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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mangotsfield in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Barton-Regis.

 

[Calthrop]

Louth, Lincolnshire, also has a church dedicated to St. James.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarborough in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

A "yarborough" in bridge, means a hand in which no card is higher than a 9. Derby also has a meaning, by extension, in the games-and-sports area: a "local derby" -- keenly contested game between teams from two settlements geographically close to each other. I learn that the most favoured explanation for this expression comes from the old tradition of "Shrovetide football": happening town-wide, between the inhabitants of one and another part of town, an infinite number may take part, next to no rules. The city of Derby apparently went in for this in an especially uninhibited way, between the men of its parish of All Saints, and those of St. Peter's ditto: especially in the 18th and early 19th centuries -- these games were so lively that the local authorities tried, for long and not very successfully, to suppress them.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wilton, Wiltshire is also a place that is not, or no longer, the county town or administrative centre of a county named after it.

 

[Calthrop]

Tisbury, Wiltshire, also lies on the River Nadder.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westbury-on-Trym in the Bristol region also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

 

[Springs Branch]

Avon Country Markets is a co-operative of local farmers' and craft-style markets in South Gloucester, North Somerset and Bristol.

Markets are held in the Methodist Church Hall at Westbury-on-Trym on Friday mornings; also on the 4th Saturday of the month at Queen Square in Clevedon, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skegness in Lincolnshire also has a clock tower.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Skegness is home to Skegness Town AFC, which plays at the Vertigo Stadium on Wainfleet Road; known as The Lilywhites, the club was founded in 1947 and plays in the United Counties League. Another club in the same league is Deeping Rangers FC, who are based at Outgang Road, Market Deeping, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duddington in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[Spamcan81]

Harringworth has a viaduct that crosses the River Welland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brigstock in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Corby.

 

[John Griffiths]

Pubs named The Green Dragon are displaying loyalty to the early of Pembroke. Brigstock has one, as does Flaunden, Hertfordshire.

 

[Calthrop]

From pubs to churches: Chulmleigh, North Devon, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Chulmleigh is one of the fixtures of South Oxfordshire Amateurs Cricket Club's annual Western tour. Another is Instow

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Possibly the most famous resident of Instow was David Robert Shepherd MBE (1940 – 2009). He played County Cricket for Gloucestershire and, after retiring as a player, became one of the cricket world's best-known Umpires. Born in Bideford in Devon, he retired to live in Instow, occasionally working in his brother's post office.

 

[Calthrop]

Some have suggested that Bideford's expansion and increasing popularity as a holiday destination, largely dated from and was owed to the publication in 1855 of the historical thriller / romance Westward Ho ! -- much of it set around Bideford -- by Charles Kingsley, who lived in the area. And of course, a bit later on there arose -- a little way away, on the coast -- a settlement (intended holiday resort) actually called Westward Ho! (I tried Kingsley's book, and found it disappointing; but that is my reaction to many books / authors.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In one of his books, Bill Bryson says that he refused to take seriously anywhere that had an exclamation mark as part of it's name.

On a serious note, though, adapted Bailey Bridges were tested at Westward Ho! as part of the Mulberry Harbour project in 1944. Another part of the project were Phoenixes, which were reinforced concrete caissons constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain. They were collected and sunk at Dungeness in Kent and Pagham in West Sussex prior to D-Day.

 

[Calthrop]

Huntington, Herefordshire -- west of Kington, on the Welsh border -- also has a church dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winforton in Herefordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kington Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Winforton lies on the A438, which crosses the border into Wales and passes through Clyro, Powys soon afterwards.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Clyro's local "big house", Clyro Court, was -- quoting Wiki -- "built by Thomas Mynors Baskerville in 1839. It is said that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a family friend and visitor, with obvious consequences." If so, then just to a certain extent: concerning the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles: if the name of the noble family came from this source; it is reckoned that it is in Norfolk that Doyle heard a tale which inspired for him, the idea of the huge, sinister, ?ghostly hound; and the story itself of course takes place on Dartmoor, not far from Princetown, West Devon.

"Pipped at the post !"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clyro's local "big house", Clyro Court, was -- quoting Wiki -- "built by Thomas Mynors Baskerville in 1839. It is said that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a family friend and visitor, with obvious consequences." If so, then just to a certain extent: concerning the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles: if the name of the noble family came from this source; it is reckoned that it is in Norfolk that Doyle heard a tale which inspired for him, the idea of the huge, sinister, ?ghostly hound; and the story itself of course takes place on Dartmoor, not far from Princetown, West Devon.

Macclesfield was the settlement in the previous posting.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

A member (well, two) of Joy Division was/were also born in Broughton, Salford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rawtenstall in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rawtenstall is also home to Rossendale RFC, who play at Marl Pits in the town and compete in the Regional 1 North West League. Another club in that league are Wirral RFC, who are based in Thornton Common Road, Clatterbridge, Wirral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Higher Bebington in Wirral also lies on the route of the B5151 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning Higher and neighbouring Lower Bebington; find self reduced to that Battle of Brunanburh, 937 AD., which we've had before and not very long ago: broadly speaking, Anglo-Saxons versus Gaels and Norsemen -- the Anglo-Saxons won. A historically important fight; but much uncertainty as to just where in northern Great Britain it took place. One suggestion is, the Bebingtons (specifically, what is now Brackenwood golf course there): another, Bromborough "just round the corner"; and a surreal range of other suggestions, including Barton-upon-Humber (Lincolnshire), Burnley (Lancashire), Heysham (ditto), Lanchester (County Durham) -- my choice at random, and even near Lockerbie, southern Scotland.