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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penshaw in Tyne and Wear also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace.

 

[D6130]

Edinburgh also has a prominent hilltop monument modelled on an ancient Greek temple.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[D6130]

Headingley in the suburbs of Leeds also has a top class cricket stadium which is a venue for test matches.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barwck-in-Elmet in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

The centre of Barwick-in-Elmet is the location of an 86ft-tall maypole. This is reckoned to be the second tallest maypole in Britain, pipped at the post, you might say, by the 88ft specimen at Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Nidd.

 

[Calthrop]

She believed Jesus was always with her, when travelling by bus always bought two tickets, and refused to let anyone sit on the apparently empty seat

I think that is what they call the Anthropomorphist Heresy.

 

[Calthrop]

Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Nidd.

Pateley Bridge claims to have the oldest sweet shop in the world. Oxford, I think, claims to have the smallest gift shop in the world -- the Old Sheep Shop ("Alice" reference).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

London Welsh RFC moved to the Kassam Stadium, Oxford in 2012 to fulfil their English Premiership entry criteria regarding stadium capacity. At the end of the 2015 season, following relegation, the club left Oxford and returned to Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Teddington, formerly in Middlesex, also has a lock on the River Thames.

 

[D6130]

Elstree in Hertfordshire is also the site of a television studio.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bletchley is also a pre-existing town that was absorbed into the new city of Milton Keynes.

 

[D6130]

Netherton near Dudley in the West Midlands also has a pub named 'The Old Swan'....although it's more commonly called 'Ma Pardoe's'.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Andrew, Netherton is an Anglican parish church that was designed by Thomas Lee (1794 - 1834) and opened in 1830, becoming the parish church for Netherton in 1844. In 1826, Thomas Lee designed the Guildhall in Barnstaple, which was finished 1828; it is currently being restored and makes an impressive frontage for the later Pannier Market.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishop's Tawton in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Barnstaple Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Along with Bishop's Tawton, Fremington lies on the course of the River Taw.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Much Hadham in Hertfordshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[John Griffiths]

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[DerekC]

The sculptor Henry Moore is buried in the churchyard of St Andrews, Much Hadham. He was born at Castleford in West Yorkshire.

 

[D6130]

Baildon in West Yorkshire also has a pub named 'The Junction'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Droylsden in Greater Manchester also has a Moravian church.

 

[Springs Branch]

Another settlement with long-exhausted coal pits on adjacent moorland is Horwich, Greater Manchester.

Droylsden is on the route of the Ashton canal, which runs between central Manchester and a junction with the Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Ashton-under-Lyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delph in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Tame.

 

[Springs Branch]

Liversedge West Yorkshire is also on the route of the A62 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gomersal in West Yorkshire is another part of the area known as the Heavy Woollen District.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Gomersal was the filming location for a number of scenes in the long-running period drama Heartbeat. The series was filmed at various locations around North Yorkshire, including exterior scenes of Aidensfield being filmed in the village of Goathland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Malzeard in North Yorkshire is another settlement where the traditional Long Sword dance is performed.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Kirkby Malzeard has one pub, the Queens Head. A second pub, The Henry Jenkins, was named after a man from Ellerton-on-Swale who died in 1670, allegedly aged 169; however, it closed in June 2008.