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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mordiford in Herefordshire also lies on the line of the River Lugg.

 

[341o2]

there is the legend of the Mordiford dragon, another apparently terrorised the inhabitants of Dunster until banished by the payers of St Carantoc.
Being Welsh, maybe he had a way with dragons

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rodhuish in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Carhampton.

 

[Calthrop]

Blackmoor Gate, Devon -- between Barnstaple and Lynton -- also lies on the very boundary of the Exmoor National Park.

 

[341o2]

Blackmoor Gate's pub, the Old Station House Inn, has recently been purchased by a subsidiary of the Lynton & Barnstaple railway, and one day it is hoped trains will run past it again however, the Old Station House Tearooms at Holmsley seems unlikely to see trains again, despite plans periodically put forward to reopen the Brockenhurst to Ringwood railway

 

[Calthrop]

Beaulieu, Hampshire -- not very far from Holmsley -- also had a World War II RAF station, largely with view combating U-boats in the English Channel.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Beaulieu,  Beaumaris, Ynys Mon, also has a pronunciation that would baffle  les Francais.

 

[Calthrop]

Like Beaulieu,  Beaumaris, Ynys Mon, also has a pronunciation that would baffle  les Francais.

Brits -- whether English or Welsh -- do seem to have this thing of pronouncing "Beau", as "Bew".

I'm a sucker for Tasmania: so -- Longford (Republic of Ireland) also has a namesake in "Tassie".

 

[DerekC]

Longford is the location of the Corlea Track, an iron age roadway about 2km long made of oak planks across a bog, made in about 150 BC. A much older pathway, the Sweet Track, runs for a similar distance across a bog near Shapwick, Somerset. That was built in 3807 BC (the precise date is from dendrochronology). Both could have been used only for about 10 years before they sank.

 

[Calthrop]

Lastingham, North Yorkshire -- north-west of Pickering -- also has a church dedicated to St. Mary. (So do probably hundreds of other places in Britain; but if there were no boringly common names, there'd be no such thing as unusual ones either !)

 

[DerekC]

The mediaeval church at Banbury in Oxfordshire also has an apsidal chancel. (It happens also to be called dedicated to St Mary)

 

[John Griffiths]

 Gloucester is also mentioned in a nursery rhyme (the rather damp Dr Foster).

 

[Calthrop]

Gloucester is associated with the eponymous [Double] Gloucester cheese. Cheese-appropriately, the city was formerly twinned with Gouda in the Netherlands; but this arrangement ended in 2015. Still twinned with a settlement in the Netherlands -- Delft -- is Kingston upon Thames.

 

[John Griffiths]

'J' (Jerome K Jerome), George and Harris's River Thames journey described in Jerome's Three Men in a Boat began at Kingston and ended in torrential rain at Oxford .

 

[Calthrop]

Cork also has a celebrated and large-scale covered market, chiefly purveying food; which is a considerable attraction for visitors. (Cork's market thus described, is called the English Market.)

 

[341o2]

Cork is known as the food capital of Ireland, in Wales, this honour falls upon the county of Monmouthshire, specifically Abergavenny which holds the UK's largest annual food festival

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brecon in Powys also has the remains of a Norman castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

 Lewes, East Sussex, is also located in a national park.

 

[341o2]

lewes is famous for one of the most decisive battles in English history, when Simon de Montford defeated the army of King Henry II, 1066 is the date of another decisive English battle - the one of Hastings, actually at nearby Battle, my father wanted to see where King Harold lost his eye, while we were holidaying in the area

 

[Calthrop]

Eliza Acton, author of pretty well Britain's first cookery book as such -- Modern Cookery for Private Families -- was born in Battle in 1799. One hundred and sixty years later, a lady who has attained some fame in the same field, and on whom I confess to having long entertained something of a crush -- to wit Sophie Grigson -- was born in Broad Town, Wiltshire (near Wootton Bassett).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cockermouth in Cumbria also has a church named Christ Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, is also twinned with a town in the French departement of Lozere. Cockermouth's "twin" is Marvejols; Tadcaster's, Saint-Chely-d'Apcher.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkin in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston Ash wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Birkin in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston Ash wapentake.

Birkin shares with Hutton, Scottish Borders (a little way on Scottish side of border, west of Berwick-on-Tweed): the property of being the namesake surname-wise, of a renownedly exuberant 20th-Century singer / actress -- respectively Jane Birkin, and the American Betty Hutton; the latter being quite decorous and "wholesome", in comparison with the former.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sunderland also has a church designed by the architect Ignatius Bonomi (St Mary's RC, Bridge Street).

 

[John Griffiths]

Sunderland also has a church designed by the architect Ignatius Bonomi (St Mary's RC, Bridge Street).

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[Calthrop]

A dependable fall-back of mine: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832 -- 1898. Carroll spent a fair amount of time in the Sunderland area, where he had friends and connections: it was in Sunderland that he wrote Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter. (Inevitably, one feels -- someone has produced a graphic novel titled Alice in Sunderland.) Carroll died in Guildford, Surrey, at his sisters' residence there; his grave is in Guildford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Guildford,  Weybridge in Surrey lies on the River Wey.

 

[Calthrop]

Weybridge shares with Reading, Berkshire: the trait of sounding -- though with dissimilar spelling -- like an English common (not "proper", or of a place) noun. Respectively: weighbridge = device for determining the weight of wheeled vehicles propelled on to it; redding = ruddle or naturally-occurring red dye.

 

[John Griffiths]

 Carlisle was also a major biscuit-manufacturing centre.