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Piddinghoe in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Holmstrow.

 

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St John's Church, Piddinghoe is one of three in the Ouse Valley with a round Norman tower; the others are at nearby Southease and St Michael’s, Lewes.

 

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A rather morbid association; but the body of the writer Virginia Woolf was washed up on the banks of the Sussex River Ouse near Southease, three weeks or so after her suicide by drowning near Lewes; this happened in 1941. In the 1880s and 90s, the young V.W. spent a number of summers with her parents and siblings, at St. Ives, Cornwall.

 

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Garforth in West Yorkshire also has a community choir.

 

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Stafford also has a pub called The Yard. A pub name quite often met with up and down Britain -- one wonders, "how come?" -- the "yard of ale" thing, perhaps...

 

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Penkridge in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

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Penkridge was the birthplace of George Edalji (1876 -- 1953), the central figure of a complex miscarriage-of-justice episode. Edalji, a solicitor and son of an Indian Parsi family which had settled in England: was in the very early years of the 20th century, wrongly convicted of animal-mutilation offences, and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. A campaign to demonstrate Edalji's innocence and clear his name -- most prominent participant in which was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- succeeded in its objective: he was exonerated and released. Edalji served part of his sentence in Portland Prison -- situated at the village of The Grove on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

 

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Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St, Peter.

 

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St Barnabas' Church is a redundant Anglican church in Sibell Street, Chester; it is a designated Grade II listed building. It was originally built as a mission church, financed from public subscription, to serve the workers living near Chester railway station. The church and the adjacent curate's house were designed by English architect John Douglas (1830 – 1911) in 1877. Another, slightly later (1878 to 1879) building designed by John Douglas is St John the Evangelist's Church, a Welsh church in King Street, Mold, Flintshire; also redundant as a church (and also listed Grade II), it has been divided and is used as a church hall.

 

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Cardiff is also the site of a Crown Court.

 

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Plymouth also has a namesake settlement in California, USA (near Sacramento). Cardiff's is actually, sort-of a namesake settlement: a little way north of San Diego, its full name is Cardiff-by-the-Sea. (Where those silly twisted Californians might think that the Welsh Cardiff is situated...?)

 

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Hull also has a noted aquarium.

 

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The English actor Ian Carmichael OBE was born in Hull on 18th June 1920. After a long career spanning 70 years, he died on 5th February 2010, aged 89 in Grosmont, North Yorkshire.

 

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Grosmont village is relatively new -- a creation of the Industrial Revolution and the railway age. (The name Grosmont comes from the monastic house established close by, in medieval times -- abolished under Henry VIII.) Initially, the village was called Tunnel: after its tunnel on the Whitby -- Pickering rail route. Its Station Tavern pub, was formerly the Tunnel Inn. Coates, Gloucestershire -- near Cirencester -- has a Tunnel House Inn, near the south portal of Sapperton canal tunnel.

 

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Daglingworth in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Crowthorne and Minety.

 

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One of John Moore's novels of Gloucestershire life in times past -- which I love -- has as a character, a rather naughty girl called Sandra Daglingworth. A character in other parts of his body-of-work -- set a little earlier in the 20th century -- is a benign and witty schoolmaster, one-time pedagogue of the first-person narrator, by the name of Mr. Chorlton. For this bod, Moore has gone rather far afield for a place-name likeness: Chorlton, Cheshire, is a little way south of Crewe.

 

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There are no educational facilities in Chorlton. The civil parish falls within the catchment area of two primary schools; most falls within the catchment area of Weston Village Primary School, but the western part is in that of Shavington Primary School. Senior education is provided by
Shavington Academy (formerly Shavington High School), a coeducational secondary school located in Rope Lane, Shavington, Cheshire East.

 

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George Saul Mottershead (1894 -- 1978) was in the 1920s, a market gardener and florist in Shavington; and also, a would-be zoo proprietor. As at the beginning of the 1930s, he moved to Upton-by-Chester, just north of Chester city; and in that immediate area, founded Chester Zoo.

 

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Guilden Sutton in Cheshire West and Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Great Boughton Poor Law Union,

 

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St John the Baptist's Church, Guilden Sutton contains a painted memorial plaque to the Whitehead family, which is probably by Randle Holme III.
Randle Holme was a name shared by members of four successive generations of a family who lived in Chester from the later years of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century. They were all herald painters and genealogists and were members of the Stationers' Company of Chester. All four painted memorial boards and hatchments and this is one example. Others can still be found in Cheshire churches, for example at St Lawrence's Church, Stoak, which has thirteen memorial boards which are probably by members of the family. They have dates between 1627 and 1702 and are mainly to the memory of the Bunbury family.

 

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Market Drayton in Shropshire also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

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Stockport, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Herault. Market Drayton's "twin" is Pezenas; Stockport's is Beziers.

 

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Kegworth in Leicestershire was also the site of an aircraft disaster.

 

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The cartoonist Bill Tidy -- probably most famous for his long-running cartoon strips The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga -- and who died earlier this month, aged 89: lived for a long spell in Kegworth. He was born in Tranmere, Merseyside.

 

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Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

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St Augustine's Church stands on Penarth Headland, and was built in 1866 at a cost of £10,000, financed by Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th baroness Windsor. It was designed by the famous Victorian architect William Butterfield (1814 – 1900) and is described as one of his best polychromatic churches. At roughly the same time (1865), he also designed another church of the same name, St Augustine's, Queen's Gate, which is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in Brompton, London.

 

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Brompton's name comes from -- in an older version of English -- broom tun = "gorse farm": centuries ago, before urbanisation, the locality was famous for its gorse fields. Broomholm in Norfolk -- near North Walsham -- has a similarly-derived name, which signified "broom- or gorse-covered island".

 

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Antingham in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Erpingham Poor Law Union.

 

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Antingham lies just fractionally off the A149 road. Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, is situated on that road.

 

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Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk has also been the scene of a lifeboat disaster.