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Ibstock in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Market Bosworth Poor Law Union.
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We learn that the name Ibstock, derives from the Old English for "farmstead or hamlet of Ibba" -- a personal name from that era, also found in other toponyms. Not so, however -- it would seem -- concerning Ibsley, Hampshire (north of Ringwood). At the the time of the Domesday Book, this settlement was called Tibbeslei: "wood or clearing of Tibb" (unless it was basically the same name, with variants "down south" vis-a-vis further north? 
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Ibsley has a pub called the Old Beams Inn. A unique pub name, I thought with a sigh. But not a bit of it - there is also an Old Beams in, of all places, Milton Keynes.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aston Abbots in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Cottesloe.
The polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (1800 -- 1862) lived during the latter part of his life at Aston Abbots; and is buried there. Prior to that, he lived (when not exploring) in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich / London Borough of Lewisham.
John Griffiths
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Like Blackheath, Clifton in Bristol has a Georgian crescent named The Paragon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Falkirk in Stirlingshire also has a church named Christ Church.
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Anderton in Cheshire West & Chester is also the location of a working canal boat lift.
There are only two working boat lifts in the UK - one at Falkirk, the other at Anderton.
There are only two working boat lifts in the UK - one at Falkirk, the other at Anderton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oughtrington in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Bucklow.
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Southport in Merseyside also hosts a noted Flower Show.
Southport's lifeboat was involved in Britain's worst lifeboat disaster to date, in December 1886: boats from there, and Lytham and St. Anne's, were lost in the attempted rescue of a stricken vessel. Only two of the crew of the Southport lifeboat survived. Thirty years later, in October 1916, Salcombe in Devon was similarly afflicted. In an episode of error and unfortunate decision, the port's lifeboat was lost with, likewise, only two survivors among the crew.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Venn Ottery in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hundred of East Budleigh.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Papcastle in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Law Union.
Papcastle's Village Hall was inaugurated in 1895 by a local lady of means, Honora Wybergh, originally as a reading room for men only. (Various theories can be dreamed up, as to why Honora thus excluded her own gender.) The Garrick Club in Leicester Square, Westminster, London, still -- increasingly controversially -- restricts actual membership, to men.
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The Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster (a.k.a. Westminster Abbey) is a 'royal peculiar' - exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it lies and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch.
Another royal peculiar is the Church of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge.
Another royal peculiar is the Church of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanfihangel Tor-y-Mynydd in Monmouthshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Raglan.
John Wesley stayed in 1748 at Llanfihangel Tor-y-Mynydd's Star Inn (still in business today), describing it as "a good though small inn" -- presumably he required his liquid refreshment there, to be non-alcoholic. Wesley's experience of Walsall, West Midlands, a few years before, was less happy -- he was chased out of town by an angry mob.
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Southampton also has a Sikh temple.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Great Yarmouth also has a Pleasure Beach facility.
D6130
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Campbeltown in Argyll & Bute was also once a noted herring-fishing port.
Campbeltown lays some claim to being the westernmost town -- as opposed to simply "settlement" -- in the island of Great Britain; but there is some "doubt / dissension / rival claimants" here, re status, size, etc. As regards Great Britain's easternmost settlement (of whatever size), things are simpler: it is by universal acclaim, Lowestoft (Suffolk).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kessingland in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland.
There is at Kessingland, a zoological park named "Africa Alive" -- devoted, as the name would suggest, to African fauna. Chester Zoo is in the process of setting up a large and ambitious section, replicating an African grassland area inhabited by appropriate creatures.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cartmel in Cumbria also has a racecourse.
D6130
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Bridlington in East Yorkshire also has a priory church.