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[EbbwJunction1]

The actress Felicity Kendal was born in Olton in 1946. She is, of course, most famous for her role in the BBC sitcom The Good Life, in which she and Richard Briers starred as Barbara and Tom Good alongside their neighbour Margo (Penelope Keith Keith) and Jerry Leadbetter (Paul Edington).
The series was set in Surbiton, south-western Greater London but outdoor filming took place in Kewferry Road, Northwood, northern Greater London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockport in Greater Manchester was also the scene of an aircraft disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

Inhabitants of Stockport are often called Stopfordians. A similar phenomenon has the people of Shaftesbury, Dorset: called Shastonians.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth in West Yorkshire also has a steep cobble-surfaced road in the centre of the town.

 

[Calthrop]

Liverpool is also twinned with a settlement in South America. Liverpool's "twin" is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Haworth's is Macchu Picchu, Peru (! -- the weirdness of this twinning business -- Haworth is quite old and character-ful, but ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St John the Baptist, Maddermarket, is a redundant Anglican church in the city of Norwich. In it's north chapel is a depiction of the Annunciation made by the firm of James Powell and Sons (also known as Whitefriars Glass), who were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. Another example of their work can be found at St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Carbrooke, Norfolk; this was installed when the church was significantly remodelled in the Nineteenth Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scoulton in Norfolk was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wayland.

 

[Springs Branch]

Rampton in Cambridgeshire also has a church with a thatched roof (one of the rare examples of an East Anglian thatched church which is not located in Norfolk or Suffolk)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Stanion in Northamptonshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

King's Cliffe (Northamptonshire) also is -- or would seem to be -- on the edge of Rockingham Forest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has almshouses,

 

[Calthrop]

One of Charles II's seemingly innumerable mistresses, Catherine Pegge, was born near Ashbourne. Another occupant of that role, to me one of the more interesting ones, was Louise de Kerouaille: hated by the populace at large for being Catholic, French, and -- in popular suspicion -- an agent working on behalf of France. One of the various titles conferred upon Louise, was that of Baroness Petersfield (Hampshire).

 

[D6130]

Midhurst in West Sussex also lies on the River Rother.

 

[Calthrop]

Chichester in West Sussex -- not far away -- is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Eure-et-Loir. Chichester's "twin" is Chartres; Midhurst's is Nogent-le-Rotrou. (A name I've loved, since discovering it as a kid; and wanting to mis-translate it as "no gentleman -- the rotten hole" [apologies to Nogent's citizens].)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a cathedral with a detached bell tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Teetering on the edge of forbidden territory here: L.T.C. Rolt (1910 -- 1974), described by Wiki as an "engineering historian", was born in Chester. He spent the later part of his life in -- and is buried at -- Stanley Pontlarge (Gloucestershire -- near Winchcombe).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthilly in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[Calthrop]

Porthilly features with some prominence nowadays in the retailing country-wise, of oysters; as does Poole, Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cadgwith in Cornwall also lies on the route of the National Trail known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Cadgwith is of note for the song The Cadgwith Anthem -- one of those rousing, tuneful, but basically not-very-sense-making folk songs: including the seemingly random words: "Where the beauties of Kashmir lay drooping his head". Seemingly nothing to do with the geographical Kashmir, Pakistan / India; maybe with the fabric Cashmere wool, obtained from goats? In the early 19th century, C.T. Tower of Weald Hall, Essex (near South Weald, just west of Brentwood), attempted to inaugurate Cashmere wool production in England.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brewer and politician Octavius Coope (of Ind Coope fame) lived at South Weald. He served as MP for Great Yarmouth, and later for Brentford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greenford in West London was also once under the jurisdiction of the Brentford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ready Brek was first manufactured in 1957 by J Lyons at its factory complex in Greenford. Since 1990 it has been made by Weetabix at Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton Cleveleys in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas Owen.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkham, Lancashire, also lies on the A585 road.

 

[DerekC]

Kirkham was once referred to as KIrkham-in-Amounderness. Amounderness was one of the six ancient hundreds of Lancashire, dating back to the 13th Century, Long before that the name related to a Norse wapentake covering the land between the Rivers Ribble and Lune. The next of the six hundreds to the north was Lonsdale, which still survives on the map in the name of Kirkby Lonsdale, now in the modern county of Cumbria.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkby Lonsdale has a venerable bridge over the River Lune, called locally the "Devil's Bridge". In Ceredigion is the village of Devil's Bridge (Welsh Pontarfynach) -- well known to us ! Found in various places in Britain, is this name and accompanying legend (Devil promises to old woman, to magically create a bridge; with his payment being, the soul of the first living creature to cross the bridge. Old woman fools Devil by, on bridge's completion, throwing bread to entice dog to cross it in pursuit of bread -- so instead of a human soul, the Devil winds up with just that of a dog).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ysbty Cynfyn in Powys also lies on the route of the A4120 road.

 

[Calthrop]

A -- fairly -- interesting feature of Ysbyty Cynfyn is that it is (with very slight rounding-down of fractions) 69 miles from Cardiff, and 169 miles from London. Dartmouth, Devon, is the same distance from London.