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Pattiswick in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Braintree Poor Law Union.
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Pattiswick has a -- seemingly quite up-market -- pub / hotel called The Compasses. This turns out to be a name for hostelries more often met with, up and down England, than I had imagined. Another settlement with a thus-named pub is Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
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Upavon in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.
Most of the activity at Upavon's once very busy RAF airfield, is now to do with gliders / gliding. Another well-appointed gliding venue is that of the gliding club of Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire -- on the road between Leicester and Northampton.
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Arthingworth in Northamptonshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Market Harborough Poor Law Union.
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Historian WG Hoskins died in Cullompton in 1992. He was born in Exeter in 1908, and is best known for his work as Professor of English Local History at Leicester University.
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Armagh is also twinned with a settlement in Bulgaria. Leicester's "twin" is Haskovo; Armagh's is Razgrad.
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Kinsale in County Cork also has a sailing school.
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Tallow in County Waterford also has a place of worship called The Church of the Immaculate Conception.
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Shanballymore in County Cork also has an accredited GAA club.
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Windsor in Berkshire also has a pub named the Corner House.
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Harbledown in Kent also had a leper hospital in medieval times.
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The playwright and poet Aphra Behn was baptised in Harbledown; she is buried in Westminster Abbey, Central London.
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Cambridge is another location having a royal peculiar (in this case the Church of St Edward King and Martyr).
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Ballymoney in County Antrim also hosts a drama festival.
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CULLYBACKEY in Co. Antrim also has an Orange Hall.
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Randalstown in County Antrim also lies on the line of the River Main.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne has also, in the course of its history, undergone a change of name: in the 11th century -- was previously Monkchester. Randalstown was Mullynieren until 1667: when it was created a free borough, and got its new name in honour of the marriage of Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquis of Antrim, to Rose O'Neill of nearby Shane's Castle.
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Belfast also has "heraldic" seahorses on its city coat of arms.
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Walsingham in Norfolk also has a Russian Orthodox church.
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The Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham was the premier place for pilgrimage in England throughout the Middle Ages, rivalling Canterbury and the great shrines of Europe.
The oldest continually visited pilgrimage site in Britain is claimed to be St Winefrede’s Well at Holywell, Flintshire.
The oldest continually visited pilgrimage site in Britain is claimed to be St Winefrede’s Well at Holywell, Flintshire.
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Llanasa in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Holywell Poor Law Union.
Scraping the barrel, rather: just west of Llanasa village is the 16th-century mansion and estate of Golden Grove, and its spacious estate; long owned by the Morgan family -- now a luxury hotel. Namesakes department: a lot further south in Wales -- in Carmarthenshire, four miles south-west of Llandeilo -- there is another Golden Grove. Primarily again a "big house", with a long, complicated history (now, a potential artistic-and-cultural-activities venue); but according to the road atlas, this Golden Grove also counts as a hamlet in its own right.
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Llangathen in Carmarthenshire also has a noted Grade II* listed mansion.
The above mansion, Aberglasney, lies at the foot of Grongar Hill: subject of a poem by the clergyman, painter, and poet (writing in English, though he came from this part of Wales) John Dyer (1699 -- 1757). In the course of a life spent in many different places, Dyer had a spell as resident Anglican clergyman in several settlements in Lincolnshire -- which he disliked -- silly man, but admittedly I'm biased. One of these places where he was "stationed" was Kirkby on Bain, near Woodhall Spa.