Xenophon PCDGS
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Ickleton in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Whittlesford.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Chidlow in Cheshire West & Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Whitchurch Poor Law Union.
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Southwell in Nottinghamshire also has a noted minster church.
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Trefriw in Conwy County Borough also has a working woollen mill.
Near Trefriw, on the River Crafnant -- tributary of the Conwy -- which flows through the village; there is a series of waterfalls: renownedly picturesque stretch traversed via same, has been known as Fairy Glen. In an area not geographically, the proverbial "million miles away" -- but less obviously scenically attractive -- viz. that of Appley Bridge, West Lancashire (a little way north-west of Wigan): there is a -- relative -- beauty spot also called Fairy Glen.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Parbold in West Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Douglas.
One learns that "an annual fell race is run over Parbold Hill". Without wishing to ridicule the no doubt worthy community of Parbold -- and recognising that the aforementioned, is likely humorous self-parody -- it's difficult not to feel that this athletic event pales into insignificance, compared with "real" fell races in "real" hill country; such as the annual thirteen-mile Lowther Lakeland Fell and Trail Race, based at Lowther, Cumbria -- three miles south of Penrith.
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Hackthorpe in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gilbert Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I am a tad confused. The last three settlements appear to be:-
Lowther
Hackthorpe
Lowther
Lowther
Hackthorpe
Lowther
I am an idiot ! My only -- feeble -- excuse is that my post #35,169 was made last night: night's sleep intervened -- this morning, I homed in on your #35,170 and Hackthorpe (had turned in, before you made that one); I'd quite forgotten this AM, that I had immediately previously, used Lowther. Found Hackthorpe a bit of a brute to do anything with: all I could think of, was its close proximity to Lowther: which of course "won't fly". I've struck out my #35,171 re Lowther; and donned thinking-cap in quest of some other Hackthorpe association !
A bit of a "stretch", found necessary; but, my favourite county to the rescue ! Hackthorn, Lincolnshire (six miles north of Lincoln), sounds like Hackthorpe except for the last consonant
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Snarford in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.
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Ducklington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ubbeston in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.
Ubbeston's former St. Peter's Church is now de-commissioned -- if that's the right word -- and has been turned into a private dwelling. Lurgan, Co. Armagh, also has a church -- still functioning in its intended role ! -- dedicated to St. Peter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Midhurst in West Sussex also has a wide main road.
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Midhurst is the home (at a stretch of three miles or so, but it is named after the place) of a broadcasting transmitter tower for radio and television signals. A similar settlement known as a centre of broadcasting, but with loads more masts, was and is Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Daventry gets an incidental mention in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, Act IV, Scene 2. Sir John Falstaff has in that scene, a long comic monologue: mentioning a couple of settlements in "mid-England", in the course of basically chuntering on about his scruffy, unmotivated and ill-equipped troop of soldiery; who have effectively, just one complete shirt between the lot of them. The shirt in question "to say the truth, was stolen from my host at St. Albans [Hertfordshire] or the red-nosed innkeeper of Daventry".
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire was also the scene of a battle during the Wars of the Roses.
Staying with Shakespeare and Falstaff and indeed the same play -- as per my last post -- at one point Falstaff remarks to one character, concerning another character: "His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard". Back in those times, Tewkesbury was big on the mustard scene (still is, to some extent) -- its "product", a blend of mustard flour and grated horseradish root. Another settlement of mustard-related renown, later on in history, was the city of Durham: largely due to the early-eighteenth-century enterprise of Mrs. Clements of that city; who invented a new method of extracting full flavour from mustard seed. Mrs. C. toured the country popularising her new mustard "mode" -- including getting King George I "on side" -- and under her aegis, mustard production became a substantial local industry in Durham.
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Christchurch in Dorset also hosts an annual regatta.
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Musselburgh in East Lothian also has a racecourse.
The London Borough of Hillingdon is also twinned with a settlement in the French region of Ile-de-France (Paris and its very-much-greater environs). Musselburgh's "twin" is Champigny-sur-Marne (a little way east of central Paris); Hillingdon's is Mantes-la-Jolie (a much longer way west-north-west thereof).