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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Monken Hadley in the London Borough of Barnet was also once administered by the Hundred of Edmonton.

 

[Calthrop]

Spike Milligan (author / versifier / actor / comedian / generally marvellously crazy person) lived at the house Monkenhurst -- overlooking Monken Hadley Common -- from 1974 to 2002. His grave is in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upholland in West Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas the Martyr.

 

[Calthrop]

Place-names and their derivations -- "rarely the obvious" -- Upholland's name is nothing to do with enthusiastic partisanship in support of the Netherlands: the "Holland" part is reckoned to come from the Old English hohland = "land on or by a hoe or spur of a hill". Upholland has a definitely-separate "quasi-twin" ten miles to its west: Downholland Cross, West Lancashire (between Ormskirk and Formby) -- "Holland" section of name, likely similarly derived.

 

[John Griffiths]

Barnoldswick, since 1974 governed as part of Lancashire (but really in Yorkshire) also lies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnsall in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the East Division of the Staincliffe Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Also on the Dales Way long-distance footpath from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere: is Staveley, Cumbria (a few miles east of Bowness).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ings in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Gowan.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ings has a pub named The Watermill Inn; Dorking in Surrey has a pub named The Watermill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pulborough in West Sussex also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cheddar in Somerset also holds official lawn mower racing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[Calthrop]

Felixstowe, Suffolk, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Leicester's "twin" is Krefeld; Felixstowe's, Wesel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killiney in County Dublin was also chosen as a straregic place in which to erect a Martello Tower.

 

[Calthrop]

The playwright and general "pundit" George Bernard Shaw spent his childhood and adolescence in Killiney. He dwelt for most of the latter half-century of his long life, in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan in Greater Manchester also has a hostelry named The Brocket Arms.

 

[Calthrop]

Various town names, largely in England's "mid-north", feature in one way or another in the Wallace and Gromit "claymation" films. Examples: the inventive twosome live at no. 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan; and among the unlucky-in-love episodes to which Wallace seems to be doomed, is his engagement to a lady with surname borrowed from Bakewell, Derbyshire -- Piella of that name, who alas turns out to be a serial killer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tideswell in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

 

[Calthrop]

The action of the grisly tale of the farmer who solved the problem of his cow's getting its head stuck between two bars of a gate, by sawing the cow's head off (whether from cluelessness, or because the gate was more valuable than the cow) is alternatively recounted as happening in Tideswell; or in Westhoughton, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gresford in Wrexham County Borough was also the scene of a mining disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Letterkenny in County Donegal also lies on the route of the N13 national primary road.

 

[Calthrop]

Letterkenny reputedly has the longest Main Street in Ireland. Wales's longest High Street (one figures -- same thing, different adjective) is considered to be that of Bangor, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasinfryn in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Cegin.

 

[John Griffiths]

Glasinfryn, like Bethesda, Gwynedd, lies on the route of the B3 bus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwmstradllyn in Gwynedd is also an area connected to slate quarrying.

 

[Calthrop]

The road-and-lane route to Cwmstradllyn, is described as via Garndolbenmaen (all north-to-north-west of Porthmadog). Have remarked some months back, on the curious popularity of the pub name "Cross Foxes" in the northern parts of Wales: Garndolbenmaen has had pubs, now defunct, called both that; and another called the Cross Pipes. Otley, West Yorkshire, also has a (still active) Cross Pipes pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swillington in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

One might feel facetiously, that Swillington would be a nice place to dwell if one were a pig... interestingly, the name is thought probably to have a porcine derivation, from Old English swin = pig, -ing (place-name indicator) and either leah = open ground, or hyll = hill. Swindon, Wiltshire (Borough of...) is reckoned likely to be similarly derived; from, again, Old English swin, plus dun: alternative word for "hill".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas