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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Publow in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Keynsham.

 

[Calthrop]

The jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk (1929 -- 2014) is buried in Publow's parish church. He was born in Pensford, Somerset, very close by.

 

[D6130]

Hengoed in South Wales is also overlooked by a tall, disused stone-arched former railway viaduct.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanvabon in Caerphilly County Borough was also once administered by the Hundred of Caerphilly.

 

[John Griffiths]

Nelson is a village in the parish of Llanfabon, named for the Nelson Arms where, it is said, the naval hero and Emma Hamilton stayed after a visit to the Cyfarthfa ironworks. Similarly, but with one extra step, Nelson in Lancashire is named after the Nelson Inn station, named after the Nelson Inn, named after the naval hero. It is not recorded whether or not Horatio and Emma trysted there.

 

[Calthrop]

Amberley, West Sussex; also has a namesake settlement in South Island, New Zealand.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brockham, Surrey, is also the site of former chalk quarries (with a disused industrial narrow gauge railway which was bought up by the Amberley Museum of Many Names in 1982). I used to go there a bit as a teenager.

 

[DerekC]

Responding to a point made a few days ago, the Royal Oak pub at Brockham could be said to commemorate the Royalist side in the English Civil War. The Oliver Cromwell in St Ives, Cambridgeshire on the other hand, quite definitely commemorates the other.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Responding to a point made a few days ago, the Royal Oak pub at Brockham could be said to commemorate the Royalist side in the English Civil War. The Oliver Cromwell in St Ives, Cambridgeshire on the other hand, quite definitely commemorates the other.

But -- that area was Noll's original native patch: you'd expect one called after him there, if anywhere ... Maybe perversely, re the Civil War I tend to sympathise with the "right-but-repulsive" side -- concerning that conflict, though: the ones I really feel kinship with, are the quite large number who embraced what was called the Kyhoysasist heresy (acronym for "Keep your head on your shoulders, and so I shall too"): minimal involvement, do the minimum you're forced to do by those who happen to be occupying where you live, hope the area doesn't change hands too often; and wish heartily that all the fanatics would push off to Terra Australis Incognita and fight it out down there.

Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

Godmanchester is one of various points of access to England's largest continuous meadow area, Portholme (a National Conservation Review site and Special Area of Conservation). Another large meadowland site of biological importance -- a Site of Special Scientific Interest -- with a name somewhat akin: is Port Meadow at Oxford.

 

[John Griffiths]

In Oxford in 1934 walls were built across streets to separate the new council-built Cutteslowe estate from nearby private housing. A similar concrete manifestation of class division was a wall built in Bromley to separate the privately owned Alexandra Road area from the London County Council's Downham estate.

 

[John Griffiths]

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury in Kent also has an historical connection to the See of Rochester.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a much-loved ballad -- author unknown -- about interaction between King John, the Abbot (sic) of Canterbury, and said dignitary's shepherd. Another and more recent example, by Rudyard Kipling, of such -- king travelling in his realm to see what's going on; rewarding honest folk and curbing abuse by the less-honest -- is King Henry VII and the Shipwrights: whose action takes place at what is now Hamble-le-Rice, Hants. -- near Southampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Swanwick in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Hamble.

 

[D6130]

Caton in Lancashire also had a brickworks with an ariel ropeway conveying clay from the pits to the factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitstable in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Immaculate.

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Whitstable's "twin" is Borken; Rochdale's is Bielefeld.

 

[John Griffiths]

The River Roch in central Rochdale was culverted in the early 20th century, but restored to the open air in 2015. The River Frome in central Bristol was likewise culverted in 1867; part of it was reopened to the skies in 1971 when the roadway on top collapsed. Sadly the reopening was not made permanent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Douglas in the Isle of Man also has a camera obscura that is open to the public.

 

[John Griffiths]

Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was also made a city in 2022 to mark the Platinum Jubilee of the late queen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newmarket in Suffolk also has a Group 1 rated racecourse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newmarket sausages have Protected Geographical Indication status (ie must be made in or in the vicinity of the place named). Another PGI product made in the UK is Stornoway black pudding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Peter Port in Guernsey is another offshore island settlement to have an RNLI Severn-Class lifeboat.

 

[Calthrop]

The small island of Herm, just east of Guernsey -- permanent population about 65 -- is officially part of the parish of St. Peter Port.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tregiffian in Cornwall also has an example of a Mesolithic period chamber tomb.

 

[Calthrop]

John le Carre (1931 -- 2020), celebrated spy-fiction author, lived for many years at Tregiffian -- in fact, died following from a fall, there. He was born in Poole, Dorset. (I'm hard to please re fiction -- have found Le Carre and his Smiley-and-Karla stuff, anaesthetically boring; I know that there are millions of impassioned devotees thereof !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sidmouth in Devon also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[John Griffiths]

Poet Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) lived at Sidmouth from 1833 to 1835 before moving with her family to Wimpole Street in central London. From 1838 To 1841 they lived in Torquay, an unfortunate period in which one of her brothers died of fever in Jamaica and another drowned in a boating accident at Torquay. The family returned to Wimpole Street.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abbotskerswell in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Haytor.