Orchard Portman's name is derived from the medieval local magnates de Orchard, and Portman -- the two families united by marriage, some time "back then". The de Orchard family's coat of arms depicts three pears -- one reckons, a bit of heraldic-type punning here. The coat of arms of Worcester also features -- here, among other devices -- a shield adorned with three pears.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Charlton Horethorne in Somerset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Monarch's Way.
Pubs again -- Charlton Horethorne has one called the Kings Arms: most likely, one feels, commemorating the same Monarch as commemorated by the mentioned Way. England has, of course, a huge number of pubs bearing that name -- maybe not all of them referring specifically to merry old Chas. A settlement a definitely long way from Somerset, with a Kings Arms pub: is Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.
"Reaching" somewhat (this is a town I always have a problem with in "Settlement Association") -- Dunmore East, Co. Waterford (some eight miles south-east of Waterford city) also has, kind-of, a namesake settlement in the Bahamas. The Scottish settlement's namesake is indeed Dumfries; the Irish one's is Dunmore Town.
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Dunmore East is served by Bus Eireann route 354, which starts (or finishes) in the town, and runs via Waterford to Carrick-on-Suir.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dalkeith in Midlothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.
A feature of Dalkeith in times past, was a sequence of female town criers: the most noteworthy of whom would seem to have been one Beetty Dick (1693 -- 1773). Rye, East Sussex, has at the present day, a female town crier (this showed up in this game about a year ago).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Udimore in East Sussex was also one under the jurisdiction of the Rye Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Staplecross in East Sussex is another of the three settlements in the Ewhurst civil parish area.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Farleton in Cumbria was also once served by the northern section of the Lancaster Canal that is no longer in use.
Farleton had in the distant past -- long since turned into a private dwelling -- a pub called The Duke; referring, it is thought, to the renownedly altitudinally-challenged Grand Old Duke of York. Pubs with the full name of Duke of York, are of course numerous in this country; there is one in Ditchingham, Norfolk -- adjacent to Bungay, Suffolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Norton Subcourse in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Loddon and Clavering Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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St Mary's Church, Norton Subcourse is one of 124 existing Round-tower churches in Norfolk; another one is St Protase and St Gervase, Little Plumstead.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Strumpshaw in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Blofield Poor Law Union.
(My italics) -- isn't that a Bond villain?
There is also a museum of "things steam-powered" -- largely road vehicles -- at Hollycombe near Liphook, Hampshire.
EbbwJunction1
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Liphook and Ripsley Cricket Club are members of the Southern Premier Cricket League. The club play on a ground to the southwest of the village just over the border in West Sussex. In 2018, the club reached the final of the National Village Cup competition at Lord's, but were defeated by Folkton and Flixton CC by 72 runs.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilham in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Dickering Wapentake.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Market Drayton in Shropshire also has a cottage hospital.
EbbwJunction1
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St Mary's Church, Market Drayton, is a designated Grade II* listed building. It contains some fine stained glass, including the east window, showing the Resurrection of Jesus, by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837 – 1907). Another church to feature works by him is Saint Marks, Cold Ash, Berkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wasing in Berkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newbury Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Melrose in Scottish Borders also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Assorted places in Great Britain are supposed to have, at some nearby "eminence", King Arthur and his knights in an enchanted slumber underground (their future awakening and getting into action at some time of desperate peril for the country -- or not -- seems to be "optional"). Melrose is in this category, vis-a-vis the nearby Eildon Hills; as is South Cadbury, Somerset -- between Yeovil and Wincanton -- Art. & Co. sleep under the adjacent Cadbury Castle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pensford in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.
Name-derivations again -- Wiki adjudges Pensford's name to come "in all likelihood", from the Brythonic Penffordd, meaning top of the road", or "highest or furthest point of the road" (a possible, though seen as less likely, alternative derivation from Old English is given, with a totally different meaning). The former of these, attaches also to a settlement in Flintshire -- in Welsh (descendant of Brythonic) meaning likewise "top of...", etc. : Penyffordd, a couple of miles south-east of Mold and Buckley.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edinburgh also has a Millennium Clock Tower.