We seem to keep coming back to round-tower churches, the particularly East Anglian (especially Norfolk) thing. Cambridgeshire has only two such churches: at Snailwell; and at Bartlow (only just in Cambs., almost in Essex -- a few miles north-east of Saffron Walden in the latter county).
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Linton in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Chiliford.
John Griffiths
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Snelston in Derbyshire also has a clapper stile.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley area also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
Bargoed's name has been the subject of some "misunderstanding and messing-about". Name reckoned derived, originally and pure-ly, from the adjacent River Bargoed; which name is itself based on the Welsh word bargod = border, boundary. Settlement's original name therefrom, Bargod; was modified to Bargoed from the 16th century on: reckoned probably a "hypercorrection", influenced by another Welsh word coed = trees, woods. Another "B-place" not far away -- Bedwas, also in Caerphilly County Borough -- has featured in rather similar nomenclatorial antics. Bedwas is mentioned in the book Wild Wales, by the 19th-century travel writer George Borrow. Borrow somewhat gives the impression of having been one of those people who consider themselves to know everything about everything; however, his Bedwas reference is seen as giving the lie to that. In the book, Borrow asserts that the settlement's name comes from bettws = "prayer house". Scholars on these matters, opine that "Bedwas" actually means "grove, bank, or place of birch trees".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cwmfelinfach in Monmouthshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wentloog.
At the chapel Capel y Babell in Cwmfelinfach is the grave of the 19th-century Welsh-language poet William Thomas, pseudonym Islwyn. In childhood and youth, he attended schools in various South Welsh settlements, including Cowbridge (Vale of Glamorgan).
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Treorchy in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a highly-noted Male Voice Choir.
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Bishopbridge in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Ancholme.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gosberton in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chislet in Kent also has a church that is part of the Wantsum Benefice.
D6130
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Chislet was the location of one of the four collieries in the East Kent coalfield, which was developed in the inter-war years and employed miners made redundant in worked-out pits in other UK coalfields. Another of the Kent collieries was located at Tilmanstone.
DerekC
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Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, also has a pub called the Plough and Harrow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colwick in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.
Colwick lies on the River Trent; close by a weir thereon, at which the Environment Agency have plans to build a fish pass -- to help fish get by the weir and further upstream on their migratory journeys. We learn that salmon and eels are seen as especial "clients" here -- seems optimistic, particularly re the eels, which one gathers are highly endangered; however, more power to all concerned ! There is also a fish pass on the River Ottery at Otterton, East Devon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Looe in Conwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.
In 1625, Looe was raided by Barbary pirates; a venture partly thwarted by the people's having been forewarned -- many got out of town in time. The pirates still captured some eighty folk, and took them away into slavery. In that era, those gentry from the Mediterranean periodically gave trouble of this kind, far and wide around British coasts; according to the poem, it was known for Mablethorpe (Lincolnshire) to suffer their attentions.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Felixstowe in Suffolk was also affected by the effects of the North Sea flood of 1953.
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Wallis Simpson lived in Felixstowe for a while, to establish residency qualification to marry King Edward VIII. She had previously married Ernest Simpson at Chelsea Registry Office. And in a nice royal link, sort of, her first husband was called Earl Spencer.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bath also lends its name to a type of bun.
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Portsmouth also has a clean air zone (although not necessarily the same category)
D6130
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Dundee is linked by the Tay Bridge to Wormit in Fife.
John Griffiths
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Walker in Newcastle upon Tyne also sounds like something one would do to a dog.
D6130
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Brilliant! Like! Meanwhile....
Wallsend - close to Walker - was also a centre for shipbuilding and engineering....and indeed at one time for coal mining.
The Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunters' shipyard in Wallsend in 1916 -- 17, and used it as background for his anti-utopian novel We; which was a major influence on George Orwell for his Nineteen-Eighty-Four. In the last years of his life, shortly after World War II, Orwell (Eric Blair) dwelt for long periods while working on his tale of Big Brother etc.; at a remote spot near the north end of the island of Jura (Argyll and Bute) -- nearest "civilisation" to him on the island, being the hamlet of Ardlussa.
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