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Xenophon PCDGS
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Stoke Holy Cross in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Das.
Stoke Holy Cross has a pub called -- honestly ! -- the Wildebeest Arms. Unsurprisingly, a pub name unique in Britain; but it has -- again, strange but true -- a counterpart at least in zoological terms (same animal, different names) in the shape of the Gnu Inn, North Newbald, East Riding of Yorkshire (a little way south of Market Weighton). The Yorkshire hostelry was formerly the New Inn -- a bit of wordplay, one gathers, on the part of those in charge, to make things more individual and interesting.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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South Newbald in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Harthill Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fridaythorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Yorkshire Wolds Way.
John Griffiths
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Fridaythorpe has hosted the Flat-cap throwing championships. That sport has also been practiced at Elvington, City of York.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bubwith in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
Bubwith is what I am inclined to call a "border town" -- just in the East Riding of Yorkshire: the boundary with North Yorkshire (formed by the Derwent) is paradoxically, just to its east. Another Yorkshire settlement in similar case, is Pool-in-Wharfedale -- barely in West Yorkshire: a very little way north, across the River Wharfe, is North Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blubberhouses in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wharfedale Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Blubberhouses parish church of St Andrews was designed by EB Lamb, one of a group of Victorian architects known as the 'rogues' for their eclectic approach to design. Lamb also designed Christ Church in West Hartlepool (now an art gallery)
Desperation department, rather: the painter Margaret Green (1925 -- 2003) was born in West Hartlepool. She died in Saxtead, Suffolk.
(Wiki's section on West Hartlepool says that the settlement was a "predecessor" of Hartlepool -- surely an incidence of "polar opposite of what meant" -- Hartlepool founded in the 7th century AD.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanddowror in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Teilo.
John Griffiths
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There is an inland resort in Uttarakhand, northern India, called Landour, named after Llanddowror. Another Indian location with the name of a British settlement is the Kolkata district of Hastings, albeit named after the somewhat dodgy East India Company chap, rather than directly after the East Sussex town.
(I've always liked the "hill resort" of Dalhousie, in India's part of the Himalayas: named after the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, family seat Dalhousie Castle just south of Edinburgh, Governor-General of India 1848 -- 56.)
"Big on the picture-postcard scene" has been for long -- since the very early 20th century -- Judges Postcards: founded by the prolific photographer Fred Judge (1872 -- 1950) -- headquarters originally in Hastings (where Judge did a great deal of his photography), though now in neighbouring St. Leonards-on-Sea. Another "postcard giant", roughly contemporary re starting-up of operations, in these more-easterly reaches of the south coast: is W.J. Nigh & Sons -- specialising in cards of Isle of Wight scenes; headquarters in Shanklin, I.O.W.
John Griffiths
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Scarborough in North Yorkshire also has a cliff lift
D6130
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Dunstanburgh in Northumberland also has a ruined castle on a headland overlooking the North Sea.
Xenophon PCDGS
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North Togston in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Snitter in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rothbury Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coanwood in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Haltwhistle Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Wallasey on the Wirral also has a religious building cared for by the Historic Chapels Trust (Coanwood: Friends Meeting House; Wallasey: Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oxton in Merseyside was also once under the jurisdiction of the Birkenhead Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Sir Patrick Abercrombie, probably Britain's most eminent town planner in the first half of the twentieth century, lived from 1915 to 1935 at 18 Village Road, Oxton. Of his plans, the one most fully executed was probably that for the blitzed city of Plymouth.
John Griffiths
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Peterborough was famously advertised as a location for business development by the late Roy Kinnear somewhat anachronistically dressed as a Roman soldier (the nearest Roman settle of note, Durobrivae, was five miles distant), using the slogan 'The Peterborough Effect'. Kinnear was born in Wigan.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Southsea in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Jude.