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Deene in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the waterway known as the Willow Brook.
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Finding little or nothing potentially to say about Deene -- hope that I may be permitted perhaps to bend the rules a little: between King's Cliffe and Deene lies, on that same Willow Brook, the splendidly-named village of Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire. Speculating on name's origin, Wiki muses: "including 'bladder-plant specialised farm'; a form of the name 'blackthorn'; or 'settlement where bladderwort grows' ". You couldn't make it up...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gretton in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Corby.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Godmanstone in Dorset was also once administered by the tri-partite Hundred of Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury.
Godmanstone used to have a pub, The Smith's Arms (now closed), which claimed to be the smallest in Britain. (Complicated tale involving Charles II, about the hostelry's original coming to be.) There is another Smith's Arms -- a prestigious pub / restaurant -- at or near Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire (a few miles north of Pontardulais).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandudno also has a noted building in the Art Deco Style.
D6130
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Laxey, on the Isle of Man, is also the starting point of a mountain tramway.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Perranzabuloe in Cornwall also has historical lonks to silver mining.
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Perranzabuloe boasts a plen-an-gwary (an area used in past times for recreation - plays and sports) in the form of St Piran's Round (a prehistoric enclosure). The only other plen-an-gwary to survive in a recognisable form is at St Just in Penwith, also in Cornwall.
Another "twinning" one by me: one I can't resist (see onward). Great Torrington, Devon, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Finistere. St. Just in Penwith's "twin" is Huelgoat; Great Torrington's is Roscoff. (I had to have Huelgoat, because of its having been served "back in the day" by the Carhaix -- Morlaix line of the metre-gauge Reseau Breton.)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheepwash in Devon also lies on the line of the River Torridge.
The Half Moon Inn in Sheepwash has fishing rights -- of which guests can avail themselves -- on several miles of the mentioned River Torridge. Fermoy, Co. Cork, has a Georgian-country-house guest-house with fishing rights in similar wise on the adjacent River Blackwater.
D6130
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Kirkstall in West Yorkshire was also the site of a Cistercian abbey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skipton in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.
D6130
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Appleby-in-Westmorland also has a castle formerly belonging to the Clifford family.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ballyclare in County Antrim also hosts a horse fair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bobbing in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Milton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dromore in County Down also lies on the line of the River Lagan.
DerekC
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From Dromore you can catch Ulsterbus 38 to Lisburn, County Antrim
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newry is the other city in Ulster to be granted city status in 2002.
Chester has a -- fairly small and tucked-away -- street called Newry Park; presumably after the Ulster settlement. (The house where dwelt my mother and her brothers, and their parents, was in Newry Park; I stayed there in early childhood, on some family holidays.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shocklach in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.
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Thixendale in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the Sykes Churches Trail.
Thixendale's Cross Keys pub is a regular winner of local CAMRA awards. Fulstow, Lincolnshire -- in between Grimsby and Louth -- also has a Cross Keys pub, which would seem run-of-the-mill in comparison (but is said to be the nearest pub to the preserved Lincolnshire Wolds Railway).
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Warkworth in Northumberland also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.
D6130
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Bamburgh - also in Northumberland - also has a large Norman castle.