D6130
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Dewsbury is the second largest town in Kirklees Metropolitan Borough. The largest is Huddersfield.
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DerekC
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Huddersfield boasts a statue of a former Prime Minister - Harold Wilson. I am sure Grantham is equally proud of its statue of Margaret Thatcher.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Osgodby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Grantham Poor Law Union.
DerekC
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Scarborough's two park and ride sites are at Osgodby and on the road to Seamer, North Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hutton Buscel in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Pickering Lythe Wapentake.
D6130
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The sister and brother-in-law of our next door neighbour in Skipton used to live in Hutton Buscel....but now they have moved to Wigginton, just outside York. 
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Bulmer Wapentake.
(My italics) -- when the above was convened, was it "cider all round"?
The decidedly short River Kyle (length, some six miles) joins the Ouse at the north end of Newton-on-Ouse. A handful of miles further north, the Kyle runs close by Alne, North Yorkshire (note in parenthesis -- a place of interest to students of small independent standard-gauge railways).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aberaeron in Cardiganshire also has a tennis club.
From one sport to another: Aberaeron had a golf club between 1923 and the World War II years -- when, as Wiki recounts, "the course was turned over to agriculture to aid the war effort. Post-war attempts to reinstate the club failed." Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, also had a golf club (this one inaugurated in 1905) which perished in the early 1940s: not, one would reckon -- with the settlement being in the Republic of Ireland -- involving the identical circumstances / reasons.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Doolin in County Clare also lies on the line of the Aille River.
D6130
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Ballybunion in Co. Kerry also hosts an annual 'bachelor festival ' when young - and not so young - men (mainly farmers, I believe) descend on the town for the weekend to try and meet up with the hordes of single ladies who also arrive for the weekend. Dances, concerts and other social events are arranged and a good time is had by all apparently!
D6130
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Just beaten to the line by @Xenophon PCDGS ....but for the sake of general amusement, I shall leave the above post up and continue from Doolin with:
Crolly in Co. Donegal is also a major centre for the performance of Irish traditional music.
And of course, up to exactly a hundred years ago and previously to that, the "lonely hearts" could have got to the town by monorail.
There is reckoned as a notable feature of Crolly: just outside the village, the Crolly Stone; which is reputedly the largest boulder in Ireland. (This feature is named in Irish, Cloch Mhor Leim An t Sionnaigh = Large Rock of the Foxes' Leap -- so there !). A notably large and impressive English boulder is the Bowder Stone: nearest settlement Grange in Borrowdale, Cumbria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Papcastle in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
It is suggested that Papcastle's name has a mixed Old Norse / Old English derivation: pap + caester = "the Roman fort inhabited by a hermit". Another hermit-themed settlement name is that of Hermitage, Dorset (six miles south of Sherborne) -- so titled, from Augustinian monks' having had a hermitage there, up to the 14th or 15th century.
DerekC
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The monks of Hermitage used the "Lady's Well" near the village. There is a well of the same name in the village of Holystone, Northumberland, also used by Augustinians but in this case canonesses, making the name even more appropriate.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eccles in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
D6130
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Elterwater in Cumberland also has a pub named the Britannia.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria is also a settlement where slate quarrying is still carried out in its environs.
I'd had no idea before reading this post, that there could be such a personage as a canoness ! Endlessly educational, this game ...
Portsmouth, Hampshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Cuthbert -- a little unusual, one feels, for this part of the country; he's more associated with the North of England, is he not?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Liverpool also has both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.
As mentioned in the folk song "In my Liverpool Home"....
"We speak with an accent exceedingly rare,
Meet under a statue exceedingly bare
If you want a cathedral we've got one to spare,
In my Liverpool home"
As mentioned in the folk song "In my Liverpool Home"....
"We speak with an accent exceedingly rare,
Meet under a statue exceedingly bare
If you want a cathedral we've got one to spare,
In my Liverpool home"
DerekC
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For a reasonably topical link - Alan Bates, the leading campaigner for justice for sub-postmasters in the "Horizon" scandal, was born in Liverpool. However he was from 1998 until 2003, when his appointment was terminated without explanation, sub-postmaster at Craig-y-Don, Llandudno, Conwy.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llay in Wrexham County Borough also has historical links to ball-clay mining.
EbbwJunction1
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The 1985 World Snooker Champion and current BBC snooker commentator Dennis Taylor lives in the village. He was born on 19th January 1949 in Coalisland, Northern Ireland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lincoln also has a performing arts venue.
Those "into" such matters, reckon that Lincoln's name originated in the language of the Iron-Age Brythonic people: Lindon = "The Pool": settlement founded on a broadening of the River Witham. Over time, the name mutated -- via some input from the Romans when they were hereabouts -- into modern Lincoln. Generally "pool"-related place-names are quite numerous in our islands. Trying to avoid perhaps "overworked" instances of such (a couple of places on England's Irish Sea coast come to mind) -- there's Welshpool, Powys. (Welsh name, Y Trallwng = "the marshy or sinking land".) English name was, we learn, just "Pool" -- association maybe, with the Montgomeryshire Canal on which the town lies? -- until 1835, when it was officially changed to Welshpool, to avoid confusion with Poole in Dorset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Pool.
Guilsfield's church is dedicated to St. Aelhaearn -- a new one on me: we learn that he was a disciple of St. Beuno -- these chaps having lived and done their stuff in the 7th century. The A-saint is commemorated in the name of the village of Llanaelhaearn (Gwynedd -- in the Lleyn Peninsula): whose patron saint and supposed founder he is.