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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballymena in County Antrim also lies on the line of the River Main.

 

[Calthrop]

There has long been an affectionate relationship between Ballymena and Gibraltar; dating from World War II, when many evacuees from Gibraltar were lodged with families in and around the Ulster town. (Ballymena has long been reckoned a place where extreme Protestantism is to the fore; whereas I'd imagine that most Gibraltarians are Catholic. Presumably, in unusual and "fraught" wartime circumstances, accommodations were made.) And: Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, is unofficially twinned with Gibraltar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sharpness in Gloucestershire is also an inland port.

 

[D6130]

Eastham in Merseyside (formerly Cheshire) is also situated at the entrance to a ship canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Eastham has been in past centuries, the southern terminus of a ferry service to Liverpool: operated in distant times by monks of the Abbey of St. Werburgh (patron saint of the city of Chester). Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Werburgh.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St. Werburgh's church is actually in Burslem, and is a member of the North Potteries Team Ministry. Another church in that group in St Saviour's, Smallthorne.

 

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St. Werburgh's church is actually in Burslem, and is a member of the North Potteries Team Ministry. Another church in that group in St Saviour's, Smallthorne.

Hasty Net consultation led to inaccuracy re the Five (?Six?) Towns -- sorry.

This part of England would seem characterised by enthusiasm for Esperanto. Smallthorne has a pub, the Green Star: which until recently bore a supplementary Esperanto name sign (La Verda Stelo); and the offices and administrative centre of the Esperanto Association of Great Britain, are located just a little way south of the Potteries conurbation -- in Barlaston, Staffordshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

That's no problem ... I think that it's difficult to say where a lot of places are in that kneck of the world!

The old parish church of St John, Barlaston, is sited on the edge of the Wedgewood estate. It was built to the design of the English architect Charles Lynam (1829 – 1921) in 1886 to 1868, retaining the west tower from the original medieval building. He also designed industrial buildings, including for the tile making firm Maw and Company (1883) in Jackfield, Shropshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Taking the easy option: Pickering, North Yorkshire, also has a Black Swan pub.

 

[D6130]

Clitheroe in Lancashire also has a small-ish Norman castle keep on top of a hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wiswell in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Clitheroe Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The main road through Wiswell is Pendleton Road which, unsurprisingly, leads to the village of Pendleton.

 

[D6130]

Stockport in Greater Manchester also has a pub named 'The Swan with Two Necks'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden was designed by Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day (1896–1976) and built between 1935 and 1937); it is a Grade II* listed building. Another his designs can be seen at St Philip's Church, Avondale Square (also known as St Philip the Apostle, Camberwell and St Philip and St Mark's, Camberwell) is a parish church within the Avondale Square Estate in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark. It was one of his last works, and was dedicated in 1963.

 

[Calthrop]

Hilaire Belloc wrote doggerel verse about the doings of various characters: predominating therein, naughty kids; and often, no-better-behaved aristocrats. A character of his of the latter kind, is Lord Lucky, who

"...by a curious fluke
Became a most important Duke,
From living in a vile hotel
A long way east of Camberwell."

Another such told of by the same author, is Lord Hippo, going through many ups and downs as a horse-racing punter; engaging in this occupation at, among other places, Ascot in Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Springs Branch]

The racecourse at Ascot is owned by the Crown, having been founded in 1711 by Queen Anne.

Another thoroughbred racecourse with a royal connection (founded by James I) is at Newmarket in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirtling in Cambridgeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newmarket Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The Hon. Dudleya North (1675 -- 1712) [you don't meet many Dudleyas] of the aristocratic North family -- the young lady was an accomplished orientalist, linguist, and classical scholar -- is buried in the North family vault in Kirtling parish church. Her uncle Roger North had set up a parochial library at Rougham, Norfolk (north of Swaffham); after her death he added to its contents, her orientalia books and her manuscripts (these are now in the keeping of more august and secure establishments).

 

[Springs Branch]

Mavesyn Ridware in Staffordshire is also located at latitude 52° 45 'N.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnage in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mauldeth Hall in Green End, Burnage was the dwelling of the Bishop of Manchester for more than 20 years, before his move to Higher Broughton (also known as Broughton), Salford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Entwistle in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

[Calthrop]

Entwistle's name comes from the old English ened twisla = river fork frequented by ducks. It would seem that the various British place names actually including the standard English word for said lovable farmyard creature, are usually in fact nothing to do with said creature: likely instance, Duckmanton, North-East Derbyshire -- though Wiki says neither "yes" nor "no" re this matter here.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brimington in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a pub in Brimington which -- clearly at the initiative of some punster -- is called "Brimming with Beer". Nunhead, London Borough of Southwark, also has a hostelry with a zany / locally-specialised name: the Pyrotechnists' Arms -- so called because of patrons of bygone times, employed at a nearby fireworks factory.

 

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In 1834 the Girdlers' Company built the Beeston's Gift Almshouses, a terrace of seven Tudor-style cottages which still stand in front of a garden with railings on Consort Road. Strangely, the Company's web site locates these as being in Peckham rather than Numhead.

 

[Calthrop]

The Manze family's "Cockney-eatery" minor empire has a celebrated Pie and Mash Shop -- emblazoned with that title -- in Peckham; and another such in Walthamstow (Borough of Waltham Forest).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wanstead in the London Borough of Redbridge was also once administered by the Hundred of Becontree.