Wangford's parish is officially called Wangford with Henham -- the "Henham" part basically being an estate: the one-time village of the name, having pretty well vanished. There is a somewhat bigger, and better-known, Henham in Essex: between Thaxted and Bishop's Stortford.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Stromness in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
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Sometime Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond is buried in Finstown. Paddy Ashdown, a later leader of the Liberal Democrats, is buried in Norton sub Hamdon, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Haselbury Plucknett in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Houndsborough.
Haselbury Plucknett is strongly associated with the "unofficial saint" Wulfric (c. 1080 -- 1154), who spent much of his life as a hermit / anchorite attached to the church there. According to Wiki: earlier in his life, as an ordinary parish priest, "he was much addicted to hunting, with both hawks and hounds"; but a conversion experience caused him to switch to more godly uses of his time. Another holy man and also hunting fan, who underwent struggles re temptations presented by his fandom: was King Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 -- 1066), born in Islip, Oxfordshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Oddington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ray.
EbbwJunction1
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St Andrews is the present Church of England parish church at Oddington, which was built at the end of the 13th century and beginning of the 14th century. It contains an early 16th-century monumental brass in memory of Ralph Hamsterley, who had been parish priest and died in 1518. It is a cadaver monument, showing his corpse in its burial shroud, which is a style unusual for monumental brasses in England. Another example of this type of monument from the late 15th century is also in memory of a parish priest; it can be found in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Lytchett Matravers, Dorset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Canford Magna in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Cogdean.
I'm not an expert on saints -- a lot of which lore is strange to me: best probably, that I just pass on what got from the Net. I learn that Canford Magna's church is "possibly" dedicated to St. Augustine. Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly County Borough, has a church dedicated to St. Augustine. If I'm right, there are two -- both prominent -- St. Augustines; to which, the "possible" English one; and the Welsh one; belong -- I leave to folk more genned-up on this stuff, than me.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent also lies on the line of the Sirhowy River,
EbbwJunction1
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One of Tredegar's main attributes is the Town Clock, dominating the southern part of the town centre. This was made by J B Joyce & Co., clockmakers, then of Whitchurch, Shropshire and was the idea of Mrs. R P Davies, the wife of the Tredegar Ironworks manager, who had decided that she wanted to present a "lofty illuminated clock", and it was she who decided that it would be erected in the Circle. J B Joyce & Co. claim to be the oldest clock manufacturer in the world; the company was originally established by William Joyce in Cockshutt, North Shropshire in 1690 and have been part of the Smith of Derby Group since 1965.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rotherham in South Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Simon and St Jude,
EbbwJunction1
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Dewsbury is also a Minster and Market town in Yorkshire.
Eddie Waring (1910 -- 1986) -- sports aficionado and commentator, "anchor man" re It's a Knockout and its international successor Jeux Sans Frontieres, and general "booster" of things Northern: was born in Dewsbury. He died in Menston (City of Bradford).
EbbwJunction1
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The Anglican parish church at Menston is dedicated to St John the Divine, and is part of the Diocese of Leeds. Originally built in 1871, it was enlarged by the architect William Swinden Barber FRIBA (1832 – 1908) between 1884 and 1886 when a new north aisle and vestries were constructed. At the same time, he was building and furnishing the Church of St Michael and All Angels at Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire.
DerekC
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Llanelli is now the only centre of UK tinplate production. Tinning iron or steel to prevent or delay corrosion was done in ancient times, but the world's first experiments in rolled tinplate were carried out in a works set up by the ironmasters Phlip Foley and Joshua Newborough at Wolverley in Worcestershire in about 1670, after which the UK became a leader in this technology.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Salwarpe in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Hundred of Halfshire.
(My italics): is that -- in the Lord of the Rings "Universe" -- The Shire, where the Hobbits or Halflings live?
(I'm not going to give up my day job.)
Salwarpe lies close by the Droitwich Canal. Hanbury, Worcestershire -- a few miles to the north-east -- is quite near that canal, and is referenced in connection with it: viz. its Hanbury Locks.
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EbbwJunction1
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The church of St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury, contains numerous memorials to the Vernon family of the nearby Hanbury Hall. These include, in the Vernon Chapel, a large monument to Thomas Vernon (1654 – 1721), who was an English chancery lawyer, and Whig MP for Worcester and who was probably born at Hanbury Hall. The monument is by the sculptors Edward Stanton (1681–1734) and Christopher Horsnaile the Elder (c. 1658 – 1742). Another work of the partnership is the fireplaces, door surrounds and statues at Ditchley Park, a country house near Charlbury in Oxfordshire, which dates from 1725.
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Charlbury is in the Evenlode valley, the river rises near Moreton in Marsh
Xenophon PCDGS
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Airmyn in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St David.
DerekC
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The next settlement downstream from Buttercrambe on the River Derwent is Stamford Bridge (East Riding)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sadberge in County Durham also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Cade's Road.
EbbwJunction1
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Sadberge's name is Old Danish for "flat hill", which is an accurate description of the location of the village from where good views of the surrounding countryside can be obtained. The origin of the name is reflective of the area's high Viking-influence, and placenames with the same root also appear in other Viking-influenced areas, including the village of Sedbergh in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now administered as part of Cumbria).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bentham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ewcross Wapentake.
Bentham was for a while, from the 18th century on, a centre for the weaving trade; Wiki says, "particularly after weavers in the town discovered how to weave hosepipes from flax" (shades of Swift's mad scientists / inventors in "Gulliver" and their feats such as producing sunbeams from cucumbers) ... a prominent modern-day producer of hosepipes, is Copely Developments of Leicester.
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Croft in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Soar.