DerekC
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Donaldson's Vets in Almondbury is one of the locations used for the TV programme The Yorkshire Vet. The original programmes were centred entirely on the Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, North Yorkshire
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Reading in Berkshire also has a Quaker School.
DerekC
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Waterford used to have a Scherzer rolling-lift bascule bridge across the harbour. Rotherhithe in London still has two (although neither can lift any more)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Millbank in the City of Westminster was another area affected by the flooding of the River Thames in 1928.
After the Battle of Worcester in 1651, several thousand Royalist prisoners-of-war were confined at Tothill Fields in Millbank, prior to being sold as slaves in tropical parts. In that Civil War era, Coventry, West Midlands -- being a strongly Puritan town, with little sympathy for Royalists -- was also a favoured location for recalcitrant prisoners on that side in the conflict -- hence "sending to Coventry".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Withernwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Alban.
According to the Michelin Britain Road Atlas: Great Britain has decidedly few settlements with names beginning with, or featuring, "Withern" (which would seem to mean "house in the wood" -- rival, but not highly dissimilar, derivations from Old Norse, and Old English). Only three, in fact -- Withernwick as above; the seaside resort of Withernsea, a relatively few miles away, also in the Holderness area of the East Riding; and still not hugely far removed but on the other side of the Humber, Withern in Lincolnshire -- near Mablethorpe. As will be seen, I'm plumping for the Lincs. settlement.
Xenophon PCDGS
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North Cockerington in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Letchworth in Hertfordshire also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as Icknield Way.
John Griffiths
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The main shopping street in Leeds is called Briggate, a name and etymology shared with the settlement of Briggate in Norfolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Somerton in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Thurne.
John Griffiths
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Llanwern, Newport, also has an operational solar farm.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Talybont-on-Usk also lies on the line of the River Usk.
John Griffiths
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Coniston in Cumbria has also hosted the Linux Bier Wanderung.
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah, me neither.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beddgelert in Gwynedd is another settlement where copper mining took place.
John Griffiths
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Bungay in Suffolk is also associated with a legendary dog. Sadly, not a faithful hound like Gelert, but a terrible hellhound that on 4 August 1577 tore around the parish church in the middle of a fearsome thunderstorm: "All down the church in midst of fire the hellish monster flew, and passing onward to the quire he many people slew." The dog then made off for a nearby town where he cased further mayhem and death.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Binham in Norfolk was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Benedictine Priory.
Binham has a medieval standing cross (rather uncommon in those parts, where the iconoclasts were busy a few centuries ago): made of Barnack limestone or ragstone -- a prized product of the quarries at Barnack (Cambridgeshire, formerly Soke of Peterborough), which was used in the making of many prominent ecclesiastical buildings in eastern England, including Peterborough and Ely Cathedrals.
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John Griffiths
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Allington in Kent has also given its name to an apple variety, the Allington Pippin, which is a bit of a swizz as it was developed in Lincolnshire.
(Poor old Lincolnshire -- one sometimes feels that everybody puts it down / tries to deny its existence.)
Allington has a pub called the Malta -- apparently a unique name in the UK, for hostelries. However; Tynemouth, North Tyneside, has one called the Gibraltar Rock.
John Griffiths
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Well, by coincidence one can point out that the very fine and often unjustly overlooked county of Lincolnshire boasts a location called Gibraltar Point, not a settlement per se but a geographical feature at the heart of a nature reserve that extends nor th as far as Skegness.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blakeney in Norfolk is also adjacently situated next to a nature reserve for wading birds.
John Griffiths
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Queen Philippa, the consort of Edward III, is said to have dined on Blakeney-caught fish. The town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey (a favourite with players of the Alphabet Stations Challenge) was so named in her honour.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abergavenny in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Abergavenny in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
D6130
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Berwick on Tweed in Northumberland also had a pub called the Hen and Chickens.