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Wednesbury in the West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.
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There is an old, lengthy doggerel ballad called The Wednesbury Cocking -- beginning, At Wednesbury there was a cocking, A match between Newton and Scroggins ... about a cockfight where passions ran high, with fighting between the human spectators eclipsing anything that the cockerels got up to. With the village of Cocking, West Sussex: gallinaceous pugilism is not involved -- the name, from the Anglo-Saxon, refers to the settlement of the people of the chieftain called Cocca.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Woolbeding in West Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Easebourne.
Woolbeding seems to have specialised as birthplace and / or residence of poets of whom I for one, had never hitherto heard: Thomas Otway (17th century); Charlotte Turner Smith (18th century); and Francis William Bourdillon (19th / 20th centuries). At the opposite end of the country: Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, has strong associations with John Close ("Poet Close": 1816 -- 1891); he and his copious output drew much attention in his time -- including from a fair number of folk who, rather unkindly, regarded him as England's answer to William McGonagall.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberdeen also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.
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Hastings in East Sussex also hosts an annual folk festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Society of Friends meeting house.
Ipswich features in a "two-town" Anglican bishopric: that of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich; wherein Bury St. Edmunds has the cathedral, and Ipswich doesn't. There is a similar arrangement concerning the bishopric of Bath and Wells; in which Bath (Somerset) is the cathedral-less partner.
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Monkton Combe in Somerset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bath Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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Monkton Coombe's parish church is dedicated to St Michael. The original was thought to have been Norman, but was razed in the early 19th century and rebuilt in 1814 and again in 1865. The churchyard contains the grave of Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier who served in the First World War. He was born in the village of Coombe Down, near Bath on 17th June 1898 and died, aged 111 years, 38 days, on 25th July 2009 in Wells.
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I am having some difficulty in tracing a settlement spelt Coombe Down in the Bath area of Somerset, but have found one spelt Combe Down.
(Was in the process of making a post -- I was reading #30,220's settlement as Combe Down, immediately south of Bath -- the "Combe" usually with one "o"; but, I have the impression, occasionally spelt with two. Will make so bold as to proceed...) A favourite detective-novel series of mine is that by Peter Lovesey, with as principal character Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond -- the grouchy but astute head of the Bath police's C.I.D. Though centring on the city of Bath, the books range over various settings in England's "mid-south-west". A recent one, The Finisher, includes a good deal of action involving, under Combe Down, its warren of old quarries and mines; and the long former (and when it was in use, nasty) railway tunnel. An earlier "Diamond" novel, The Stone Wife, divides its action between Bath; and Bridgwater, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bawdrip in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of North Petherton
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As stated above, St Michael and All Angels' Church is the parish church of Houghton-le-Spring. It dates from the late 12th century and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin, who was known as 'the Apostle of the North'. He was descended from a Westmoreland family with a pedigree back to Richard de Gylpyn in about 1206, and was born in 1517 at Kentmere Hall, Kentmere in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria. He came to a sad end, as he died on 4th March 1583 in Durham market place when an ox and cart ran him over.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burneside in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Kent.
Burneside's pub is called the Jolly Anglers -- somewhat reminiscent of Skegness (Lincolnshire)'s famous emblem the Jolly Fisherman, bounding along the beach clad in his job's characteristic gear, while remarking on how bracing his town is.
EbbwJunction1
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St Matthew's Church, Skegness contains an organ built by Rushworth and Draper of Liverpool, which is recognised as one of the best in the country. Another organ by the company is to be found at St Oswald's Church, Winwick, Cheshire.
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Leicster also has a junction where two motorways meet. (for winwick it’s the m6 and the m62 and leicster it’s the m69 and m6)
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Leicester lies on the River Soar, which rises near Wibtoft in north-eastern Warwickshire.
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Colsterworth also lies on a major A-road.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stroxton in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Grantham Poor Law Union.
We had Stroxton last month -- a little place without a great deal to say about it: am thus somewhat repeating self from then. Place-name-pronunciation in these parts, often involves "simplification" vis-a-vis the spelling: this village is pronounced as "Stroe-sun". Five miles or so to the south-west, Coston, Leicestershire: is similarly pronounced "Coe-sun".
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Bridport in Dorset also has a church dedicated to Saint Andrew.
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St Andrew's Church, Bridport is a redundant church built between 1858 and 1860 to the designs of Thomas Talbot Bury. His works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes, with St John the Evangelist's Church, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, being one of them; it was built between 1861 and 1863.
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The local Battel Bonfire Boyes (yes, this is the correct spelling) is claimed to be the oldest of the Sussex Bonfire Societies; another one can be seen in action at Firle in the Lewes district of East Sussex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beddingham in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Totnore
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The 13th-century Itford Farm house (Grade II* listed) was converted into the YHA South Downs youth hostel in 2013. Another YHA Hostel in East Sussex is at Telscombe.