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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Widley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Portsdown.

 

[Calthrop]

Liphook, Hampshire, also lies on the A3 / M3 road route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunfermline in Fife also has an Amateur Dramatic Society.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdour, Fife, is also mentioned in the tragic but slightly bonkers ballad of Sir Patrick Spens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkcaldy in Fife also lies on the route of the A921 road.

 

[Calthrop]

A favourite Kirkcaldy-related item of "popular culture" is the light-hearted poem in Scots, The Boy in the Train: written shortly pre-World War I -- the only achievement of any note, by one Mary Campbell Smith, 1869 -- 1960, born in Tongland, Dumfries & Galloway. The poem gives a running commentary on things seen / experienced by one whom some would regard as an annoyingly garrulous small boy, when travelling eastward by train toward Kirkcaldy: ending with a reference to the characteristic penetrating smell from the town's linoleum factories --

For I ken mysel' by the queer-like smell / That the next stop's Kirkcaldy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkcudbright in Dumfries & Galloway also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

[Calthrop]

Glenlochar, Dumfries & Galloway -- near Castle Douglas -- also lies on the River Dee.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hmm. Do we need a different associative reason? It's getting a little reminiscent of that beloved BBC chat show Dee Time with Simon Dee.

 

[Calthrop]

Hmm. Do we need a different associative reason? It's getting a little reminiscent of that beloved BBC chat show Dee Time with Simon Dee.

Sorry -- I overlooked the fact that the previous association had also involved said river. Post struck out -- amended follow-on from Kirkcudbright: Auchencairn (Dumfries & Galloway) also lies on the A711 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Resisting the temptation to list Auchenshoogle, home of The Broons and Oor Wullie from the Sunday Post, as the associated place, I instead point out that Elizabeth Gaskell spent a month in Auchencairn in 1859; she died, suddenly, in Holybourne, Hampshire, in 1865, while visiting a house she had bought that year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carnoustie in Angus also has a place of worship named Church of the Holy Rood.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Carnoustie is the home of a golf course which has hosted the Open Championship; the event started in Prestwick in 1860.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kingussie in Inverness-shire was also an early period created Burgh of Barony.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although the village is more famous for its Shinty club, it also has a successful football side which plays its games in the local Strathspey & Badenoch Welfare Football Association. The 2022 champions were Boat of Garten Ospreys, who play at Redhaven Park, Boat of Garten.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Columba's, Chester was designed by the ecclesiastical architect Francis Prichard (1919 – 2008) and was built between 1964 and 1965. Another of Francis Pritchard's works was St Agnes Church, Huyton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Litherland in Merseyside was also once administered by the Hundred of West Derby.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Litherland Gala was staged every year and was famous for the procession of shire horses and floats from the docks, which ended at the Bryant & May sports field in Linacre Road, Litherland. The match-making company Bryant & May had been formed in 1843 by two Quakers, William Bryant and Francis May, to trade in general merchandise. The manufacture of matches began in 1850, and this was carried out at various locations, including from 1861 a factory at Fairfield Road, Bow, East London.

 

[John Griffiths]

The friction match was invented, however, by John Walker (1781-1859), a chemist and druggist of Stockton-on-Tees.

 

[Calthrop]

Stockton-on-Tees; and Marlborough, Wiltshire; would seem to be rivals for the honour of owning the widest High Street in the U.K.

 

[John Griffiths]

William Wright Tilley, b. Weston under Welland, Northants, trained as a chef and confectioner, then became head of kitchens at Marlborough College in the 1880s. In the early 90s he bought a confectioners and catering business in Morpeth, Northumberland; a few years later starting a restaurant in Newcastle which was The place to be until he sold it in 1920.

 

[Calthrop]

Glasgow also has a museum dedicated to the subject of bagpipes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kew in south west London also has a noted botanical garden.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The headquarters of the fashion clothing retailer Jigsaw were previously in Mortlake Road, Kew; they are currently at Water Lane, Richmond.

 

[John Griffiths]

The excellent White Cross pub overlooks the Thames at the bottom of Water Lane; another pub of the same name trades in Lancaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gateshead in Tyne and Wear also has a noted Millenium Bridge.

 

[Intercity110]

coventry also has a costco

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Holy Trinity Church, Coventry dates from the 12th century and is the only Medieval church in Coventry that is still complete. It was restored in 1665 – 1668, and the tower was recased in 1826 by the English architect Thomas Rickman (1776 – 1841). Another of his works is St Peter ad Vincula Church, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire.

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[Calthrop]

Birmingham is also twinned with a city in the German state of Sachsen. Coventry's "twin" is Dresden (touchingly -- each suffered extreme World War II bombing damage inflicted by the other's country); Birmingham's is Leipzig.