Xenophon PCDGS
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Yafforth in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northallerton Poor Law Union.
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John Griffiths
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Yafforth had (until recently) a pub named The Reveller; there is a Reveller Bar in Donegal.
Nowadays, the county town of Co. Donegal is not Donegal, but Lifford. An English parallel: the county town of Buckinghamshire is Aylesbury, not Buckingham.
John Griffiths
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Orpington in SE London also has a variety of duck named after it.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wroxeter in Shropshire is another settlement where the remains of a Roman bath house were discovered during archeological excavations.
John Griffiths
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Barnetby le Wold in North Lincolnshire also has a church looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Greetham in Rutland also lies on the route of the long-distance trail known as Viking Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Worsley in Greater Manchester also has a braided motorway exchange.
Springs Branch
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Torquay was used as a filming location for a well-known BBC TV comedy series.
Of course, I'm talking about The Goodies: Episode 54, titled "2001 and a Bit" was filmed in the town.
Another south-coast town used for filming by The Goodies (episode entitled "Invasion of the Moon Creatures") was Hastings,Kent East Sussex.
Of course, I'm talking about The Goodies: Episode 54, titled "2001 and a Bit" was filmed in the town.
Another south-coast town used for filming by The Goodies (episode entitled "Invasion of the Moon Creatures") was Hastings,
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Xenophon PCDGS
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I confess not to be able to trace a settlement of Hastings in the county of Kent, so I will await someone more knowledgeable than I to make the next association.
Springs Branch
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See what happens when you opted to study Latin rather than Geography at school. County now corrected - continue from Hastings.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Society of Friends meeting house.
John Griffiths
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Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey was born in Ipswich in 1473. After a career occupying high church and state offices, serving the increasingly paranoid and psychopathic Henry VIII, he was arrested and accused of treason. He died at Leicester in 1530 while being taken in custody to London and a presumably sticky end.
Geoffrey of Monmouth mentions in his 12th-century history of Britain, a supposed King Leir of Britain in ancient times, claimed to have reigned in Leicester: an idea borrowed -- freely -- by Shakespeare in his tragedy King Lear. An English settlement more definitely used as a setting by Shakespeare in another play, is Windsor (Merry Wives Of ...).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winchester also had a medieval-period leper hospital.
Also with a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of New Hampshire: is Londonderry / Derry -- the N.H. town favours the "Derry" form. (One finds at least eight settlements called Winchester, in various parts of the U.S.A. -- none of them associated with the Winchester rifle, which is named after its inventor Mr. Winchester.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coventry has also held the title of UK City of Culture.
John Griffiths
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Famously gloomy poet Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922, but is mainly associated with the city where he lived and worked from 1955 until his death in 1985: Hull.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Deal in Kent also has a maritime museum.
A favourite of mine: W.S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads. Deal is mentioned in one of same, The Yarn of the Nancy Bell : about cannibalism (a bit of an obsession of the author's) -- the ballad oughtn't to be funny, but is. Another English settlement in another Bab Ballad: that about Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo and his quest for true love (as the tale progresses, the titled gentleman in fact turns out to be a bit of a cad). The author doesn't specify whether the Devon, or Oxfordshire, Bampton, is alluded to: I'm going at random, for the Oxfordshire one.
John Griffiths
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Milborne Port in Somerset also has a village hall and a town hall.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mudford in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Gascoigne.
John Griffiths
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As well as including hamlets that rejoice in the names Mudford Sock, West Mudford and Up Mudford (which calls for a Westward Ho! style !), Mudford is on the Monarch's Way trail, as is Alcester in Warwickshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cofton Hackett in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Arrow.
John Griffiths
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Pope Benedict XVI said mass in Cofton Park during his visit to the UK in September 2010; this mass had originally been scheduled to have been celebrated at Coventry Airport at Baginton, Warwickshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Exhall in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Sowe.
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Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire also has a church dedicated to St Giles.
The above-bolded gets a mention in P.G. Wodehouse's tales of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster; at one point, Bertie likens the demeanor of some noble lord, to "a wet weekend in Chalfont St. Giles". This brought to mind for me, something once heard from a relative who lived just north of Bristol: said relative told of a remark by an associate of his, who -- having visited Belgrade many decades ago, under Communism -- gave vent to a comparison of that city, with another South Gloucestershire north-from-Bristol settlement: "about as lively as Frampton Cotterell on a Sunday afternoon."