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[Calthrop]

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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An interesting inhabitant of Hampton Lucy was the Rev. Canon Osbert Mordaunt, who per Wiki, was for twenty years the proprietor of the village public house, and rector of the village from 1874 to 1922 (it's not made clear whether he carried on both occupations simultaneously, but one can hope). Another jovial and hospitable clerical gentleman -- whom I have used previously in the game -- was the Rev. John Hodges, 17th-century rector of Shackerstone, Leicestershire; who under the Cromwellian regime got into trouble for being generally more jolly than was seemly for one of his calling; plus, for entertaining Royalist sympathies.

 

[John Griffiths]

Moira, Leics, also lies on the Ashby Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki: "In 2022, residents [of Moira] were amused when a road sign spelled the name "Moria", suggesting a link with Tolkien's fictional Middle-Earth." I have seen the same mistake elsewhere: Tolkien's Moria being the Dwarves' extensive and ambitious -- and scary and goblin-infested -- mine-workings under the Misty Mountains. Another reckonable Tolkien / real world crossover is Allerton Bywater, West Yorkshire -- a little way east of Leeds. The second word thereof, has a parallel in the hobbits' Shire: the village of Bywater, close by that of Hobbiton -- a number of the principal hobbit characters live in one or the other.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Team Benefice of Allerton Bywater, Kippax and Swillington includes the churches of St Mary the Less Allerton Bywater, St Mary's Kippax and St Mary's Swillington; they serve the communities of Allerton Bywater, Kippax, Great Preston, Little Preston and Swillington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barwick-in-Elmet in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the lower-division of the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

The suite My Native Heath, composed about a hundred years ago by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood: includes an item called Barwick Green -- definitely referencing Barwick-in-Elmet; called a "maypole dance" -- allusion to Barwick's village green, where there occur big "maypole" doings at Spring Bank Holiday. Another item in the suite is Knaresborough [North Yorkshire] Status. (The theme tune to radio's The Archers, is from Barwick Green.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Commercial (formerly Borough Bailiff) public house, owned by the Samuel Smith Old Brewery, is the oldest pub in Knaresborough. Another Sam Smith's pub in North Yorkshire is The Sun Inn, Long Marston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penarth in Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mumbles in Swansea Bay also has a pier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire was also the scene of a lifeboat disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

Penclawdd, on the Gower Peninsula (County of Swansea) has also featured recently on Rick Stein's Seafood Journeys on the TV "Food Network".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hest Bank in Lancashire is also a town with cockle industry connections.

 

[Intercity110]

Gateshead also has a swing bridge

 

[John Griffiths]

Thora Hird lived at Best Bank in her youth; she died in 2003, a resident at Brinsworth House, the entertainment industry retirement and care home in Twickenham, west London.

 

[John Griffiths]

William Booth, a Methodist New Connexion preacher and later founder of the Salvation Army, lived at 15 Woodbine Terrace Gateshead 1858-61. He was born in Sneinton, Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lenton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Radford Poor Law Union.

 

[Intercity110]

birmingham also has a hospital named after queen elizabeth II

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Herbert Manzoni (1899-1972) ,Birmingham's influential City Engineer and designer of its Ringway scheme, was born in Birkenhead.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northenden in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Mersey.

 

[Calthrop]

Northenden has had a pub -- impressive, and of fairly long-ago origin -- called the Tatton Arms; now, alas, closed and derelict and likely to be demolished to make way for future developments. Warrington, Cheshire -- not very far away -- has a (still active) pub with the rather similar name of the Hatton Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marlow in Buckinghamshire also has a rowing club.

 

[John Griffiths]

Marple in the Borough of Stockport also shares its name with a fictional detective, albeit not so hard-bitten as Marlow.

 

[Calthrop]

Continuing with the detective-fiction theme (but about "authors rather than fictional 'tecs" -- so, hopefully, a different-enough association to pass muster) -- the crime-mystery-novels author Joyce Porter (1924 -- 90) was born in Marple; she spent the last years of her life in Longbridge Deverill, Wlltshire -- near Warminster. (Porter's most acclaimed detective, DCI Wilfred Dover, is interestingly different: in that whereas most heroes / anti-heroes in this genre have at least some admirable qualities, Dover is frankly a pretty awful human being -- he's lazy, slovenly, corrupt, a bully and a "user", and frankly not all that bright, and not greatly competent at his job; but he does manage to get things right, enough of the time to avoid the wrath of higher authority.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milton Lilbourne in Wiltshire also has a Bronze Age bell barrow within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

The "Lilbourne" part of Milton Lilbourne is reckoned to be derived from Lillebonne -- name of the local lords of the manor. A different derivation is seen for Lilbourne, Northants. (near Rugby -- just on the Northants. side of the border between that county, and Warwickshire). This Lilbourne is thought to come from "Lilla's stream" (Lilla presumably a local Anglo-Saxon chieftain); or perhaps the name, Lille, of the stream itself.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chesham Bois* also has a natural burial ground.

* Boyce, not O Level French bwah!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribbesford in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

[Calthrop]

Mamble, Worcestershire, was also in the lower division of the Hundred of Doddingtree. (@Xenophon PCDGS -- usually your kind of thing; but it's all that I could find, concerning Ribbesford !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woofferton in Shropshire also lies on the route of the A456 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Woofferton is the most southerly settlement in Shropshire; while Scole, near Diss, is the southernmost in Norfolk.