There are two notorious "ships' graveyards" -- treacherous stretches of coast, with high risk of getting wrecked -- not hugely far from each other, but on the respectively largest, and second-largest, islands of our archipelago; and both featuring as a particularly dangerous element, an offshore rock / shoal: these, oddly, much resembling each other name-wise. One, off the dangerous coastal reach near Wick, is the Tusker Rock; the other, off Rosslare in Co. Wexford, is the Tuskar Rock.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Holyhead is also a ferry port that serves Irish Sea sailings.
John Griffiths
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Holy Island village, Northumberland, is, like Holyhead, located on an island named Holy Island.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sunderland on Sunderland Point in Lancashire is also accessed by a causeway crossing.
England has perhaps more Sunderlands, than one might at first imagine (the name, very much a Northern speciality). As well as the above-mentioned near Heysham; and the estimable Tyne and Wear city; there is the hamlet of Sunderland in Cumbria, five miles south-east of Aspatria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cloffocks in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Cloffocks used to be the location of an ancient game of football, by the mid nineteenth century played between local miners and sailors, on Easter Tuesday. "Every exertion is made on both sides; they haul and pull one another about like demented men, in many cases tearing each others clothes to pieces..." (Whelan's History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, 1860).Similar games are played in places such as Alnwick, Atherstone and Corfe Castle, and one has been revived in recent years in Winchelsea, East Sussex.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Rhuddlan in Denbighshire also had a Town Ditch as part of its medieval defences.
John Griffiths
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Philip Jones Griffiths (no relation), born Rhuddlan 1936, became an influential photojournalist with the Magnum agency, remembered especially for his work documenting the Vietnam war. He died in the west London district of Shepherds Bush in 2008.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Upleatham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Eastern Division of the Langbargh Wapentake.
John Griffiths
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St Andrew's church in Upleatham is thought to be the second smallest in England; the smallest is that at Bremliham, Foxley, Wiltshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Durrington in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kingston Deverill in Wiltshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Mid Wilts Way.
johnnychips
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Whittington, in Worcestershire, also has an ancient burial mound.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Alderley Edge in Cheshire East also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Philip & St James.
D6130
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Formby in Merseyide is also an affluent centre of residence for grossly overpaid (IMHO) professional footballers.
Our friend Percy French: creator of Are Ye Right There, Michael? and numerous other entertaining ditties -- who seems quite often to show up in this game -- died in 1920 in Formby, far from home; and is buried there. Among the Irish settlements featuring in his works, is Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mullagh in County Cavan also lies on the route of the R 194 regional road.
A far-fetched one, if you like -- Jonathan Swift (1667 -- 1745), Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, and renowned author and satirist: wrote parts of his Gulliver's Travels and The Tale of a Tub, while staying with a friend at Mullagh. Swift's mother came from Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire -- one of my very favourite English place-names.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thrussington in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Wreake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Landican in Merseyside was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.
John Griffiths
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Barlanark in Glasgow also has a cemetery that opened in 1934: the Glenduffhill Cemetery of the Glasgow Hebrew Burial Society.
Resorting again to one of my favourite defaults -- name-derivations... Barlanark's name is reckoned likely to be a hybrid of elements from the old Gaelic, and Brythonic, tongues: "the *** ? at the clearing (lanerc -- as in the town of Lanark, to the south-east) -- the "Bar" bit, possibly a Gaelicisation of the Brythonic baed = boar. As mentioned on previous occasions in the game: zoological-seeming place names are sometimes (as maybe here) actually so -- but more usually, not. As with Bearpark, County Durham (just west of Durham city) -- the scholars think the name probably nothing to do with Bruin, Paddington, & Co.; but to be a corruption of the French Beau Repaire = beautiful retreat. (Around Durham, they seem to like mangling the French lingo: witness the settlement of Pity Me, a couple of miles away -- a possible corruption of Petite Mer = little sea.)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Crickhowell in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Edmund.
The wondrously-named Tiggy Legg-Bourke (real given name, Alexandra) -- one-time royal nanny, with some involvement in the "causes celebres" to do with the royal family over the years -- was born near Crickhowell, and now lives in the area, running a b & b business. Her schooldays were at Heathfield School, Ascot, Berkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheffield also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.