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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montford Bridge in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Servern.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The bridge at Montford Bridge was Thomas Telford's first bridge design. It was built of red sandstone by John Carline and John Tilley between 1790 and 1792, and has three masonry elliptical arch spans, two of 55 ft, and the central one of 58 ft.

John Carline the Second was the son of John Carline the First. He was trained as a stonemason by his father, but showed greater skill in terms of sculpture. He moved with his father to Shrewsbury in 1765. Around 1788 he appears to have set up on his own, specialising in churches and church memorials. He continued to work with John Tilley after his father died until Tilley himself died in 1795. An early work was the tomb of Hester Bright in the village of Lydbury North in Shropshire, which was built in 1791.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sibdon Carwood in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Purslow.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Long Lane, Sibdon Carwood is part of the Six Castles Cycleway (also known as National Cycle Network Route 44), which also run s through Priestweston (or Priest Weston), a small village in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, Shropshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Kentchurch, Herefordshire (about midway as the crow flies, between Hereford and Abergavenny) is also very close to the Welsh border -- in England "just by a whisker".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moccas in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Webtree.

 

[Calthrop]

I can't resist "animal stuff" -- derivation of names of Moccas; and Swinhope, Lincolnshire (ten miles south-west of Grimsby) reckoned in both cases, to be on a porcine theme. The former is thought probably derived from the Welsh moch-rhos = pig-inhabited [moor-] land; the latter, from Old English wording meaning "swine valley".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanellen in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Calthrop]

Llangynidr, Powys, also lies on the route of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwmdu in Brecknockshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Crickhowell.

 

[Calthrop]

Woolfardisworthy, Devon (near Clovelly) also has a pub called the Farmers Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitchurch in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Hallows.

 

[Calthrop]

The flamboyant actor (and "man of parts", in other areas of life) James Robertson Justice (1907 - 75): lived for a while in the Hampshire Whitchurch. His ashes are buried near Spinningdale, Highland -- between Bonar Bridge and Dornoch -- where he dwelt in the latter part of his life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dornoch in Highland also lies on the route of the A949 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Dornoch was the scene of the last legal execution in Scotland (and indeed in the British Isles) of a person convicted for practising witchcraft: viz. the burning alive there of Janet Horne in 1727. Ireland's counterpart -- last trial for witchcraft, with punishment ensuing -- was a little earlier, in 1711. Involved eight women from the Islandmagee area in Co. Antrim -- between Whitehead and Larne: the court sat in nearby Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. A complicated affair, with various ramifications stretching beyond putative witchcraft: the women underwent imprisonment and time in the stocks, but the husband of one of them was executed (plain murder apparently entering the picture).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thistleton in Rutland also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[DerekC]

At Thistleton Gap is a tri-point where the counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland meet. The nearest tri-point to my home is close to Hammer Bottom, Hampshire, where Hampshire meets Surrey and West Sussex.

 

[D6130]

Wombwell in South Yorkshire also has a pub named the Prince of Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worsbrough Bridge in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Dove.

 

[John Griffiths]

Football manager Mick McCarthy was born in Worsbrough Bridge. The apex of his career was probably his period in charge of the Republic of Ireland team (for whom he had played in his younger years); after Ireland, he became manager of Sunderland .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hutton in Scottish Borders also has a church that was built to the design of the architect Ignatius Bonomi.

 

[DerekC]

Hutton was once the home of the famous bear Wotjek, who was enlisted in the Polish Army as a private soldier, subsequently promoted to corporal. He came originally from Iran, being acquired by the Anders Army, a Polish unit which had been created in the Soviet Union in 1942, in transit to Egypt and subsequently Italy where the bear carried ammunition during the Battle of Monte Cassino. At the end of WWII Wotjek was moved to Hutton with his unit and on demobilsation rehoused in Edinburgh Zoo, where he spent the rest of his life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penyffordd in Flintshire also has a Millenium clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Re the Church of England / its Welsh counterpart: Penyffordd has a church of that persuasion, called Emmanuel Church; as does Billericay, Essex.

My late father dwelt in his youth, with his family, at Penyffordd (though the family were solid English -- seemingly things were harmonious enough between them and their Welsh neighbours).

 

[Bradford PA]

Billericay Dickie was a hit song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. The original name for this band was Kilburn and the High Roads.

 

[D6130]

Handsworth in Birmingham also has a higher than average population of Irish descent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warley Wigorn in a detached part of Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the very large land area covered by the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

At the time of the Doomesday Book (1086), Warley Wighorn was owned by Roger de Montgomerie, the Earl of Shrewsbury. He also had another estate at Halesowen in Worcestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

In Halesowen is Leasowes Park, considered one of the first natural landscape gardens to have been created in England. It was designed by the poet William Shenstone (1714 -- 63), who essentially spent his life in the area. He attended the -- still relatively prestigious -- Solihull School in Solihull, West Midlands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Whitacre in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Hemlingford.