Derrynane House near Caherdaniel was at one stage, home to Daniel (name-wise, association or coincidence?) O'Connell, "The Liberator", 1775 -- 1847: lawyer, politician, and renowned campaigner for a better deal for Catholic Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom. In his legal capacity, O'Connell participated in a celebrated trial in 1829, involving Doneraile, Co. Cork -- seven-or-so miles north of Mallow: O'Connell was able therein, to save several local anti-British-rule so-called "conspirators", from the ultimate penalty.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Castletownroche in County Cork also lies on the line of the River Awbeg.
Castletownroche was the destination in 1942, of a German agent named Oskar Metzle -- seeking possibilities for the advancement for his country: in the Irish Free State, neutral in World War II. Detained by the police there, as a potentially suspicious person -- as was proper: Metzle managed to commit suicide; and was buried locally. A German WW2 visitor to the British Isles, of greater renown, was Rudolf Hess: taken in charge after his flying to Scotland, seeking possible negotiations between Germany and the UK -- in 1941. He was subsequently assigned a sojourn, for much of the rest of the war, at the Maindiff Court Hospital, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Machynlleth in Powys also has a clock tower.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coventry also has an elephant in its coat of arms.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Endellion in Cornwall also has a Collegiate Church.
St. Endellion is the Type Locality for the mineral bournonite; also known as endellione or endellionite. Similar "place-name-dropping" re chemistry, mineraology, etc. : features in connection with Strontian, Highland -- near where, were discovered the chemical element strontium; and the mineral strontianite, which contains it.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ardery in Highland is another settlement on the shores of Loch Sunart.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portumna in County Galway also lies on the line of the River Shannon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glenfarne in County Leitrim also lies on the route of the N16 national primary road.
John Griffiths
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Glenfarne is the location of the Ballroom of Romance, an establishment which inspired the eponymous short story by William Trevor. A film based on the story was made, not in Glenfarne, but in Ballycroy, County Mayo
Xenophon PCDGS
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Youghal in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to The Holy Family.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Olney in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
A favourite of mine -- John Newton (1725 -- 1807), repentant former slave-ship captain, and author of the hymn Amazing Grace -- was curate of Olney for sixteen years. He lived for a while in childhood, in Aveley, Essex (near Grays and Thurrock).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bulphan in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Orsett Por Law Union.
Sounds like an enthusiast for Spain's often-deplored "Fiesta Brava"
Finedon, Northamptonshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Twywell in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Huxloe.
Clerical gentlemen strongly opposed to slavery, would seem to be the flavour of the day ! Rector of Twywell from 1874 to '95, was Horace Waller (1833 -- 96) -- clergyman, missionary, and zealous campaigner against slavery, essentially in Africa in the later 19th century. Waller is buried at the church of Milland, West Sussex -- five miles north-west of Midhurst.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackmoor in Hampshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as the Chichester to Silchester Way.
DerekC
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St Matthew's Church in Blackmoor was designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse. He was particularly interested in the building of materials in brick and also designed the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London. He also tried out cast iron in a market building in Darlington. On the opening day the floor gave way, pitching two prize bulls and a spectator into the basement. However the problem was traced to a faulty casting and Waterhouse was exonerated of any blame.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Camborne in Cornwall also has a School of Mining.
Songs associated in one way or another, with earnest folks' war against the demon drink: feature Camborne; and Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. Camborne's song marries-up pro-temperance sentiments, with the town's then-recently being reached by the rail system: Happy Camborne, Happy Camborne / Where the railway is so near / And the engine shows how water / Can accomplish more than beer. Something of a different story re Kirkintilloch; where strong pro-temperance principles on the part of local government, led to a local ordinance whereby, between 1923 and 1967: the sale of alcohol on public premises was banned. This inspired a local comic song, In Kirkintilloch there's nae pubs... the lyrics go on to give a humorous, deliberately inaccurate explanation of this phenomenon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire also lies on the line of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
John Griffiths
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Hull includes a suburban district called Garden Village, built in the 1920s for the workers of Reckitt & Sons, manufacturers of laundry blue (do people still use that?) and other useful products. Another area called Garden Village was built in the 1920s in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne, for workers at the nearby LNER depot (I hope this isn't invalidated as being a railway connection).