Xenophon PCDGS
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Bibury in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Coln.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldeburgh in Suffolk also has a Moot Hall.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hilperton in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Melksham.
Hilperton has a pub called the Lion and Fiddle (which I have seen with my own eyes) -- a seemingly unique "aggrandisement" of the more common Cat and Fiddle pub name. One of assorted settlements with pub with said, humdrum in comparison, name featuring Felis domesticus and the musical instrument concerned: is Kirk Hallam, in the south-east of Derbyshire.
Springs Branch
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Easington Colliery in County Durham is also located at longitude 1° 19' W.
The youngest (age 19) soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II -- Fusilier Dennis Donini; awarded posthumously, re an action on 18/1/1945 -- was born in Easington Colliery. A World War I posthumous-VC counterpart, can be seen as Jack Cornwell -- in the Navy, killed aged 16 at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 -- born in Leyton, now in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dagenham in its early days as a village was also once administered by the Hundred of Becontree.
John Griffiths
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Fulham also had its name added to that of a Greater London borough years after the 1965 reorganization (Barking & Dagenham LB was originally plain old Barking, and Hammersmith & Fulham just Hammersmith).
The theatrical manager and comic performer Samuel Foote (1720 -- 77) -- a "character of the most colourful", even for the 18th century; and probably best-known for his deathless snippet of nonsense prose involving, among much else, cabbage leaves and the grand Panjandrum; in the days of his success, had a -- then rural -- residence in Fulham, to supplement his town house in the metropolis. Part of Foote's education was at the collegiate school at Worcester; followed by a -- rather calamitous -- spell at Worcester College, Oxford University.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Maidstone in Kent was also the scene of a battle during the English Civil War.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brigstock in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Corby.
Springs Branch
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Lymm, Cheshire (OK, technically in the Borough of Warrington), also has a pub named The Green Dragon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stainforth in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Don.
According to Wiki, there was a time in the Middle Ages when Stainforth briefly "thrived" [throve?] as a commercial centre, and attracted traders from as far afield as the Isle of Axholme (inland -- not really an island) -- some ten miles to the east, and over the border in North Lincolnshire. A town in the Isle of Axholme, is Haxey.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Yawthorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dalton in South Yorkshire is another settlement to have constituent parts suffixed with Parva and with Magna.
The Clifton Park Museum near Dalton specialises in local borough history through the ages; and has exhibits of old toys. It is resembled in the latter aspect, by the Brighton (East Sussex) Toy and Model Museum: featuring "toy trains, puppets, toy theatres, aeroplanes, boats, etc.; and toys from circa 1820 -- 1960s".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stoke-on-Trent also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.
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Between 1979 and 1985, the British Darts Organisation's annual professional tournament was held in the smoky fug of Jollees Club in Stoke-on-Trent.
From 1986 to 2019, the competition's venue moved to the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey.
From 1986 to 2019, the competition's venue moved to the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Farnborough in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.
I have rather a fancy for hostelries with the names of people on the Parliamentarian side in the Civil War -- making a change from the seemingly endless commemoration of Charles II, a character whom I see no particular reason to idolise... Farnborough has a pub called the Tumble Down Dick -- nickname of Oliver Cromwell's much less forceful son-and-briefly-heir, Richard. Sharing the surname of a prominent Parliamentarian general -- admittedly, not the chap himself, but the family name of the local magnates -- is the Fairfax Arms, Gilling East, North Yorkshire (west of Malton).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lastingham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.
EbbwJunction1
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The Church of St. Mary, Lastingham attracts many visitors due to its rare Norman architecture and a crypt with an apsidal chancel. It contains
a War Memorial commemorating soldiers from the village of Lastingham and the nearby hamlet of Spaunton who served in the First World War.[12]
a War Memorial commemorating soldiers from the village of Lastingham and the nearby hamlet of Spaunton who served in the First World War.[12]
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mynachlog-ddu in Pembrokeshire also still has a surviving Court Leet.