John Griffiths
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Peldon in Essex also suffered significant damage in the Colchester Earthquake of 22 April 1884.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Layer de la Haye in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Winstree.
EbbwJunction1
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Layer de la Haye is among the villages which suffered damage from the Colchester earthquake, also known as the Great English earthquake, which occurred on the morning of 22 April 1884 at 9:18 am. It was centred mainly in the villages of Wivenhoe, Abberton, Langhoe and Peldon, causing the surrounding area to rise and fall violently as the waves spread, lasting for around 20 seconds. Measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, the effects were felt across England, as well as in northern France and Belgium.
(I've never heard of it ... every day's a school day!)
(I've never heard of it ... every day's a school day!)
Xenophon PCDGS
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I think the required settlement is that of ..... Langenhoe.
All my reseaches into Langhoe came to naught, the nearest being that of Langho on the way to Whalley in Lancashire.
EbbwJunction1
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I'll delete my answer, as I missed the previous offering that mentioned Peldon - my apologies.
A recent (December 2022) survey found that Layer-De-La-Haye, with an overall average price of £444,714 was more expensive than nearby Lexden (£371,319), Stanway (£309,215) and Colchester (£273,543).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldham in Essex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lexden.
EbbwJunction1
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Aldham's parish church is dedicated to St Margaret and St Catherine and is a Grade II* Listed building. It was designed between 1854 and 1855 by Edward C Hakewill (1816–1872) who has previously (between 1845 and 1848) also designed the magnificent church of St John of Jerusalem, South Hackney.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Austell in Cornwall is another settlement where almshouses were established.
EbbwJunction1
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The flagship beer of the St Austell Brewery is St Austell Tribute; further around the Cornish coast is Rock, where the Sharp's Brewery still brews Doom Bar Bitter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Camelford (not unsurprisingly) also lies on the line of the River Camel.
EbbwJunction1
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St Thomas of Canterbury's Church, Camelford is in the Church of England Diocese of Truro; it is a chapel-of-ease to the parish church, which is located in Lanteglos-by-Camelford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Trevalga in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Lesnewth.
Springs Branch
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Kilwinning in North Ayrshire is also located at longitude 4° 43' W.
D6130
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Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire also has a restored - but partly ruined - priory church.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Grassington in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Wharfe.
Springs Branch
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Grassington was used as the filming location for the fictional town of Darrowby in the Channel 5 TV series All Creatures Great and Small.
In real life, the vet James Wight, whose life the James Herriot books were based on, lived and practiced in Thirsk, North Yorks.
In real life, the vet James Wight, whose life the James Herriot books were based on, lived and practiced in Thirsk, North Yorks.
Ayman Ilham
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Saffron Walden, Essex also has a Grade I Listed Church called "St Mary's"
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stowmarket in Suffolk is another settlement where a Corn Exchange was established.
The poet John Milton (1608 -- 74) made quite numerous visits to Stowmarket; with his tutor, Dr. Thomas Young, having become vicar of the town from 1628. Although Milton lived for most of his life in London: he resided briefly in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, while the 1665 Great Plague was at its height in the capital.
Ayman Ilham
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Southam, Warwickshire is another sub-10k population settlement that HS2 will bypass through.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Napton on the Hill in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Stowe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Preesall in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.
Preesall's name is reckoned derived from the Old Norse, meaning "a hill and a heath". However; this settlement has been in the past, a site for the extraction of salt -- hence its punning Latin motto, Prae Salem Notanda = "famed for salt". Another place renowned for the getting of salt -- Northwich, Cheshire -- also has a Latin motto referring to that commodity: Sal est Vita = "Salt is life".
Ayman Ilham
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Northwich has the possibility of being confused with Norwich, Norfolk due to how strikingly similar their names are; in fact they have equally similar etymologies as well, given the Nor- in Norwich is derived from 'North' and of course, the North- in Northwich does indeed mean 'North'.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liverpool also has an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Ayman Ilham
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(Kingston-upon-)Hull is also a major port city, which still operates passenger ferry services internationally.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Orleton in Herefordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wolphy.
I'm sure you dream this stuff up -- Wolphy?? -- no, there's evidence in great abundance that old-time England was "stranger than fiction" ...
Little Thetford, Cambridgeshiire -- a short way south of Ely -- also has a church dedicated to St. George.