Mea maxima culpa -- I meant NEWTON STEWART. Sure an' I was afther mixing it up with the place in County Tyrone named Newtownstewart, with a "w" and all one word...I cannot trace a settlement called NEWTOWN STEWART....
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Rosehearty in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 17th century.
Rosehearty throve for centuries as a fishing port; and in that role -- approximately quoting Wiki -- "prior to the arrival of railways at Fraserburgh [Aberdeenshire -- some five miles east of Rosehearty], 'was set fit to rival it'. " However, opening in 1865 of line between Dyce Junction and Fraserburgh, rapidly sealed Rosehearty's fate fishing-wise. (Damned railways -- they've got a lot to answer for 
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Penlee in Cornwall was also the scene of a lifeboat disaster.
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Ardtalnaig in Perth and Kinross also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Rob Roy Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Swanlinbar in County Cavan also lies on the line of a river (Cladagh River) in which freshwater pearl mussels are to be found.
In past centuries there was at Swanlinbar an ironworks; to feed the furnaces of which, the local oak-woods were effectively destroyed. A similar situation came about, at roughly the same period, involving the ironworks which there was at Bonawe, Argyll and Bute.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilchrenan in Argyll and Bute also lies on the route of the B845 road.
In Kilchrenan's churchyard is the supposed tomb of Sir Colin More Campbell, killed in a battle between clans in the last years of the 13th century. A much later martial Colin Campbell was the Field-Marshal of that name, 1st Baron Clyde, 1792 -- 1863: who took part in sundry conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars, to the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. (He was born Colin MacIver -- there are various explanations for his name-change.) His military career began as a cadet at the then Royal Military and Naval Academy at Gosport, Hampshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunham Massey in Greater Manchester was also once the site of a temporary military hospital
D6130
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Spital, near Tweedmouth in Northumberland, is also the site of a micro-brewery.
Xenophon PCDGS
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The only settlement with the name of Spital that I am aware of is the one in the Wirral area of Merseyside. Did you mean to refer to the settlement of Spittal in Northumberland?
D6130
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Yes, sorry....a typo on my part! Spittal it is.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Duddo in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union.
Duddo had formerly, a church dedicated to St. James the Great; now a private house, having been superseded by the settlement's present church of All Saints. From point of view of the game, St. J. the G. is more fun than the ubiquitous All Saints: I'm therefore going for the former, not the latter. Long Marston, Warwickshire, (near Stratford-upon-Avon) has a -- still functioning -- church dedicated to St. James the Great.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pebworth in Worcestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Celfledetorn.
(My italics -- looks like a fictional country in Gulliver's Travels !)
Pebworth is one of the eight villages featuring -- with an adjective apiece -- in the little rhyme, attributed to Shakespeare, re villages round and about Stratford-upon-Avon. Another of these is Exhall, Warwickshire -- a couple of miles "per crow", south-east of Alcester. The rhyme calls it "dodging Exhall" -- this generally reckoned not an aspersion cast on the inhabitants' honesty; but to refer to the circumstance that, at any rate in Shakespeare's time, roads / tracks were such that access to the village was difficult either from Alcester or from Stratford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Elgin in Moray also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.
Elgin's War Memorial -- inaugurated 1921 -- was designed by Percy Portsmouth, an English-born "adopted Scot". It would be nicely symmetrical if at least one of the several war memorials in Portsmouth, had been designed by one Euan Elgin; but alas, it isn't so.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Norwich is another settlement with both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ironville in Derbyshire was also served by the Cromford Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marshfield in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Thornbury.
Wiki tells us that "for much of 1940, an address in Marshfield was home to several well-known cultural figures who were trying to escape the effects of the war". A list of these characters is then given -- nobody I'd ever heard of, except for Dylan Thomas and his wife. Another "cultural figure" who did similarly at that time was T.H. White, best known for his idiosyncratic take on the Arthurian legends -- his The Sword in the Stone novel series. White handled the matter by going and dwelling in the neutral Irish Free State throughout the war -- he lived near Trim, Co. Meath. (I'm not a very brave sort -- find it hard to blame these folk for doing as they did.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Drogheda in County Louth also lies on the line of the River Boyne.
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Blantyre in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.