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Pittenweem in Fife also hosts an Arts Festival.
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In 1779 the United States Ship Bonhomme Richard, under the command of John Paul Jones, anchored briefly off Pittenweem a few days before the Battle of Flamborough Head. The battle (between units of the Royal Navy and the fledgling United States Navy) resulted in a kind of victory for Jones, although the Bonhomme Richard sank afterwards and he had to transfer to a captured British ship. Jones, widely regarded as the founder of the US Navy, was of Scottish origins. His birthplace was near Kirkbean in Dumfries and Galloway.
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New Abbey in Dumfries and Galloway also lies on the route of the A710 road.
Sir William Paterson (1658 -- 1719) -- co-founder of the Bank of England, and a prominent figure in the disastrous attempt to set up a Scottish colony in Darien (Panama) is thought by many, to be buried in New Abbey -- though there is apparently no certainty as to where his resting-place is. In his youth, Paterson lived briefly in Bristol.
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Lancaster was also the name given to a bomber during WWII
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Great Burdon in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Skerne.
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Camborne in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
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Porthmadog in Gwynedd also has a maritime museum.
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Llanrhidian on the Gower Peninsula was also once administered by the Hundred of Swansea.
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Gilfach Goch in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.
Gilfach Goch has a pub called the Griffin. Thinking of Alice's Wonderland chums -- a "Mock Turtle" pub proved too much to hope for; but Reading, Berkshire, has a Purple Turtle Bar. (I see I've "been here before" -- but about another "Griffin" pub; which I linked up with Leamington Spa's "Mock Turtle Restaurant"; this time, though, I wanted specifically a pub of that name.)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Thirsk in North Yorkshire also has a Quaker School.
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Abbots Worthy was also once administered by the Hundred of Meonstroke
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Stratton in Cornwall was also the scene of a battle during the First English Civil War.
A little seeming confusion about the name of the short river on which Stratton lies (river reaches the sea at neighbouring Bude). River's original -- maybe still alternative -- anyway, older; name: is the Neth. "Back-formation" has happened re river's other name -- bestowed on the river, being borrowed from the settlement: viz. the River Strat. A similar process has happened with Chelmsford, Essex: on the River Chelmer -- river having been named after the town, not vice versa.
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Tonbridge in Kent also has a grammar school that was founded by King Edward VI.
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Hordle in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Christchurch.
I can never resist this one: it's a real settlement, which gets at any rate a glancing mention in Conan Doyle's (non-Holmes) fiction. Occurs in his war-and-adventure medieval historical novels: a character in which, is a chum of the hero Alleyne Edricson -- one Hordle John (so-called because he comes from the above-bolded settlement) -- a physical, but not a mental, giant; an amiable soul, however. There is also a reference to a "real place", in Doyle's short story The Lost Special: Kenyon (Cheshire -- on the Lancashire border; north of Warrington) -- precise reference there, in fact to its one-time station Kenyon Junction, on the LNWR's system.
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Culcheth in the borough of Warrington was also once under the jurisdiction of the Leigh Poor Law Union.
Black Sheep Wools, "the UK's largest yarn and stitching store", has its premises in Culcheth. The cheesemakers Caws Cenarth -- based at Cenarth, Carmarthenshire (a little way west of Newcastle Emlyn) -- produce a type of cheese which they call "Black Sheep".
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Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi.
There were numerous reports in the latish 20th / early 21st centuries of what seemed to be a mysterious big cat -- definitely not in the list of native British species -- roaming around the area of Pontrhydfendigaid and carrying out a considerable degree of sheep-slaughter: it was dubbed "the Beast of Bont". Another kind-of-reported "alien big cat" happening, also in Wales but very long ago -- told of in a Medieval Welsh poem in the Black Book of Carmarthen. The tale here is of a monstrous cat which roamed Anglesey until it was slain by the hero Cei. In the Welsh Triads, this creature is said to be the offspring of the monstrous sow Henwen -- someone in the Middle Ages was a better bard, than biologist.