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Anerley in the London Borough of Bromley also lies on the line of the Croydon Canal.
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Walter de la Mare (1873 -- 1956) -- poet, short story (especially "ghost" ones) writer, and novelist; lived in Anerley for much of the first quarter of the 20th century. He resided for the following fifteen-odd years, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
DerekC
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Just above Taplow the Jubilee River separates from the Thames and runs east of it for about six miles to just above Datchet, where it rejoins the main stream
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wexham in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Stoke.
Near Wexham is Black Park Country Park; which -- owing in part to its proximity to Pinewood Film Studios -- has been used as an outdoor filming location for many film and television productions. Also quite popular for this purpose is Doune Castle, Perthshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Craigantlet in Northern Ireland is also the site of a motoring event held by the the British Hill Climb Championship.
It would appear that the above-bolded settlement's name has, "notionally / officially" another syllable, making it "Craigogantlet" or "Craigagantlet"; but nowadays, and for a long while past -- the pronunciation and the spelling, including for official purposes, is / has been invariably the shorter form. (Per Wiki, the name derives from a long and wonderfully unpronounceable-looking Irish-language form of words meaning "rock of the descendants of [unpronounceable person]".) A kindred -- though not identical -- state of affairs has been observed in Norfolk; quite a number of settlement names in that county are spelt in one way; but their pronunciation follows a different, shorter form -- pronounced and generally accepted thus, both by locals, and by "foreigners" who have dealings with the places concerned. There's a novel in which a Norfolk chap explains the phenomenon: "We do that sometimes ... miss out the middle syllable when a word's too long. Take the easy way round."
An instance of this is Happisburgh, Norfolk; pronounced "Hazeboro", or sometimes even "Hazebro".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tunstall in the East Riding of Yorkshire is also a coastal settlement that is subjected to the effects of coastal land erosion.
John Griffiths
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Bothwell, South Lanarkshire, was also a Special Drainage District.
Minister of Bothwell church from 1865 on, was the Rev. John Pagan (1836 -- 1909): minister (and amateur botanist) who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1899 -- this gentleman lumbered, I feel, with an embarrassing surname for a godly Christian leader ! The Rev. concerned, was born in Newton Wamphray (Dumfries & Galloway -- south of Beattock).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Calanais (aka Callanish) on the Isle of Lewis also has Standing Stones.
Springs Branch
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Cookstown in County Tyrone is also located at longitude 6° 44' W
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carnmoney in County Antrim also has historical connections to the weaving of linen cloth.
John Griffiths
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The remarkable Lilian Bland flew her self-designed and self-built biplane the Bland Mayfly at Carnmoney in 1910. She was born into an 'ascendancy' family in Maidstone, Kent, in 1878.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wallasey in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.
The names of Wallasey; and Walsall (West Midlands), come from the same Anglo-Saxon or Old English root. Wallasey, from Walha = Welshman / Briton, plus ey = island, or area of dry land. Walsall, from Walh halh = valley of the Welsh / British.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Southampton also has a Sikh Temple.
The Congregational minister Isaac Watts (1674 -- 1748) -- most renowned as a hymn-writer -- was born in Southampton; he died in Stoke Newington (London Borough of Hackney). (Watts is also credited with -- in playful mood -- the rhyme listing the signs of the Zodiac in their through-the-year correct order:"The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins; and next the Crab; the Lion shines; the Virgin, and the Scales; the Scorpion, Archer, and the Goat, the Man that bears the watering-pot, and the Fish with the glittering tails".)
D6130
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Newton Mearns in Renfrewshire is also a settlement with a significant Jewish population.
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We learn that the above-bolded settlement's name is derived from its having been "a new town of the Mearns" -- from the Gaelic a'Mhaiorne, meaning a stewartry: looking-up of which, reveals that it signifies a Scottish administrative division under the jurisdiction of a steward (this game is highly educational !). The name Mearns (not necessarily from the same root?) also shows up on the other side of Scotland: the fertile farming area called the Howe of the Mearns, at the southern extremity of present-day Aberdeenshire -- this area called just "Mearns" many centuries ago. Chief settlement of the "Howe": is Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire.
D6130
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The 'Mearns' in which Laurencekirk lies were originally in the former county of Kincardine....the county town of which was Stonehaven.
Stonehaven's fish and chip shop The Bay, won in 2012 and 2013 the title of Scotland's no. 1 "chippy", in the National Fish and Chip Awards ratings. Among the UK's rated ten-best fish and chip shops per the 2023 "Fry Awards", is The Cod's Scallops in Market Harborough, Leicestershire -- appeals to me for the awful pun, and for its being a pretty long way from the sea !
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DerekC
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Market Harborough is served by a branch of the Grand Union Canal. The branch joins the main line near Foxton, also in Leicestershire
John Griffiths
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Bingley, West Yorkshire, also has staircase locks.
D6130
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Keighley, in West Yorkshire, also has a pub named the Brown Cow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Warrington also has historical links to the wire drawing industry.
DerekC
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The only regular hovercraft service in the world links Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight.