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Xenophon PCDGS
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Laverstoke in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Test.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rhigos in Rhondda Cynon Taf is another settlement where an Iron Age weapons hoard was discovered.
Near Rhigos is a Site of Special Scientific Interest where the rare marsh fritillary butterfly is to be found. Another highly-uncommon butterfly species in Britain, is the British subspecies of the swallowtail butterfly: restricted to the Norfolk Broads area, including on a reserve at Strumpshaw, a little way east of Norwich.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bawburgh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Yare.
We learn that according to the appropriate lore, St. Walstan, the 10th -- 11th century patron saint of farm labourers: was born possibly at Bawburgh; or possibly at Blythburgh, Suffolk -- between Halesworth and Southwold (and thus of significance to narrow-gauge-railway aficionados).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yoxford in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.
Every year on the first Sunday after Easter, a competition is held at Yoxford for eating brawn, known locally as pork cheese. A Brawn Queen is picked from the village: her first ceremonial task as Queen is to cut the cheese. A somewhat comparable annual event in another part of the country, is the World Pie-Eating Championship in Wigan, Lancashire. In recent decades at this happening, the contest has been changed from who can eat the most pies, to who can eat one pie in the quickest time (boring 
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D6130
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Whereas across the Pennines in West Yorkshire, Mytholmroyd hosts the World Dock Pudding Championships. (Google it!)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cornholme in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Calder.
EbbwJunction1
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St Luke's Church, Liverpool, more commonly known by locals as the bombed-out church, is a former Anglican parish Church. It was badly damaged by bombs during the Liverpool Blitz in 1941 and has been a roofless shell ever since, giving rise to its nickname. It now stands as a memorial to those who died in the war, and has also been hired as a venue for exhibitions and events. The city of Bristol has two bombed out churches - St Peter's Church in Castle Park and Temple Church, also known as Holy Cross Church, in Redcliffe. They were bombed and largely destroyed during the Bristol Blitz in 1940 and are now preserved as memorials.
Springs Branch
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Lambeth in South London was also the location of a shot tower, used for the manufacture of lead shot.
EbbwJunction1
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has it's headquarters in a large purpose-built building facing the River Thames on the Albert Embankment in Lambeth. They moved there in late 1982, having previously been based at 101 Piccadilly and prior to that at 22 Berners Street, Fizrovia; the original location was in Chancery Lane, London.
Springs Branch
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Fitzrovia is the location of an iconic London landmark - the BT Tower in Cleveland St.
Other "BT" telecommunications towers are dotted around the countryside, which had a similar initial purpose. These are generally not as iconic as London's specimen, but local landmarks nonetheless.
One of these is the Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower, at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire.
Other "BT" telecommunications towers are dotted around the countryside, which had a similar initial purpose. These are generally not as iconic as London's specimen, but local landmarks nonetheless.
One of these is the Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower, at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winchcombe in Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Cotswold Way.
EbbwJunction1
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St Peter's Church, Winchcombe is part of the Parish of Winchcombe; another church in the Parish is St Michael's in the hamlet of Stanley Pontlarge.
Hoping that more "church stuff" will pass muster -- can find not a lot else, concerning Stanley Pontlarge. S.P.'s now St. Michael's Church originally lacked a dedicatee; there seems to be an un-dedicated church, at Danby Wiske , North Yorkshire (near Northallerton).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ainderby Steeple in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Gilling East Wapentake.
EbbwJunction1
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The organ at St Helen's Church, Ainderby Steeple was built in 1889 by Forster and Andrews of Hull at a cost of £320 and was opened on 8th April 1890 by Robert Mack, organist of Catterick Parish Church. An earlier example of their work (dating from 1860) can be seen at St George and St Mary's Church, Church Gresley, Derbyshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kings Bromley in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.
Springs Branch
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According to wiki, various authorities play fast and loose with use of an apostrophe in Kings / King's Bromley's name.
Another settlement where variations have occurred with use of the possessive is in west London - it's Earl's Court, officially, still for the Tube station, but for the district itself, allegedly, it's now Earls Court.
Another settlement where variations have occurred with use of the possessive is in west London - it's Earl's Court, officially, still for the Tube station, but for the district itself, allegedly, it's now Earls Court.
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John Griffiths
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Earle Court, aka Kangaroo Valley in the 70s-90s, was home to Swedish songstress Jenny Lind (1820-87), who lent her name to a pub in Hampton Hill, SW London.
Hampton Hill is divided from the district of Hampton "plain and simple", by the Longford River: an artificial watercourse created in Charles I's time to supply water to nearby Hampton Court. There are in the British Isles, a number of settlements called Longford: one of which is the village of Longford, Derbyshire -- 11 miles due west of Derby.
John Griffiths
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Longford has "relatively few amenities" comments Wikipedia, rather sadly, but one of those few is The Ostrich Inn, a name it shares with an establishment in Fakenham, Norfolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sculthorpe in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.
John Griffiths
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Sculthorpe is home to the Hawk and Owl Trust, which runs the 81ha Sculthorpe Moor reserve, and also the Shapwick Moor nature reserve at Shapwick, Somerset.
EbbwJunction1
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Chelwood is also one of the nine Thankful Villages in Somerset where all the men returned from the First World War; four went and four returned.