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Xenophon PCDGS
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Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Harrogate in North Yorkshire also hosts a flower show.
Springs Branch
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There is also a branch of Betty's Tea Rooms at Northallerton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thrimbleby in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northallerton Poor Law Union.
I can find no indication anywhere, of a settlement called Thrimbleby. Am figuring that Thimbleby, some miles east of Northallerton, is meant. Pretty well all info about this village, would seem to concern the adjacent imposing Thimbleby Hall, and its estate: a working estate whose doings include forestry, farming, and grouse moors. This grouse-shooting activity, will involve red grouse; but one of the few areas in England where the rarer black grouse is still found, is not hugely far to the north-west -- Upper Teesdale, which includes the village of Newbiggin, County Durham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wikipedia states that Thrimbleby in North Yorkshire is a small village and a civil parish that had a population of 258 in the 2011 census.
Not doubting you: but I seem unable to find via that avenue, any mention of Thrimbleby-with-an-"r". What to do? I'll strike out my post #29,676 if you wish.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Messaging you from Manchester Royal Infirmary to say please let your last posting stand. I am now wondering if the similarly named village in Licolnshire has been the source of this disquiet.
I am to return to this hospital to the Department of Vascular Surgery on Friday, 24th March when today's testing, plus those in the last six months will make for my consultant to decide what particular avenue to proceed along.
UPDATE....All tests today were not the end of this hospital visit and they insist that I return at 0915 on Friday morning. My taxi firm will be delighted at that news!!!
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Let the quiz continue from this posting.
John Griffiths
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Newbiggin in Durham shares its name with Newbiggin in neighbouring Northumberland.
Best wishes to Xenophon for Friday and for 24 March.
Best wishes to Xenophon for Friday and for 24 March.
Springs Branch
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According to the Wikipedia entry for Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, "The 13th century Parish Church of St Bartholomew, bleakly situated against a North Sea backdrop at Church Point, contains a notable collection of medieval gravestones."
Sounds like a scene for either a M.R. James ghost story, or a grisy murder in the TV series Vera.
Another settlement which has had a church dedicated to St Bartholomew (this one now substantially rebuilt following a suspicious fire in 1990 - allegedly started by local satanists, in true M.R. James style) is Westhoughton, Greater Manchester.
Sounds like a scene for either a M.R. James ghost story, or a grisy murder in the TV series Vera.
Another settlement which has had a church dedicated to St Bartholomew (this one now substantially rebuilt following a suspicious fire in 1990 - allegedly started by local satanists, in true M.R. James style) is Westhoughton, Greater Manchester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bromsgrove in Worcestershire also has historical connections to the nail-making trade.
The "Lord of the Rings" man to the rescue again -- J.R.R. Tolkien's mother Mabel Tolkien (1870 -- 1904) is buried at Bromsgrove. She died early and rather tragically: immediate cause, complications of diabetes -- her actual death was in the family's then dwelling at Rednal, West Midlands; not many miles away.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Belper in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carrickmore in County Tyrone also has a church that is dedicated to St Colmcilles.
Springs Branch
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Billingham in Co. Durham is also located at latitude 54° 36' N.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Runcorn is another settlement with links to the chemical industry.
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Liverpool is also on the river mersey (have i got this right?)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Conwy also has an under-river road tunnel.
Conwy has -- in its older form of "Conway" -- namesake settlements in various parts of the English-speaking world. One such is in the US State of New Hampshire; wherein is also a settlement identically-named with Plaistow, London Borough of Newham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Up Hatherley in Gloucestershire also has a church with a jointly vested dedication to St Philip and St James.
Michael "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards, celebrated eccentric Olympic ski-jumper, was born in Up Hatherley. Among his feats has been a ski-jump for charity, over ten cars, using a ski-jump made of scaffolding -- this having been accomplished at Christchurch, Dorset.
John Griffiths
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Christchurch Priory church is said to be the longest church in England, at 95 metres. I can't find a similar claim for the shortest, but the smallest is said to be St Beuno's at Culbone, Somerset, 10.7 metres long.
The steep woods near Culbone have been used in past centuries, as a place of confinement for prisoners taken in various foreign wars. The same function has been performed at various times in history, by the castle at Portchester, Hampshire (near Portsmouth).