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[Calthrop]

Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, also lies on the River Wharfe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halkyn in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Halkyn formerly had numerous pubs; the majority now "repurposed" -- one such, being that which was known as the Raven. Corby, Northamptonshire, has (still) a Raven Hotel.

 

[D6130]

Glengarnock in Ayrshire was also once a major centre of the steel industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire also lies on the line of the River Garnock.

 

[D6130]

Scottish character actor Jameson Clark - who starred in the 1949 film version of Compton Mackenzie's comic novel 'Whisky Galore' - was born and died in Kilbirnie. The film was mainly shot in and around Castlebay on the Isle of Barra.

 

[John Griffiths]

George Woulfe Brennan was an Oban-based architect who designed the Catholic church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea in Castlebay. He also designed St Bride's church, West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

Most of Woulfe Brennan's work was done in Oban, and he was seemingly not fussy or stuck-up about what he took on. According to the excellent Dictionary of Scottish Architects website, his commissions in the town ranged from 'Sheriff courthouse and county buildings' to 'Garage, Combie Street' and 'Shed and sawbench'

 

[D6130]

Italian-Scots classical violinist Nicola Benedetti was born in West Kilbride. She was educated at the Wellington School in Ayr.

 

[Calthrop]

Douglas, Isle of Man, also has a Gaiety Theatre.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Catholic church of St Mary of the Isle in Douglas was this week raised to the status of cathedral by Pope Francis; it will be co-cathedral with the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fleetwood also has a cross-river ferry service.

 

[Calthrop]

Bill Bryson, in Notes from a Small Island, writes approvingly of Fleetwood; or at any rate, of the view northward therefrom across the bay to the Lakeland hills. Bryson is, in the book, rather ambivalent about Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[John Griffiths]

Calamine - zinc ore - was also mined at Malham in Yorkshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gisburn, formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but since translated to Lancashire, was also once administered by the West Division of the Staincross Wapentake.

 

[DerekC]

Gisburn was an alternative name for the town of Guisborough in North Yorkshire, so the village in Lancashire was sometimes referred to as "Gisburn in Craven".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whorlton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Langbaugh Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Whorlton has a Church of the Holy Rood. Stirling's venerable medieval parish church (for those thereabouts, who like that kind of thing) is similarly named / dedicated; but its official designation, is the Church of the Holy Rude (as in indecorous) -- same derivation, one takes it: "rood" -- old word for cross. (The Wiki article on this church, seemed to me a bit suspect [some prankster sneaking nonsensical stuff in?] -- but checking elsewhere on the Net, "Rude" it indeed is.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peebles in Scottish Borders was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Peebles's coat of arms shows on the shield, three salmon. This; and the motto, Contra Nando Incrementum = "there is growth by swimming against the stream"; refer to the annual migration of salmon up the River Tweed (on which Peebles lies) to breed. The coat of arms of Bournemouth also features salmon: four of them, but on just one quarter of the c. of a.'s shield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morecambe in Lancashire also has a noted art-deco hotel.

 

[Calthrop]

Morecambe's name is derived from that of the one-time Roman settlement on the site: Moriancabris AEsturus. Similarly with Loughor, Swansea: from Leucarum.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hexham, Northumberland, also has a pub called The Globe Inn.

 

[D6130]

Romsey in Hampshire also has an abbey which became the town's parish church after the reformation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leckford in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Test.

 

[Calthrop]

Timsbury, Hampshire -- near Romsey (and also close by the River Test) also lies on the A3057 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockbridge in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of King's Sombourne.

 

[Calthrop]

Lillie Langtry -- one of Edward VII's numerous mistresses, though she was also active in assorted other areas in her long life -- lived for a while in Stockbridge. With her being born, in 1853, in St. Saviour parish in Jersey; she was known as "the Jersey Lily".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanllwni in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanilar, Ceredigion -- a few miles south-east of Aberystwyth -- also lies on the A485 road.