidson, known as ' The prostitutes' padre', was tried for illicit relationships with young women. He was unfrocked, and killed by a lion in Skegness in 1937 while preaching from the creature's cage.

 

[Calthrop]

@John Griffiths -- you beat me to it with the tales of the two unfortunate rectors ! Another controversial inhabitant of Stiffkey, was the author Henry Williamson, most famous for Tarka the Otter. In the late 1930s, he bought and ran a farm near Stiffkey (told of in various of his writings) -- moving from Devon (see below). Williamson was a keen member of the British Union of Fascists, and admirer of Hitler and his movement -- continued to hold and proclaim those views, even in World War II. Didn't get into bad trouble re this -- the folk around Stiffkey basically regarded him as weird but harmless, and a good farmer and neighbour. From early 1920s to late 1930s, Williamson lived at Georgeham, North Devon -- north-west of Barnstaple.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loxhore in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Barnstaple Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

There is a variety of fuchsia called the 'Loxhore Clarion'. Another fuchsia incorporating a settlement name (whether by intention or accident) is the Dollar Princess.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muckhart in Clackmannanshire is another of the eight settlements known as the Hillfoots Villages.

 

[Calthrop]

Muckhart used to have a Japanese garden, now derelict. St. Mawgan, Cornwall -- near Newquay -- has a Japanese garden, still in good shape.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Columb Major in Cornwall also lies on the line of the River Menalhyl.

 

[341o2]

St Colomb is considered of French origin, also spelt Coloumb in France, another hamlet with name of French origin is Beaulieu (beautiful place).
Seems a pity to be pronounced "Bewley" locally