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Burnley in Lancashire also has a pub named the Shakespeare.
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In World War II -- reckoning on temporary relocating far enough northward, to be proof against the wartime dangers of London and the south-east -- the Old Vic Theatre Company and the Sadlers Wells Opera and Ballet Companies, were moved to the Victoria Theatre, Burnley, as a temporary headquarters. The same was done, at the same time, with the Royal College of Art; which was relocated for the period of the war, to Ambleside, Cumbria.
DerekC
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The University of Cumbria has a campus in Ambleside, but its headquarters are in Carlisle.
M-Train
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Carlisle is twinned with a town (Flensburg) which is also near the northern border of its country (Germany); in turn, Flensburg is known to Germans for something which Swansea is known for here, i.e. (their equivalent of) the DVSA.
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In the past Swansea was a major refiner of copper from ore shipped across from the mines in Cornwall, and historically producing 75% of the world's supply of copper metal.
Along with most other British heavy industries, this is no longer the case; the largest producer of copper products in the country today (mostly tubing and pipes - and much of it from scrap copper and brass) belongs to Mueller Inc., a US-based multinational, with a plant in Bilston, West Midlands.
Along with most other British heavy industries, this is no longer the case; the largest producer of copper products in the country today (mostly tubing and pipes - and much of it from scrap copper and brass) belongs to Mueller Inc., a US-based multinational, with a plant in Bilston, West Midlands.
Sir Henry Newbolt (1862 -- 1938) -- poet, novelist, and historian -- was born in Bilston. Newbolt is probably best known for his patriotic poem, in Devon dialect, Drake's Drum: with its repeated mentions, relevant to the theme, of Plymouth Hoe. (One thinks of the school-kid's howler: "When the Armada was sighted, Sir Francis Drake was on Plymouth Hoe, playing with his bowels".)
Xenophon PCDGS
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York also has a second-tier Crown Court.
Springs Branch
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The other Province of the Church of England is based in Canterbury.
M-Train
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Reading also retains municipal buses to this day.
"Church stuff" on which various participants here, are much more knowledgeable than I; but I gather that while the majority of Church of England Minsters, are also cathedrals; some are not. Reading's Church of St. Mary the Virgin is a Minster but not a cathedral; the same applies to Beverley (East Yorkshire) Minster.
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Kings Lynn also has two market places named for days of the week. Lynn's are the Tuesday and Friday Markets; Beverley's, Wednesday and Saturday.
Kings Lynn is a relatively "young" town by English standards: a settlement in this spot, first heard of in the 10th century; KL began to come into its own, and to become a port, only from the early 13th century when the River Great Ouse -- which had hitherto reached the sea via the Wellstream and Wisbech -- was directed to a new outflow as per its present course. Liverpool is in rather similar case, as a newish port; to which status it grew, some centuries after its first beginnings in the 12th century.
M-Train
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Kilburn in London has also been associated with Irish settlement.
Kilburn is one out of highly numerous places in Britain: which have sought prosperity from having actually or supposedly in their vicinity, chalybeate water with its perceived curative properties. Kilburn tried in the 18th century -- without notable success -- to feature on this scene. A settlement which has done much better with this "number", is Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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Tunbridge Wells had a longstanding bus link, from LT days, into suburban London (ie the 402 to Bromley), but which is now truncated to well short of the boundary; the same is true of St Albans, where the 84 to Barnet now ends at Potters Bar.
Sorta-kinda-like -- at a much earlier time -- one O. Cromwell
.Boveney (Buckinghamshire -- near Windsor) also has a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.
Only Inkberrow has always been railway-less; whereas in The Archers Ambridge was, until the mid-1960s, the terminus of a branch line from "Hollerton Junction" -- much ado about closure of which line in the Beeching cuts, was made of in the programme; but, artistic licence and all that...
Parkham, Devon -- between Bideford and Clovelly -- also has a pub called the Bell.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abbotsham in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Shebbear.
A couple of miles from Abbotsham is the resort with the wondrous name of Westward Ho! From May to Oct. 2007, Stagecoach Devon ran a commercial service, no. 21B, Barnstaple -- Abbotsham -- Westward Ho! ; after this one season, the service was withdrawn and has never run again. (Remind you of something, "taboo" in this game, which came to an end in 1917?)
DerekC
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The village of Westward Ho! grew up around the Westward Ho!-tel (
) named after the Charles Kingsley novel. However the novel was actually set in nearby Bideford.
) named after the Charles Kingsley novel. However the novel was actually set in nearby Bideford.
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The village of Westward Ho! grew up around the Westward Ho!-tel (
A citizen of Bideford of a certain amount of note, was Edward Capern (1819 -- 94): born in Bideford, worked there as a postman; he was also a poet (known by some, as "the Devonshire Burns"); published four volumes of verse and in recognition of same, was given a Civil List pension. Another artist-in-words a few generations on, who was also a postman in a country town: was Simon Evans (1895 -- 1940): author and broadcaster, who in the latter part of his life worked as a postman in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
(Some years ago, I embarked on reading Kingsley's Westward Ho! -- couldn't get on with it, and "bailed" after a hundred-and-some pages. I'd thought it was going to be mostly, about Elizabethan swashbuckling doings in the West Indies -- I believe the characters do get there eventually -- but well over 100 pages in, they were still faffing around in North Devon and duking it out with the local dastardly and traitorous Catholics. I felt the book to be so permeated with vitriolic hate toward Catholics (the individuals, not just their creed), that I couldn't stomach it. Presumably this was true to people's general attitudes in England in that period; be that as it may, I didn't find the book fun, and "jacked it in".)
DerekC
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Cleobury Mortimer is on the River Rea, which rises on Netchwood Common near Ditton Priors, Shropshire.
(I never said a word about you-know-what!)
(I never said a word about you-know-what!)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.