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Lagg is also a coastal settlement on the east coast of the Isle of Jura.
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In the quite distant past, Lagg was the island terminal of a ferry from the Knapdale district of Argyll and Bute, on the mainland. A settlement in that district, is Ardrishaig (oddly enough, Knapdale and Ardrishaig featured briefly in the game about a week ago).
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Cairnbaan in Argyll and Bute also lies on the line of the Crinan Canal.
D6130
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Lymington in Hampshire is also a noted yachting centre.
Lymington's name is derived from the Ancient British lemanos = elm tree + Old English tun = farm or hamlet. A settlement name featuring the same kind of tree, is Elmswell, Suffolk -- between Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket. "Elmswell" comes from "elm" + Old English wella = spring or stream -- a spring or stream where elm trees grow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Menston in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Divine.
There is a bus service (infrequent, we learn) between Menston and Wetherby, run by an undertaking named Utopia. Another North of England pleasantly-fancifully-named bus outfit is Witch Way, which runs between Manchester and Burnley, Lancashire -- plus other routes. (A reference presumably, to the Pendle witches of long ago -- Old Chattox and all that.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunnockshaw in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Burnley Poor Law Union.
Also starting with a "folksy" name for a bird species (per Wiki, in both cases possibly the genuine derivation), is Owslebury, Hampshire -- a few miles north-east of Eastleigh. Re the Lancashire settlement: "dunnock" = hedge sparrow (ornithologists nowadays favour "dunnock" as the correct name). In Owslebury, one sees "ouzel": old word for blackbird.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ovington in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawley.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Anstruther in Fife also hosts an arts festival.
Hastings, East Sussex, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Pas-de-Calais. Anstruther's "twin" is Bapaume; Hastings's is Bethune. (Bapaume -- which isn't even on the coast -- is chiefly known for having had an extremely bad time in World War I, which I don't think Anstruther particularly did. One suspects sometimes, that town-twinnings are made on the basis of incongruity and dissimilarity, rather than things in common.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Society of Friends meeting house.
DerekC
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Kings Lynn, like Ipswich, was a trading outpost of the Hanseatic League, a confederation of towns and ports in central and northern Europe in mediaeval times.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lincoln was also the scene of anti-Semitic riots in 1190
John Griffiths
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Colchester was also a colonia, a settlement populated by former soldiers of the Roman army.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chester also has a Anglican cathedral with a detached bell tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Petersfield in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Rother.
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Petersfield has a statue of William III on horseback, sculpted by Henry Cheere, who also produced a funerary monument to the first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in the parish church at Edenham, Lincolnshire (appropriately enough in the Parts of Kesteven).
(Btw how is Kesteven pronounced? Long or short es, and where is the emphasis?)
(Btw how is Kesteven pronounced? Long or short es, and where is the emphasis?)
Shotwick, Cheshire -- west of Chester, on the English / Welsh border -- also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.
Per the understanding of it that I -- originally from Lincolnshire -- have: pronounced to rhyme with "pressed-a-wren" -- emphasis on first syllable.
John Griffiths
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Thank you. I shall no longer court mockery by talking about KeSTEPHEN.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brockholes, a small hamlet in Cheshire West and Chester, was also once under the jurisdiction of the Great Boughton Poor Law Union.
Before the 1970s' country-wide extensive changes to these things; Lincolnshire was in three parts ("Parts of..."): Lindsey (northern half of the county); Kesteven (its south-western bit); and Holland (south-eastern ditto, where I come from -- Lincolnshire's slice of the Fen country). There used to be a favourite "wind-up" aimed at people from elsewhere, concerning a mythical personage called Lindsey Kesteven.
"Houston, we have a problem", possibly -- the above-bolded seems to be such a very small hamlet, that none of the authorities to which I have access, appear to have heard of it ! There is however, another Brockholes not immensely far away: a village in the area of Kirklees Metropolitan Council, West Yorkshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Tyldesley in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St George.
DerekC
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Tyldesley rugby club plays Rugby Union. Their highest achievement was to lose 8-7 to Cullompton, Devon, in the 2008-2009 Senior Vase Final at Twickenham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Uffculme in Devon also lies on the line of the River Culm.