As per the 2011 census, Brighton and Norwich would appear to be rival claimants to the status of the least-religious city in England: both with much higher proportions of the inhabitants professing no religious belief or allegiance, than the national average therefor of 25%. (It's said that in the 2001 census, 2.6% of Brightonians claimed to be adherents of the Star Wars Jedi religion.)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Arreton on the Isle of Wight also has a brass rubbing centre.
DerekC
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Arreton, in common with a large number of manors and estates across the south of England, was once held by Aethelweard, the younger son of Alfred the Great. One of the manors he owned was "Meon" - probably West Meon in Hampshire.
One of West Meon's pubs is the Thomas Lord -- called after the gentleman of that name (1755 -- 1832) who founded Lord's cricket ground in London; and went to live in his retirement, in West Meon. The Thomas Lord advertises itself as dog-friendly; as does the First In Last Out pub in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
D6130
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Bragar on the Isle of Lewis also has a whalebone arch.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carloway on the Isle of Lewis also lies on the route of the A858 road.
Carloway is known also -- and "officially" -- by its Gaelic equivalent, Carlabhagh. Another settlement with alternative -- and recognisably similar -- "English" and "local-tongue" names, both in official use, is Limerick (Irish, Luimneach).
Xenophon PCDGS
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South Kensington in London also has a noted museum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Peper Harow in Surrey was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Godalming.
Lazonby, Cumbria, also has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Reading the name "Peper Harow" always has me thinking, "a seriously bad speller has been involved here at some point". Wiki gives a bunch of possible theories for the name's derivation, result thereof being -- to me, anyway -- confusion.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ulverston in Cumbria also holds a Livestock Auction Market.
John Griffiths
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Stan Laurel (Stanley Jefferson) was born in Ulverston but lived for much of his youth in North Shields on Tyneside, where his father, Arthur Jefferson, was a well-known theatrical entrepreneur. There is a statue of Stan in Dockwray Square, where they lived.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hebburn in Tyne and Wear also lies on the line of the River Tyne.
John Griffiths
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Blackpool in Lancashire also has an Orange Lodge.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chester also has a zoo.
D6130
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Chichester also has a cathedral with a detached bell tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Exeter in Devon also has a ship canal.
EbbwJunction1
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The Church of St Mary Steps is a Grade I Listed church in the city of Exeter. It dates from about 1150 and was rebuilt in the 15th century and then, in the late 19th century, restored by the architect Edward Ashworth (1814 – 1896). He was an English artist and architect from Devon, considered to be the West Country's leading ecclesiastical architect. Another restoration project carried out by him was St Michael and All Angels Church, a Grade II listed building in Bude, Cornwall. It was originally built in 1834 by George Wightwick for Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, 10th Baronet as a Chapel of Ease to Stratton Parish Church, and expanded in 1878 for Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, 11th Baronet. It became a listed building in 1985.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stratton in Cornwall also lies on the line of the River Strat.
EbbwJunction1
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Stratton lies on the line of the A39 road; travelling north of Stratton, we pass through the hamlet of Bush.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Poughill in Cornwall was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Stratton.
Also with a church dedicated to St. Olaf (not a common dedicatee of churches in Britain, even under the occasional "St. Olave" alias), is Wasdale Head, Cumbria (among some of the Lake District's highest peaks). St. Olaf's, Wasdale Head, is claimed to be the smallest church in England.
D6130
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The Wasdale Head Inn is a well-known climbers' and walkers' pub....as is the Clachaig Inn at Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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North Togston in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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John P H Clark was an expert on fourteenth centuery contemplative writers. Born in Horsham, Sussex, he was vicar of Longframlington in the mid 20th century (vagueish, I know, but Google books doesn't give much leeway).
Nothing like a good fourteenth century contemplative writer... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle features, in the Sherlock Holmes story The Five Orange Pips, the fictional Openshaw family, prominent citizens of Horsham. At one point in Doyle's medieval-times historical novels telling of the daring deeds of Sir Nigel Loring and Alleyne Edricson -- which some people think are terrific; others, such as myself, rate them less highly -- an episode occurs near the Channel Island of Sark. That isle nowadays reckoned an idyllic, if politically archaic, place; but Doyle has it six hundred years ago, as a nest of vicious pirates (whether he's historically accurate here or not, I wouldn't know).
John Griffiths
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Sibyl Hathaway (1884-1974) was the redoubtable (=bossy & autocratic) Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death, in what has been called Europe's last feudal regime. Her second marriage was celebrate d in the London district of St Marylebone.