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Xenophon PCDGS
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From posting # 32,219.
Shifnal in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
Shifnal in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
John Griffiths
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Zut alors!
It would appear that Shifnal is quite likely the model for -- in P.G. Wodehouse's comic novels -- the town of Market Blandings: nearest civilised outpost for his character, the pig-mad Lord Emsworth. Another fictional location for Wodehouse's material, is the village of Steeple Bumpleigh in Hampshire: name thought borrowed from Steeple Bumpstead in Essex (near Haverhill). (All this stuff new to me -- not a Wodehouse fan; I'd kind-of imagined that all rural doings in his fiction, took place in the Home Counties.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Little Yeldham in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Hinckford
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Regarding village names of the made-up comedy variety, who can ever forget the radio programme about Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.
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Regarding village names of the made-up comedy variety, who can ever forget the radio programme about Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.
DerekC
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Little Yeldham has a "Bendysh House" which I thought must be a unique name, but in fact it is a well known alternative spelling of the surname Bendish, which is associated with many places, most obviously the village of Bendish in Hertfordshire.
Another settlement whose name is suggestive of a "likening-to" adjective: is Beamish, County Durham -- location, of course, of the celebrated "Living Museum of the North".
(Also -- "beamish" is a word -- adjectival -- in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky. One wonders: did old Lewis dream the word up independently; or was he aware of the Co. Durham settlement?)
(Also -- "beamish" is a word -- adjectival -- in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky. One wonders: did old Lewis dream the word up independently; or was he aware of the Co. Durham settlement?)
Xenophon PCDGS
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No Place in County Durham also lies within the area of the Beamish Burn Conservation Area.
John Griffiths
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No Place is also known as Co-operative Villas - the housing was built by a local co-operative society, a part of the movement founded in its modern form in 1844 in Rochdale, Lancashire (Greater Manchester).
County Durham seems rather to specialise in strangely-named settlements. Pity Me -- which we've had in the past in this game -- comes to mind; and I have a liking for the tiny place with what strikes me as a rather magnificent name -- Towdy Potts.
Bradford, West Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Nord. Rochdale's twin is Tourcoing; Bradford's is Roubaix.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hunsworth in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bradford Poor Law Union.
D6130
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Castleford in West Yorkshire also has historical associations with the glass-making industry. (Sorry....my phone seems to be on strike from doing bold letters and emojis!)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Owston in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Osgoldcross Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ludlow in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Teme.
Prince Arthur -- Henry VII's first and not-very-long-lived son (if he had survived and become king, instead of his younger brother who became Henry VIII, history might have been a good deal different) died in Ludlow, aged fifteen, in 1502. He was born in Winchester -- location for the event, planned and arranged as a propaganda exercise (King Arthur / "Camelot" stuff) by his ingenious and highly calculating dad.
DerekC
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The thing that most visitors to Winchester see first is the statue of King Alfred in the middle of the road outside the Guildhall. There is a smaller statue of the same king, also in the middle of the road, at Pewsey in Wiltshire.
One of Pewsey's several pubs is called the Moonrakers (allusion, it would seem, to the folk tradition -- found in various parts of Britain, but particularly associated with Wiltshire -- about rustic dimwits seeking to capture the moon, by raking its reflected image out of a body of water). The word was taken up by Ian Fleming for one of his earlier James Bond novels, Moonraker: that being the title of "a prototype missile designed to defend Britain". Fleming (1908 -- 64) died in Canterbury, Kent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lower Hardres in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Bridge and Petham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilkeel in County Down also lies on the route of the A2 road (Northern Ireland)
A possible connection with the infamous "Burke and Hare" -- early-19th-century murderers who operated in the Edinburgh area, and supplied their victims' corpses to anatomists. The pair -- William Burke and William Hare -- both originally hailed from what is now Northern Ireland. Burke was hanged in 1829, in Edinburgh; Hare escaped execution by turning "King's evidence": his fate is uncertain -- but according to one tradition, he died in Kilkeel.
DerekC
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Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh has an analogue in the mountain Cader Idris, both being giant sized seating for legendary Celtic warlords. The nearerst settlement to Cader Idris is Llanfihangel -y-Pennant, Gwynedd
Trying to avoid a certain young lady and a certain holy book -- a fair bit of coverage thereto, given in this game in the past -- Workington, Cumbria, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cockermouth in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
There is in Cockermouth a commemorative statue of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822 -- 72) -- MP for Cockermouth 1857 -- 68; before which he had a spell as MP for Coleraine, Co. Londonderry. (The gentleman was briefly, at the end of his life, Viceroy of India: cut short on a visit to the penal settlement of the Andaman Islands, where he was murdered by a disgruntled convict -- nothing personal, the guy was just targeting British officials: any of such, would do.)
DerekC
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Ulster University has its main campus in Coleraine. It has a sports campus at Jordanstown, Co Antrim.
The village of Jordans (in Buckinghamshire, near the Chalfonts) is reckoned to owe its name -- as with the Antrim settlement -- to persons with the surname Jordan. Re Jordanstown: name taken from that of the 12th-century Anglo-Norman colonising family who founded the place. Jordans, Bucks., grew up around the centuries-old Jordans Farm: early owner or occupier of which, figured to have been named Jordan.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lancaster also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends.