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Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk is another settlement in which the remains of a Roman temple was discovered.
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It is suggested that Boudica -- leader / heroine of the British revolt, 60 -- 61 AD, against Roman rule -- may have at some time resided in what later became Caistor St. Edmund. An event in the revolt was the destruction of the Roman settlement of Camulodunum: modern Colchester, Essex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lexden in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Colchester Poor Law Union.
I suspect that I go on ad taedium about my downright allergy to the works of Jane Austen; and vis-a-vis same, I have tried. Suffice it to say, that said lady would appear -- in the course of her not very long life -- to have featured in one way or another, re a huge number of places in the more southerly part of England. One such is Lexden: an acquaintance of hers having been the Rev. John Rawstorn Papillon, then Lord of the Manor of that settlement. J.A. also spent some time in Worthing, West Sussex.
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Sevenoaks in Kent was also affected by the Great Storm of 1987.
EbbwJunction1
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St Johns Hill United Reform Church, Sevenoaks is a part of the Southern Synod of the URC, as is St Andrew's United Reform Church, Balham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pulborough in West Sussex also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tottenhoe in Bedfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Luton Poor Law Union.
The above-bolded settlement has a pub called the Old Farm Inn. Near the centre of Bournville, West Midlands -- model village founded by the Cadbury chocolate-making family close to their factory -- is the Old Farm Hotel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Port Sunlight is also a village that was built by a philanthropic employer in which to house his employees in good quality housing.
One learns that Port Sunlight saw much use as a filming location for the recent-ish TV crime drama series Peaky Blinders. I basically "don't do television" -- up to now, knew only that this stuff was about a criminal youth gang in Birmingham roughly a century ago. Following up from the Port Sunlight reference: the series concerned strikes me as possibly, rather splendidly and entertainingly mad. I discover that series' first "phase" culminates in skulduggery, involving the central anti-heroes, at Worcester races in 1919.
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Maidstone in Kent was also the scene of a battle in the English Civil War.
DerekC
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Maidstone has an iguanodon in its coat of arms to commemorate the finding there of a skeleton of this dinosaur in 1835. The first to be discovered in the world, however, was a set of bones found in 1822 in a quarry near Cuckfield, West Sussex.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Twineham in Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Buttinghill.
There lies a couple of miles west of Twineham, the nicely "near-sound-alike" village of Wineham. There is a considerable way westward in England (near Crewkerne), a similar instance of neighbouring-settlements-resembling-euphony (a favourite of mine, which I've used before in the game) -- involving Mosterton in Dorset, two miles south of Misterton: which is just across the county boundary, in Somerset.
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Loveston in Pembrokeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.
Loveston lies just off the short B4586 road: whose southern end is a couple of miles to the south, at Broadmoor where it joins the A477. A better-known (for not very happy reasons) Broadmoor, is the high-security psychiatric hospital bearing that name; which is near Crowthorne in Berkshire.
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Worthing in West Sussex also has a symphony orchestra.
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Ovenden in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Malachy.
As I've intimated previously -- gee whiz, Mister Xenophon PCDGS, you sure set some brain-boggling posers for us rubes... trying to rise to the occasion, however obscurely and obliquely -- the settlement Ovenden shares its name with the astronomer Michael William Ovenden (1926 - 87); who for much of his life, lectured in astronomy at the University of Glasgow.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Southport in Merseyside also has a botanic garden.
With regards to the mention made of Ovenden in the earlier posting, those well versed in the nuances inherent in the Closed Stations Journey quiz would have been aware of the Halfax and Ovenden Junction Railway.
With regards to the mention made of Ovenden in the earlier posting, those well versed in the nuances inherent in the Closed Stations Journey quiz would have been aware of the Halfax and Ovenden Junction Railway.
DerekC
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Southport is the proud possessor of the second longest pier in the UK. Everyone knows that Southend on Sea has the longest, but the fact that Walton on the Naze has the third longest pier might be useful for a pub quiz!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Happisburgh in Norfolk is also a settlement that has a history of coastal erosion.
Many songs in the repertoire of the folk-singer and Thames barge skipper Bob Roberts, feature names of settlements essentially in the purlieus of East Anglia's coastline. Windy Old Weather commences, "As we were a-fishing off Happisburgh Light" [using the local pronunciation, approximately "Hazeburgh"]; Collier Brig (about a ramshackle ship perpetually in trouble of one kind or another) mentions the headland Orford Ness, a little way east of Orford, Suffolk.
A joint property, I learn: of the Lancashire & Yorkshire, and Great Northern, Railways -- which strikes me as a bit of a counter-intuitive combination.
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In the Yorkshire area, you will find a goodly number of joint railways.
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Wilmslow in Cheshire East also has a Grade I listed parish church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.