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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell in Oxfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Agatha.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki would seem rather to have to scrape the barrel, for historical events involving Brightwell-cum-Sotwell: including, "in 1781, King George III rode through the village, returning from a stag hunt". George doesn't seem to have been much of a traveller; but he did spend time in 1788 in Cheltenham Spa, with relief being sought re the spells of mental illness which plagued him.

(I feel that "Brightwell-cum-Sotwell" looks like a whimsical place-name invented by John Betjeman.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sidmouth in Devon also hosts a Jazz Festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheddar, Somerset, also has a flight of steps called Jacob's Ladder.

 

[A0]

Stilton in Cambridgeshire also has a cheese named after it.

 

[Calthrop]

Also featuring in the Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear: is Ewell (London Borough of Epsom and Ewell) -- re the latter, the Old Person thereof, who subsisted chiefly on gruel (augmented by mice); re the former -- the Jumblies provisioned themselves for their voyaging, with "no end of Stilton cheese".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fetcham in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Copthorne.

 

[Calthrop]

Nantwich, Cheshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Minshull in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Weaver.

 

[Calthrop]

Lelant, Cornwall -- near St. Ives -- also has a pub called the Badger.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Madron in Cornwall was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Penwith.

 

[Calthrop]

Madron has a particular association with the naval hero Lord Nelson: thanks to the tradition that by an odd chain of events, the news of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21/10/1805, first reached Britain -- unofficially -- at Penzance; whose "mother church" was that of nearby Madron; a few days after the battle. There is annually, on the nearest Sunday to October 21st, a Trafalgar Parade at Madron and a commemorative service in Madron church. In 1802 Lady Emma Hamilton -- Nelson's "love interest" -- bought him the country estate of Merton Place, in Merton -- now in the London Borough of Merton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coppull in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Divine.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki tells us that part of the boundaries of Coppull, is a stream called the Hic-Bibi Brook -- I'll believe them, thousands wouldn't ... Another smallish watercourse with a peculiar name, which has come up before in this game: is the River Hiz, a sub-tributary of the Great Ouse; it rises near Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

 

[A0]

Hitchin Town FC was one of the teams in the inaugural FA Cup of 1871/2.

Maidenhead was another.

 

[Calthrop]

Hugh Lofting (1886 -- 1947), author of the "Dr. Dolittle" books, was born in Maidenhead. His fictional Puddleby-in-the-Marsh, Slopshire -- where the Doctor lives and practices -- was represented in the 1967 film musical Dr. Dolittle by the famously picturesque village (often used as a film location) of Castle Combe, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Slaughterford in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the watercourse called Brybrook.

 

[A0]

Ozleworth (Glocs) also has a church of St Nicholas of Myra.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newington Bagpath (sometimes referred to as Bagpath) was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Hundred of Berkeley.

 

[Calthrop]

(Newington) Bagpath's parish church, St. Bartholomew's as was: is now disused and effectively derelict -- this having obtained since the early 1970s. One gathers that some 20 -- 25 Anglican churches meet this fate each year in England. Some are converted to other uses: a few have become indoor climbing centres. Old St. Anne's Church, Warrington, Cheshire, is one such.

 

[A0]

Ikea opened its first UK store in the Burtonwood area of Warrington.

Its latest store opening - a new concept of 'plan and order' point - was in Stockport earlier this year.

 

[341o2]

Stockport had one of the early short lived trolleybus systems - well 3 vehicles and a single route, the only one in the UK to use the Lloyd Kohler system for current collection. they were withdrawn in 1920, Wigan had another shortlived system, lasting from 1925 to 1930

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Standish in Greater Manchester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wigan Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hailsham, East Sussex, also has a church dedicated to St. Wilfrid.

 

[DerekC]

Rope making was once the principal industry of both Hailsham and Bridport, Dorset

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crawshawbooth in Lancashire also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.

 

[Calthrop]

Taking an easy way for me -- pub names: Crawshawbooth has hostelries called the Black Dog, and the White Bull. Further on this theme including re colours and animals: North Wootton, Norfolk -- near King's Lynn -- has a pub by the name of the Red Cat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

A considerable number of small-boat owners in Penarth, volunteered the services of themselves and their craft in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk in summer 1940. This also applied to Mersea Island, Essex -- chief settlement West Mersea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falmouth in Cornwall also has a yacht club.