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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newham Ogle in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Castle Ward Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Newham Ogle in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Castle Ward Poor Law Union.

Newham Ogle would seem to be part of the village / parish of Whalton, five miles south-west of Morpeth. Whalton holds an annual "Bale Fire" celebration on July 4th: which was the date on which Midsummer's Eve was celebrated before Britain's switching to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. (These doings involve Morris dancing, dancing by the children of the village school, and a barbecue at the pub.) If one were to have a yen for something special on July 4th elsewhere in Britain; one could perhaps visit on that date, the American Museum and Gardens at Claverton, Somerset (just east of Bath). The Museum -- in a Grade 1 listed nineteenth-century country house -- is devoted to American decorative arts; and is set in spacious and attractive gardens, which are given an American botanical "flavour". It would seem probable that this attraction does something on July 4th, to mark Independence Day.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestwich in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

The cartoonist and illustrator Dudley D. Watkins (1907 -- 69) was born in Prestwich; although the family left the area very early in his life. His best-known role was as illustrator of cartoon strips in kids' comics, on which he worked for the majority of his life, based in Dundee (great centre for that art-form). Watkins drew for -- among assorted less-known strips -- Desperate Dan, Oor Wullie, and Lord Snooty. He lived for the latter part of his life in Broughty Ferry, Dundee City.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitby in North Yorkshire was also the scene of a lifeboat disaster with all hands lost.

 

[Calthrop]

Whitby lies at the mouth of the Yorkshire River Esk. Another river of that name -- this one in Scotland -- reaches the sea at Fisherrow, East Lothian: close by, and nowadays physically pretty much "one with", Musselburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Temple in Midlothian also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

[D6130]

According to Wikipedia, Temple gets its name from the ruined church in the village, which was built by and for the Knights Templar. A much larger, more impressive and more famous Templar chapel - made world famous by the Dan Brown novel and film 'The Da Vinci Code' - is situated a few miles to the West at Roslin (sometimes spelt Rosslyn).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scone in Perth & Kinross was also the scene of a battle that was fought during the First War of Scottish Independance.

 

[D6130]

Scone Palace is the Scottish residence of the Earl of Mansfield .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pinxton in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Northwich, Cheshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Helen.

(A thing I've remarked on before: it does seem occasionally, re Wiki articles about particular settlements -- that someone has "sneaked past the censors" with stuff which has to be surreal / mad / made-up. Their article on Pinxton, is a case in point; worth a look at for -- or so it seemed to me -- sheer barminess.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Congleton in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Dane.

 

[johnnychips]

The people of Congleton allegedly used money raised to buy bibles to buy a bear for baiting instead. Another settlement with a dubious animal related tale is Hartlepool, of monkey-hanging fame.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tottington in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilda.

 

[DerekC]

On Christmas Eve 1944, during World War II, a concerted attack on Manchester was launched by the Luftwaffe using V1 flying bombs launched from Heinkel 111 bombers flying over the North Sea. 31 hits were recorded. One was in Tottington, where it very sadly killed six people. Others fell over a wide area from Spennymoor, County Durham in the north to Woodford, Northamptonshire in the south.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kislingbury in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

[Calthrop]

Kislingbury in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

I was hoping that somebody else might follow on from this one; so as to spare participants from the on-screen equivalent of my bending their ears with another of my obsession-tendencies; but it's seeming, "no such luck" .

I have a "thing" about pubs with English Civil War / War of Three Kingdoms-related names: somewhat favouring the Parliamentarian side in that conflict, I at times get sick of the innumerable Royal Oaks, King's Heads, etc.; and wish for a few more hostelries commemorating the other side -- few of whom, I believe were teetotallers; though they frowned on excess in that department. At all events: Kislingbury has a pub called the Cromwell Cottage (it appears that Oliver spent the night in Kislingbury, although long before the "Cottage" came to be, on his way to the battle of Naseby). There is in Birmingham a pub called the Cavalier, in Fairfax Road. One might see this as being about attempted reconciliation, or at least impartiality: with Thomas Fairfax having been the head of the Parliamentarian New Model Army in the Civil War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunhampstead in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

In perceived absence of other possibilities: Dunhampstead had a pub -- now closed -- called the Fir Tree. There is near Crook, County Durham, a Fir Tree Country Hotel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Austwick in North Yorkshire also has a noted glacial erratic within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn -- local folktale "of an Austwick man who fell into a deep pool. As bubbling broke from the water's surface, his companions thought that they could hear the words 'T' b-best's at t'b-bottom', so they jumped into the pool as well, and were not seen again". The following has shown up before, on this game -- Gotham, Nottinghamshire, has folklore fame as a place whose inhabitants are not the proverbial sharpest knives in the drawer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrumpton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Susworth, Lincolnshire -- six miles south-west of Scunthorpe -- also lies on the River Trent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kexby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Kexby, "not a million miles away" in North Yorkshire -- half-way between York and Pocklington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fulford in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as The White Rose Way.

 

[Calthrop]

The invaluable Wiki once again: which tells us that "A 6.4 miles long scale model of the Solar System starts across the Ouse, west of Fulford, and runs via Naburn to Riccall along a disused railway line from York to Selby, now ... part of the White Rose cycle route." (This feels a bit like one of those "wind-ups" recently mentioned, perpetrated vis-a-vis Wiki by pranksters; but who knows?) On a smaller scale: an clockwork model of the Solar System -- or of just the sun, earth, and moon -- is called an "orrery". The name comes from the first modern example of such, produced about 1712 by John Rowley, for the 4th Earl of Orrery. Geographically, Orrery is a large area of northern Co. Cork -- including among many other settlements, the town of Buttevant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newmains in North Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Brigid.

 

[Calthrop]

Newmains had long ago, a football club called Newmains Thistle (their present-day successor: Newmains Hammers). A better-known football club in this part of the world, with the "Thistle" suffix: is Partick Thistle -- originally indeed based in the Partick area of Glasgow; relocated, however, to the Maryhill area of the city in 1908 or '09 -- but has kept the original name.