John Griffiths
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The City of London also has a pub called 'The Cheshire Cheese'
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johnnychips
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York and Doncaster have the other two extant mansion houses.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newmarket in Suffolk also has a Grade 1 rated racecourse.
County-boundaries matters: Stamford, Lincolnshire, is also only barely within its county -- sandwiched between Rutland, Cambridgeshire, and (vestigially) Northamptonshire. Newmarket is only just in Suffolk: the furthest-west settlement of any size, in its county -- joined to the rest of Suffolk only by a narrow "neck" of the county, with Cambridgeshire to the north, west and south.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Uffington in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stamford Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Etal in Northumberland also has a thatched pub. But don't bother trying to get a drink there on a Bank Holiday because they don't open on Mondays and rules are rules.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hamptworth in Wiltshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Frustfield.
Old Colwyn, Conwy County Borough, also has a pub called the Cuckoo.
My italics, above: sounds like a Hundred populated by folk who can't, or may not, do what they wish to do
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Penmaenmawr in Conway County Borough also has an area in its environs known as "Fairy Glen".
William Ewart Gladstone (1809 -- 98), prominent Liberal politician who served several terms as Prime Minister: was an enthusiast for Penmaenmawr, where he and family spent a number of summer holidays. He also has strong associations with Hawarden, Flintshire -- now part of the Queensferry / Buckley Deeside Conurbation; in his retirement, he dwelt at Hawarden Castle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Higher Kinnerton in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hawarden Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dodleston in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.
Dodleston has a (posthumous) association with the mountaineer George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (1886 -- 1924); who took part in the early 1920s, in several expeditions attempting the ascent of Mount Everest -- died in not-fully-known circumstances, in the last of those in which he participated. Leigh-Mallory's father was Rector of Dodleston during the period 1927 -- 40. For a number of years, George Herbert L-M held a teaching post at Charterhouse public school, Godalming, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Guildford in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.
D6130
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Helmsley in North Yorkshire also has a ruined castle in the Town centre.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lastingham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.
Lastingham had a monastery, once of some prominence; but this establishment "faded out" some time before 1000 AD. Trumbert, a monk of Lastingham, became scriptural tutor to, in his youth, the Venerable Bede -- probably the most renowned monastic scholar of those times. Bede is chiefly associated with the monastery of Jarrow, Tyne and Wear.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lindisfarne in Northumberland also had its religious Christian houses sacked by Viking raiders in the 8th century AD.
Lindisfarne has long been well-known for the production of mead; including in monastic times. St. Aidan's Winery on the island now produces Lindisfarne Mead -- sold widely throughout the country. Another British mead-making undertaking is Wye Valley Meadery: based at Caldicot, Monmouthshire. (Caldicot isn't on the Wye; but never mind...)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rogiet in Monmouthshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Caldicot.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Northenden in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.
In popular lore, the Northenden area is one with something of a "split personality"; comprising, and administratively linked together, rather snooty middle-class Northenden; and adjoining Wythenshawe, seen in comparison as a low-class "bad neighbourhood". Duffield, Derbyshire -- a few miles north of Derby -- has a similar reputation; with a "posh", and a "prole-type" part: said to be distinguished by pronunciation -- genteel "Deff-field", and lowly "Dooffield", respectively.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Baslow in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
A section of Baslow -- the oldest part of the settlement -- is named Bridge End. There is also a village of Bridge End aka Bridgend, in Co. Donegal: just on the Republic side of the Irish border, and a few miles north of [London]derry. (And -- peripherally, here -- of some moment re times past, for lovers of the Irish 3ft. gauge)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Letterkenny in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Swilly.
Going to be really convoluted here. I understand that there was? -- is? a popular TV drama -- "soap"? -- series in Canada, called Letterkenny: about doings in a fictional Canadian small town of that name (no doubt fictionally named after the real Irish Letterkenny). There was in the recent past, this side of the ocean: a not dissimilar television series (much-watched in GB as well as Ireland) called Ballykissangel, about a fictional Republic-of-Ireland small town. One learns that the name was derived by the show's creator, from a place personally known to him: the townland of Ballykissane -- near Killorglin, Co. Kerry.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Caherdaniel in County Kerry also lies on the route of the tourism long-distance trail known as The Wild Atlantic Way.