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[Calthrop]

Littledean in Gloucestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Ethelbert.

As opposed to Littlebert with its church dedicated to St. Etheldean -- sorry !


Littledean's former prison is now a crime museum. The former town jail in Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, is now -- less appropriately -- the town's library and tourist centre.

 

[John Griffiths]

Nottingham also has a museum of crime and justice.

 

[John Griffiths]

 Kirklington, Notts, also has a church dedicated to St Swithin/Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

John Boddam-Whetham (1834 -- 1918) -- first-class cricketer, traveller, and naturalist (specialising in Oceania and Latin America) was born in Kirklington; he died in Folkestone, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel in Cumbria also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Cartmel lies just outside the Lake District National Park; Breamore, Hampshire -- between Ringwood and Salisbury -- lies just outside the New Forest National Park.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wing, Rutland, also has a turf maze.

 

[Calthrop]

I've done this one a couple of years ago; but, according to local lore, the people of Wing are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Hence the legend of their, one year, seeking to build a hedge around a cuckoo: so as to keep the bird in the vicinity all year and every year, whereby it would be forever spring. This tale is told of other settlements with proverbially, shall we say naive, inhabitants; a famous one of same being Gotham, Nottinghamshire.

(Since recently watching "Springwatch" on TV: including, evening after evening, the totally merciless behaviour of a cuckoo chick toward the pair of meadow-pipits on which it was parasitising -- having tipped the genuine pipit eggs out of the nest -- I have rather gone off cuckoos.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Papplewick in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of thr Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gypsum was mined at Gotham; it still is at Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Papplewick in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

The thread should continue from this posting.

 

[Springs Branch]

There is also a working steam-powered industrial heritage museum (of the fixed engine type - not locomotives!) at Coldharbour Mill, near the village of Uffculme in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Culmstock in Devon also lies on the line of the River Culm.

 

[341o2]

Or rather a town of two halves divided by the river, as the Esk does to Whitby

 

[Calthrop]

Captain James Cook -- coming originally from these general parts -- is much commemorated therein: including there being a statue to him in Whitby. Also statue-memorialised in Whitby, is another guy in that basic "line of business"; but less generally acclaimed, than Cook. This is William Scoresby (1789 -- 1857), born at Cropton, North Yorkshire (a little way north-west of Pickering). Scoresby specialised in the Arctic, as opposed to Cook's Pacific / southerly latitudes focus: he is described as a whaler, Arctic explorer, and scientist. In the latter part of his life, he accomplished a radical "career change" by becoming an Anglican clergyman.

 

[D6130]

Snainton is another North Yorkshire village with an acclaimed micro-brewery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Radnor in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Calthrop]

Wolverhampton also has a pub called the Harp.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bilston in the West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolverhampton Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Bilston possesses a number of carved wood sculptures by Robert Koenig, who also participated in the Grisedale Forest project. He left behind six sculptures at various locations near Hawkshead in Cumbria.

 

[Calthrop]

Thurmaston, Leicestershire -- a little way north of Leicester -- also has a church dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Queniborough in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Lowesby, Leicestershire, is also situated on the Queniborough Brook; some miles up that stream, from Queniborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scraptoft in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billesdon Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that in times past, the Quorn Hunt -- a well-known name on that scene -- had spells of meeting regularly at Scraptoft, and setting off about their activities in an easterly direction therefrom. One might be inclined to wonder why the hunters didn't begin operations from their name-village of Quorn, about ten miles north-west of Scraptoft; but I am, for sure, not a scholar of fox-hunting ! Most of the famous Hunt names seem to be of places in the East Midlands; but there's one, geographically quite far removed, with an intriguing name: the Zetland Hunt. Nothing to do with the Shetland Islands; it's essentially based at Richmond, North Yorkshire.

 

[DerekC]

Southport on Merseyside was also on the "line of totality" during the total eclipse of the sun which occurred on 29th June 1927.

 

[John Griffiths]

One rather iffy theory has it that Louis Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, was inspired by the broad streets of Southport, while in exile in his younger years, to order Baron Haussman to remodel Paris on similar lines. Napoleon III died in exile (again; he was a great chap for being driven out of France) in  Sydenham, SE London.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another, lesser-known Sydenham in these islands; a suburb of Belfast.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastle upon Tyne also has "heraldic" seahorses on it coat of arms.

 

[Calthrop]

Newcastle upon Tyne is twinned with a settlement in the Netherlands, namely Groningen. Another Dutch city, Arnhem, has not one but two British "twins" (I call that greedy !) -- Coventry, and Croydon. I tossed a coin, and Croydon won.