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Plymouth also has a church that is dedicated to St Jude.
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D6130
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Southsea in Hampshire also has a naval war memorial.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Corfe Castle in Dorset also has a model village.
D6130
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Trowbridge in Wiltshire also has a pub called the Greyhound Inn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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North Bradley in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Biss.
Strongly associated with North Bradley, is Marmaduke Hussey (1923 -- 2006): Chairman of the BBC 1986 -- 96; subsequently made Baron Hussey of North Bradley in the County of Wiltshire. He was lampooned by the satirical magazine Private Eye, as "Marmalade Hussey". A favourite -- and long-standing -- butt of the "Eye", is Neasden (London Borough of Brent) -- seen as an archetypically "undistinguished" suburban locale.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanbadrig in Anglesey also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.
John Griffiths
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The parish of Llanbadrig includes the settlement of Cemaes, the name of which derives from the Old Welsh for bay, or inlet. Another location with the same place name origin - regrettably Francified by the Norman oppressors - is the Northumberland former pit village of Cambois, pronounced Cammus, on a spit of land overlooking a North Sea bay north of Blyth.
One of the numerous one-time odd "twiddly bits" concerning counties in Britain: Cambois was until 1844 in a small exclave of County Durham, within Northumberland. This exclave, called Bedlingtonshire (name still current in various unofficial contexts) also contained Bedlington, three miles west of Cambois.
D6130
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Boston in Lincolnshire also gives its name to a breed of terrier.
John Griffiths
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Trimley St Mary in Suffolk also has a population of 3,830.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Falkenham in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Colneis.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Flaxley in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of St Briavel's.
EbbwJunction1
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Flaxley is also famous for its old Cistercian abbey founded between 1148 and 1154 by Roger, Earl of Hereford, at the spot where his father, Miles of Gloucester, was killed whilst out hunting. The abbey and its monks were initially favoured by the Crown and it was granted land (by Henry II in 1158) as well as timber and woodlands (by Henry III in 1227). The abbey survived as a monastic entity until the Dissolution in 1536 - 1537 when its lands and manor were granted to Sir William Kingston, the Constable of the Tower of London. The present Church of St Mary, with its contrasting red and grey Forest stone, was built in 1856. It has a richly decorated interior and a very elaborate font made of Painswick (Cotswold) stone with marble columns on octagonal steps. Painswick is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute is another settlement with the remains of an Iron Age hill fort in its environs.
Born in Kilmartin, was a lady whom Wiki describes as the "famous Scottish writer", Beatrice Grant (1761 -- 1845) -- I'd never heard of her before Googling Kilmartin; but, "not my speciality". B.G. lived for a long spell in Duthil, Highland (near Carrbridge), where her husband was the minister. Per Wiki, "many of her writings are fiction, some intended for working-class readers, with the purpose of informing and improving the upbringing and behaviours of young people".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ferness in Highland also lies on the route of the B9007 road.
The name of Ferness is borrowed for the purposes of the 1983 film Local Hero: for the fictional village on Scotland's west coast -- far from the real Ferness -- where the film's action takes place. Going for help, as I frequently do, to my friend J.R.R. Tolkien -- he borrows the name of Bucklebury, West Berkshire, for that of a village in the hobbits' Shire in The Lord Of The Rings -- there, admittedly, a "true Earth -- Middle-Earth" transfer.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aughton in West Lancashire also has a pig farm.
D6130
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Appleby in Furness and Westmorland also hosts a well-known annual horse fair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wetheral in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tugby in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billesdon Poor Law Union,
Xenophon PCDGS
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Drewsteignton in Devon also lies on the line of the River Teign.
There are Neolithic and Iron Age remains close to Drewsteignton: one gathers that in relatively recent times, this circumstance gave rise to a mistaken perception that the first syllable of the settlement's name arose from the presence "way back when", of Druids in the area -- the true derivation of the "Drew" part, is reckoned to come from the name of the place's 12th-century overlord. The name of Druidston, Pembrokeshire (some six miles west of Haverfordwest) includes accurately, that of the oak-and-mistletoe chaps; but Wiki gives no information on precisely how the settlement got that name.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Amroth in Pemrokeshire also lies on the route of the designated National trail known as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.