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Wendover in Buckinghamshire also has a clock tower.
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In October 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -- 94), author of Treasure Island and sundry other works; stayed for a night at the Red Lion Inn in Wendover. This prompted an essay by him, called An Autumn Effect. Stevenson was born, and spent his childhood, in Edinburgh.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.
Leeds is another Northern city which has a semi-namesake "down south", potentially confusing to poorly-informed prospective visitors. Respectively: Sheffield Green village and the adjacent Sheffield Park / Gardens (near the Bluebell Railway station), East Sussex; and Leeds Castle, Kent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lathom in Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
John Griffiths
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Something which tends to be rather an easy get-out of mine; but, boil me in oil if I can find anything else for Lathom ! Irvine, North Ayrshire: also has a namesake settlement in the Canadian province of Alberta.
When looking for something for Wendover, the above crossed my mind also. Seem to recall that in said comedy, a predictable and irresistible line was "Bend over, Wendover !" Wasn't there another pupil called Taplow? -- maybe borrowing settlement names for characters' surnames, was a thing here?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wallasey in Merseyside is another settlement that once had a gunpowder magazine.
The world's first passenger hovercraft service operated (briefly -- July to September 1962 -- it wasn't profitable) between Leasowe (adjacent to and effectively part of Wallasey), and Rhyl. There is still a passenger hovercraft service between Southsea and Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandudno also has a long pier.
John Griffiths
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The Great Orme headland at Llandudno is the home of a herd of wild goats, a species which experts believe also gave their name to 'the headland of the goats', aka Gateshead.
Springs Branch
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Gateshead is home to MetroCentre, the second-largest shopping mall in the UK.
The biggest UK shopping mall is Westfield London, located in Shepherd's Bush, West London.
The biggest UK shopping mall is Westfield London, located in Shepherd's Bush, West London.
EbbwJunction1
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Shepherd's Bush was often humorously referred to in the popular BBC series Absolutely Fabulous where the main character, Edina Monsoon, owns her home but prefers to say she lives in the more favourable, upscale Holland Park nearby.
Settlements bearing the name of "the land of clogs and tulips", without anything to hand in the way of explanations name-wise: there is Holland Park in London, as above; and in the outer regions of Essex, a "Holland" cluster. There's the would-be resort of Holland-on-Sea, pretty well part of the Clacton small conurbation: H.-on.S. was formerly the village of Little Holland -- with, to the north, Great Holland, still a village in its own right. (One supposes that if travelling due east from these Essex places, first landfall will be in the Netherlands.)
John Griffiths
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Hudswell in North Yorkshire also has a community-owned pub.
D6130
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The community-owned pub in Hudswell is named 'The George & Dragon'. There is another pub with the same name in Wentworth, South Yorkshire.
EbbwJunction1
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The Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth is a redundant Anglican church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Another redundant church in South Yorkshire in the care of the Trust is St John's Church, which is near the village of Throapham, on the road between Dinnington and Laughton en le Morthen.
John Griffiths
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A hoard of Roman coins was discovered during ploughing of a field in Throapham in 1864. One thousand or so coins - of a total 1500-2000 - passed into the hands of the landowner, Mrs Miles, and "excited in the mind of that lady a lively interest" such that she became an avid numismatist, buying many more Roman coins but unfortunately not keeping the new additions distinct from the Throapham findings in her collection. Mrs Miles lived at Firbeck Hall in the nearby village of Firbeck, Yorkshire.
EbbwJunction1
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An oval field in the village of Firbeck marks what was once the private racecourse of 18th century racehorse owner Anthony St Leger, who originated the St. Leger Stakes race, first held on Cantley Common in 1776. St Leger lived at Park Hill, an estate to the south of Firbeck, and was born in February 1731 at Grangemellon, Kildare, Ireland,
John Griffiths
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Portarlington, County Laois, also lies on the River Barrow, second longest river in Ireland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sketty, in the Swansea region, also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.
John Griffiths
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Sketty Hall was the home of copper magnate John Henry Vivian, whose family hailed from Cornwall (Pa Vivian was born in Truro).
I seem to remember my big brother lived on Sketty Road when he was a student at Swansea in the sixties.
I seem to remember my big brother lived on Sketty Road when he was a student at Swansea in the sixties.
D6130
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Lichfield in Staffordshire also has a cathedral with three spires.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunterton in Devon also was once administered by the Hundred of Lifton.
EbbwJunction1
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Dunterton lies on the B3362 (also named "The Vlg"), which runs between Tavistock and Launceston in Devon. Near to the southerly (Tavistock) end, the road runs through the hamlet of Chipshop in the civil parish of Lamerton. The hamlet consists of approximately a dozen residences and a pub, the "Copper Penny Inn" (formerly the "Chipshop Inn"), although the name of the hamlet is nothing to do with fish and chip shops. It comes from the time when miners in the local copper and arsenic mines were paid by scrip in the form of "chips" which they could exchange for goods at locations such as inns; the inn gained the name, and the hamlet grew up around it and took its name.
John Griffiths
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Milton Abbot, Devon, also sits on the B3362.
EbbwJunction1
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Endsleigh Cottage is in the parish of Milton Abbot. It was built between 1810 and 1816 by John Russell, the 6th Duke of Bedford as a private family residence to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville in the style of the picturesque movement; it is now a hotel. One of Jeffry Wyatville's early works (from 1792, albeit only attributed to him) is Wherstead Lodge in the village of Wherstead, Suffolk.
Wherstead has a pub called the Ostrich: a popular pub name, it seems, in East Anglia. Not only in those parts; Colnbrook, Berkshire -- near Slough -- has an ancient Ostrich Inn, scene of a gruesome 17th-century episode. A villainous couple, the landlord and his wife, had a system of murdering wealthy travellers staying there, by decapitation; to possess themselves of their belongings. After a score of some sixty victims, the couple were found out and duly hanged.