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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tavistock in Devon also hosts a Goose Fair.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mayo, Co Mayo, also shares its name with a well-known clinic.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Peace.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mozzarella cheese is also made at Laverstoke Park Farm at Overton, Hampshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Of the two rivers, famed for trout fishing, which meet at Southampton and become Southampton Water: Overton is the nearest significant settlement, to the source of the Test (Wiki tells us that in times of extreme rainfall, its source can "migrate" a little way eastward). The source of the River Itchen lies some fifteen miles to the south, near the village of Kilmeston, a little way south of New Alresford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hinton Ampner in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawley.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hinton Ampner is served by the Stagecoach bus route 67, which runs from Winchester to Petersfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brixham in Devon also has a statue of William of Orange.

 

[Calthrop]

I have recently discovered to my pleasure, that there is a feature of the quays at Brixham; which also obtains at the Town Quay at West Cowes, Isle of Wight. Namely: a number of individuals of that charming wading bird the turnstone (Arenaria interpres) which have become accustomed to people, and freely wander around the quays concerned; sometimes getting offerings of food from the folks.

 

[John Griffiths]

There is also a chain ferry (albeit rather smaller, and hand operated) at Teddington in SW London, between Trowlock Island in the River Thames and the mainland.

 

[Calthrop]

Erith (London Borough of Bexley) also gets a mention in Kipling's poem The River's Tale (the Thames gives a potted version of its history).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend in Kent is another settlement on the line of the final reaches of the River Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

The long-distance footpath the Wealdway starts at the Town Pier in Gravesend, and runs south to Eastbourne, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jevington in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Eastbourne Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

A rare Serpentine elm tree (U. montana serpentina) grows in the churchyard at Jevington. Another such tree was recorded as being planted in 1916 at the arboretum of Ryston Hall, Ryston, Norfolk.

 

[Calthrop]

A rare Serpentine elm tree (U. montana serpentina) grows in the churchyard at Jevington. Another such tree was recorded as being planted in 1916 at the arboretum of Ryston Hall, Ryston, Norfolk.

Hey, you lot -- you should be at the Front, not messing around planting stupid rare trees ...

Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire -- in the northern suburbs of Bristol -- also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[John Griffiths]

We'd better keep quiet that the specimen trees probably came from Berlin...

Birtley, Tyne & Wear, also has a pub called 'The Mill House'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mossley in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

[johnnychips]

Woodley also lies on the River Tame.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridgemont in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Peak Forest Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Bridgemont in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Peak Forest Canal.

When in difficulty, resort to ... the Internet catalogue of "things to do in..." -- often far from "in": as with that for Bridgemont -- which includes a "Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience" at Arley, Cheshire: about 25 miles to the west.

 

[John Griffiths]

In the 19th century the leading light in Arley was Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton, who not only rebuilt Arley Hall and, ahem, 'restored' the parish church, he built and rebuilt cottages on his estate and was a keen High Church man. He also found time to write poetry about another of his enthusiasms, fox hunting.

Another literary fox hunter, favouring prose over verse, was the sadly largely forgotten Robert Smith Surtees, the creator of Jorrocks and author of numerous picaresque comic novels, who lived at Hamsterley, near Consett in County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Another literary fox hunter, favouring prose over verse, was the sadly largely forgotten Robert Smith Surtees, the creator of Jorrocks and author of numerous picaresque comic novels, who lived at Hamsterley, near Consett in County Durham.

Hamsterley has a pub called the Cross Keys; Saffron Walden, Essex, has a Cross Keys Hotel. (It would seem difficult, maybe impossible, to find via the Net, a derivation for Hamsterley's name; one feels, though, that it is -- regrettably -- certain that sweet little furry rodents are not involved.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dalby-cum-Skewsby in North Yorkshire also has a turf maze.

 

[DerekC]

Brandsby is another of the spring line villages to the south of the Howardian Hills in North Yorkshire

 

[Calthrop]

Gilling East also lies on the B1363 road, a few miles north-east of Brandsby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scawton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ryedale Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Milton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire also has a pub named The Hare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shipton-under-Wychwood is another of three villages that were named after the ancient forest of Wychwood.

 

[Calthrop]

As we're onto Wychwood (I've established that the name is not connected with occult-trafficking ladies): being somewhat facetious -- "witch" wrong-etymology, plus the name Shipton, leads thought-process to Mother Shipton (Ursula Shipton nee Southeil, c.1488 -- 1561): soothsayer and prophetess -- who spent her life and did her stuff around Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.