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Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon was also once administered by the Hundred of Elthorne.
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When a place-name seems to be animal-related: most often, it isn't. Thus Harefield's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon here = army (Danish army -- its English counterpart would be fyrd), felle = field. Likewise Foxdale, Isle of Man: from the Old Norse fors-dal = waterfall dale or valley.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire also has a clock tower.
John Griffiths
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Inveraray is a planned town designed at least in part by John Adam for the Duke of Argyll. John's little brother Robert designed the village of Lowther in Cumbria for the Earl of Lonsdale, and - although unfinished - a very fine and urbane job he did of it.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Columb Major in Cornwall also has a Birds of Prey Centre.
John Griffiths
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In 1676 the parish church of St Columb Major was blown up by three local youths. In 1943 the parish church of Isleworth in west London was burned down by two local boys who two days earlier had fired the church at Hounslow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winchester in Hampshire also has a planetarium.
John Griffiths
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Like Attenborough, I was born in the West Middlesex Hospital, but that is by the by.
Oakham is also the county town of a county not named after its county town.
Oakham is also the county town of a county not named after its county town.
Carlisle is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Schleswig-Holstein. Oakham's "twin" is Barmstedt; Carlisle's, Flensburg (nicely appropriate; both are border towns on southern side of respective borders).
(As a kid, I read about convicts in the bad old days, being set to picking oakum. I didn't have the wit to systematically look the word up, or ask an adult about it; so imagined that it must be some rare wild plant or crop, useful for some purpose and difficult and unpleasant to gather; which grew only in Rutland.)
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John Griffiths
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Reading was or maybe still is also a big place for the manufacture of biscuits.
Reading would seem long to have been, in the public perception, an unlikeable place (among other things, it's where poor old Oscar Wilde was imprisoned) -- Jerome K. Jerome calls it, in Three Men in a Boat, "dirty, dismal Reading". In the same book, Jerome writes approvingly of Iffley, very near Oxford.
John Griffiths
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Like Iffley parish church, the chapel of Oundle School, Oundle, Northants, has stained glass windows by John Piper.
Oundle's Talbot Hotel is said to contain an oak staircase from nearby (demolished) Fotheringhay Castle; which Mary Queen of Scots walked down when being escorted to her execution there in 1587, and which is said thus to be haunted by her ghost. Among the many ups-and-downs of MQ of S's life: fleeing in 1568 from Scotland, she landed and overnighted in Workington, Cumbria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Papcastle in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
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In 1955 the Butlins chain of holiday resorts bought up four seaside hotels in Cliftonville, which were situated close to each other, and marketed them together as the 'Cliftonville Hotels'. During Butlins' heyday, another two hotels in Cliftonville were added, but most of these are now demolished, with one survivor converted to apartments.
Another Butlins holiday camp - still trading, as far as I can see - is in Devon at Minehead.
Another Butlins holiday camp - still trading, as far as I can see - is in Devon at Minehead.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burton Bradstock in Dorset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire also has a Grade I listed church that is dedicated to St James.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Torquay in Devon is also a coastal resort with a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.
Kate Ellis writes a series of, in my opinion agreeable, crime / thriller novels -- for me, nicely balanced between saccharinely "cosy", and pitilessly nasty -- centring on the doings of the police and their detective section, in a thinly-disguised area of South Devon. Her "Morbay" is clearly Torquay; and her "Tradmouth" (with its police station, the centre of what goes on in the books), Dartmouth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Buckfastleigh in Devon also lies on the line of the River Dart.
Buckfastleigh, with 13 letters in its name, is one of the longest place names in England with no repeated letters. In this, it is tied with Buslingthorpe in Leeds; and Buslingthorpe (Lincolnshire); but exceeded by -- with 14 letters -- Bricklehampton, Worcestershire (near Evesham). According to some, Bricklehampton has the longest-name-with-no-repeated-letters not only in England, but in the English-speaking world. (Not a lot of people know that.)
johnnychips
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Ashton-under-Lyne also has a church dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Uppermill in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Almondbury in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.