John Griffiths
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Dulwich was immortalised by PG Wodehouse as 'Valley Fields' in some of his stories, fondly so as Plum had enjoyed his time at Dulwich College. He was born in 1881 in Guildford, Surrey.
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EbbwJunction1
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The Guildford Flames ice hockey team is based at the Spectrum Leisure Centre, Guildford and compete in the top-tier of hockey in the United Kingdom, the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL). There are currently ten teams in the league, another of which is the Fife Flyers. They are the oldest professional ice hockey club in the UK, established in 1938, and play their home games at the Fife Ice Arena in Kirkaldy.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dornoch in Sutherland was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of King Charles I.
Rosamunde Pilcher (1924 -- 2019), author of many not-very-profound but well-crafted novels (largely romances): set her last-published novel, Winter Solstice, identifiably in and around Dornoch -- the town fictionalised as "Creagan". Ms. Pilcher was born in Lelant, Cornwall.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Redruth in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Uny.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clondra in County Longford also lies on the line of the Royal Canal.
Clondra is in fact the western extremity of the Royal Canal, where it joins the River Shannon. Associated with this -- the name Richmond has a close connection with Clondra: the canal / river waterway junction point, being called Richmond Harbour -- hard by, have been the industrial premises Richmond Mills; the name bestowed, one understands, in honour of the Duke of Richmond, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when the Royal Canal was opened in 1817. If I'm right, the ducal Richmond refers to Richmond-upon-Thames, now a London Borough.
John Griffiths
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I think it is Richmond in Yorkshire, if Professor Wiki is up on his noble families.
"Whichever" -- gave Richard III the willies, according to Shakespeare (of course, Shakey knew what side his bread was buttered).
My apologies -- on reflection: I find the Wiki article on the dukedom, intricate and not altogether clear on this point: but in so far as I can make any sense of it re the point, Yorkshire would indeed seem to be referred to, rather than upon-Thames. For myself, I'm not bothered as to which Richmond may be followed-on from; would anyone wish to adjudge?
John Griffiths
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I'm from the local authority so woefully misnamed, as Richmond is such an insignificant portion of it, and it would have been more justly named after its major centre, of great cultural and sporting renown, Twickenham. Yet the gin-soaked Surrey types were able to wreak their cultural appropriations across the Thames! Yorkshire let it be!
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John Griffiths
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Frome, Somerset, also won an Academy of Urbanism Great Town award, in 2013.
Springs Branch
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Chedworth, Gloucestershire, also has a thoroughfare named Cheap Street.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lullingstone in Kent also has the remains of a noted Roman villa.
Lullingstone has, at the far northern end of Buckinghamshire, a pair of near-namesakes -- close neighbours of each other -- whose names have always delighted me: Lillingstone Lovell and Lillingstone Dayrell. (Have chosen Lovell, because it seems to feature slightly more "stuff to tell about", than its neighbour.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Redenhall in Norfolk also has a church with the long dedication title of Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Redenhall is only just within its county of Norfolk; the River Waveney, flowing nearby, marks the boundary with Suffolk. Similarly, Woolsthorpe by Belvoir (Lincolnshire) is only just within its county: the village of "just plain" Belvoir, a mile or so to the west, is in Leicestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stroxton in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the large area encompass of the ancient Hundred of Winniebriggs and Threo,
You've got me wondering now, about Winnie Briggs -- maybe a chum of Mavis Enderby (also Lincolnshire)?
As well as Stroxton: Selsley, Gloucestershire (near Stroud) also has a church dedicated to All Saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kersal in Greater Manchester was also a place where a Chartist Rally was held.
John Griffiths
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In the 17th and 18th century racing took place at Kersal during Whit Week; another popular attraction was foot racing by naked males, popular with local women. One such athlete was army officer Roger Aytoun, known as 'Spanking Roger', whose racing prowess gained him the hand of 65-year-old and rich widow Barbara Minshull. The couple lived at Moston, Lancashire, and Aytoun was able to develop much of the modern city centre of Manchester - between Piccadilly, Portland Street, Princess Street and the River Medlock - on Minshull land acquired as a result of his timely match.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Woking in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St Dunstan.
DerekC
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Sean Henry, said to be the greatest living sculptor of real people in the UK, was born in Woking but now lives in Warnford, Hampshire.
Watercress -- a speciality of these parts -- is grown around Warnford; although that activity just there, is at a bit of a low ebb at present. Big on the local watercress scene, is New Alresford, Hampshire (as railway enthusiasts know); the town even holds annually, on the third Sunday in May, a Watercress Festival "to celebrate all things watercress" -- this including a watercress-eating contest.
D6130
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Cricket commentator and author John Arlott lived for many years in New Alresford, until retiring to Alderney in the Channel Islands in the early 1980s. He was born in Basingstoke in 1914.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pamber Heath in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basingstoke Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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There is a village link minibus service which serves Pamber Heath, Silchester and Mortimer West End; it is necessary to pre-book this service by contacting Hampshire County Council.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cliddesden in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Basingstoke.