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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tetney in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Bradley-Haverstoe Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Tetney is Tetney Marshes Nature Reserve: valued by ornithologists as a habitat of the -- rather scarce in Britain -- little tern (Sternula albifrons). Another good site for this bird, is Pagham Harbour (West Sussex -- south of Chichester).

 

[DerekC]

Off Pagham you can see at low water one of the 212 "Phoenix" caissons which were constructed to build the Mulberry harbours in 1944, supporting the D-Day invasion of France. Others have been used for sea defences as far apart as Sweden and Iceland. Two form part of the harbour near Castletown on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

 

[johnnychips]

Park Hill, in Sheffield, is also a place where abandoned flats have been stripped down and refurbished into upmarket apartments.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[D6130]

Tavistock in Devon also has a Goose Fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sampford Spiney in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tavistock Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Altarnun (Cornwall, Bodmin Moor) also has a Grade 1 listed church, mentioned in Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn, as it is finally revealed that the vicar was the leader of the band of smugglers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altarnum (Cornwall, Bodmin Moor) also has a Grade 1 listed church, mentioned in Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn, as it is finally revealed that the vicar was the leader of the band of smugglers.

Is this another name for Altarnun?

 

[Calthrop]

Altarnun (Cornwall, Bodmin Moor) also has a Grade 1 listed church, mentioned in Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn, as it is finally revealed that the vicar was the leader of the band of smugglers.

With me, as we know, "twinnings is winnings"... Mumbles (Swansea) is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Morbihan. Altarnun's "twin" is Gueltas; Mumbles's, is Hennebont.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a Grade II listed pier.

 

[Calthrop]

A line drawn between Lavernock Point, two miles south of Penarth; and Sand Point, Somerset -- about the same distance north of Weston-Super-Mare -- marks the lower limit of the Severn Estuary, and the start of the Bristol Channel. Nearest settlement to Sand Point: is Wick St. Lawrence, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rowberrow in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Winterstoke.

 

[Calthrop]

Marbury, Cheshire -- south-west of Nantwich -- also has a pub called the Swan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rostherne in Cheshire East also has a mere with its environs.

 

[DerekC]

The Roman Road from Chester to Manchester, designated 7a by Ivan D Margary in his famous book on the subject, passes just to the west of Rostherne. Nearing Chester it crossed the River Gowy at Stamford Bridge, close to the village of Great Barrow, Cheshire West.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Groton in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Calthrop]

The parish of Groton includes the hamlet of Gosling Green. There is also a Goose Green (as well as the site of what befell in the Falklands): it's a park in East Dulwich, London Borough of Southwark.

 

[Class172]

The presence of the dill plant is purported to be an etymological source for the name of Dulwich; the same can also be said for the village of Dilham in Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Antingham in Norfolk was also served by the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Antingham lies -- just -- on the A149 road; as does Thornham, Norfolk (a few miles east of Hunstanton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crimplesham in Norkfolk also has a post-mounted decorated and illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Born at Crimplesham -- son of the local landowner -- was Francis Dereham, courtier at King Henry VIII's court: who became embroiled in doings involving Henry's fifth queen, Catherine Howard, and her infidelity to Henry; both were executed at Henry's behest. Catherine Howard was born in Lambeth (London Borough of...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wandsworth in south-west London was also once administered by the medieval Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Calthrop]

At Wandsworth, the River Wandle flows into the Thames. Izaak Walton (c.1593 -- 1683), "Britain's most famous recreational fisherman", writes in his masterwork The Compleat Angler, of fishing on the Wandle. His prime favourite fishing river, however, is generally reckoned to have been the River Dove in the Peak District; on which lies Mapleton, Derbyshire (near Ashbourne).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kniveton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirksworth.

 

[johnnychips]

Cromford is also on the 110/111 bus route between Matlock and Ashbourne.

 

[341o2]

Kniveton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirksworth.

I was going to reply but them I had second thoughts, so I won't bother

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cromford is also on the 110/111 bus route between Matlock and Ashbourne.

Ambergate in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Cromford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Ambergate in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Cromford Canal.

Admittedly a favourite theme of mine -- seemingly or actually animal-related place-names (which tend to be more often "seemingly", than actually", so). Ambergate's name is a relatively recent one: until the early 19th century, the settlement was called Toadmoor (there is still in fact a hamlet of that name, in the vicinity). According to Wiki, this used to be interpreted as a dialect version of "the old moor"; more recent scholarship suggests that the name in fact comes from a one-time local feature of a pool or mire frequented by toads. Some twenty miles to the west, and among basically the same highland area: is another settlement with an "amphibian-ish" name -- Froghall, Staffordshire (Wiki has nothing to say about the origin of this one).