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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadwoodwidger in Devon was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lifton.

 

[Calthrop]

Broadwoodwidger in Devon was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lifton.

Wonderful name -- I learn that it's derived from "broad wood of the Wyger family" [the local magnates].

Wallasey (Wirral, Merseyside) also has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas.

 

[John Griffiths]

Jarrow (Tyne & Wear) also lies at one end of a road tunnel under a major river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitburn in Tyne & Wear was also once under the jurisdiction of the South Shields Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

In the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588: two of the fleet's ships, trying to get home by going north and round the northern extremity of Great Britain, ran aground on Whitburn Rocks. Another member of that fleet which came to grief while aiming for the same objective: was the galleass La Girona, which was wrecked -- involving the death of almost all on board -- at Lacada Point near Ballintoy, Co. Antrim (five miles west of Ballycastle).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballycastle in County Antrim also lies on the route of the B15 coast road.

 

[D6130]

St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, also holds an annual "Lammas Fair" in August.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasgow also has a university that was established in the 15th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Folk- or folk-ish songs to the rescue -- the one with words "put into the mouth" of a guy released at end of his sentence in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow -- one kind-of-surmises, not for his having done anything mega-horrible --

I'll pack my bags and I'll go / Far away from the town of Glasgow / I'm heading for London, or maybe for Swindon -- It's after the livin' I'll go. (Why Swindon, heaven only knows -- unless the chap was a railway enthusiast, with a soft spot for England's GWR )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Draycot Foliat in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Highworth and Swindon Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Good enough for me -- Wiki says, "it is possible that Draycot Foliat lent its name to the town of Dracut, incorporated in Massachusetts (now a State of the USA) in 1701". There is also in Massachusetts, a namesake settlement of Braintree, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coggeshall in Essex also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Coggeshall turns out to be yet another of those settlements which according to folklore, are populated exclusively by foolish people who do foolish things. Recounting is given, of the occasion when Coggeshall's town clock chimed eleven times at noon. When the townsfolk heard that the town clock at Lexden (not far away -- also in Essex, just west of Colchester) had chimed twelve times at eleven o'clock, they rode to Lexden to collect the missing stroke. (Other Coggeshallian acts of folly, told of: are, the people's knocking down one of two windmills, reckoning that there would not be enough wind for both; and doings also attributed to other supposed "fools' settlements" -- the "moonraking" thing, and the farm-animal-with-head-stuck-between-bars-of-gate business -- solved by cutting its head off.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loveston in Pembrokshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

[Calthrop]

Finding this a tough one, to the point of perhaps getting "cheaty" -- a settlement in a part of England not the proverbial million miles away; and with a rather similar, and imaginably similarly-themed, name; is Lovington, Somerset: not quite ten miles south of Shepton Mallet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Queen Camel in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Catsash.

 

[Calthrop]

Queen Camel's name is nothing to do with bad-tempered humped quadrupeds: it's derived from the little river on which the settlement is located -- the Cam, eight miles long; tributary of one of the umpteen rivers in this part of the world bearing the name Yeo. Another fairly small-time River Cam, also not to be confused with the greater river of that name in eastern England which flows though a famed seat of learning: is that -- twelve miles long -- which rises on a Cotswold escarpment and flows into the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal; passing en route through several settlements, including Cambridge, Gloucestershire -- don't confuse with (and it's pronounced differently) the aforementioned seat of learning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uley in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Berkeley.

 

[D6130]

Goose Eye, near Keighley in West Yorkshire, was also once home to a micro-brewery.

 

[DerekC]

Goose Eye has a pub called the Turkey Inn. I had hoped to find a similar avian combination of names elsewhere, but I had to make do with Ducklington, Oxfordshire, which is home to the Bell Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Standlake in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[Calthrop]

Crimond, Aberdeenshire -- between Fraserburgh and Peterhead -- also has a stock-car-racing circuit.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rockingham in Northamptonshire also lends its name to a hymn tune ... ("When I survey the wonderous cross")

(Crimond lends its name to a far better-known hymn tune..."The Lord's my Shepherd").

 

[Calthrop]

Rockingham in Northamptonshire also lends its name to a hymn tune ... ("When I survey the wonderous cross")

Llechrydau, Powys, is also only just within its "designated county", and close to a point where three counties-or-equivalent, meet. Rockingham's "other two" are Leicestershire and Rutland; Llechrydau's are Wrexham County Borough and Shropshire.

(Crimond lends its name to a far better-known hymn tune..."The Lord's my Shepherd").

I'd consider the two tunes equally well-known and -loved; maybe it depends what hymns one did or didn't grow up with?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi.

 

[Calthrop]

Wettenhall -- Cheshire East, near Winsford -- also has a church dedicated to St. David.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alpraham in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Nantwich Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Edlesborough (in Buckinghamshire -- just; near Dunstable, Bedfordshire) also has a pub called The Traveller's Rest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dersingham in Norfolk also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as Icknield Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Dersingham Bog Nature Reserve -- near the above-bolded -- features a variety of habitats, and is a haven for a number of interesting species: including, in the summer months when they sojourn in Britain, the European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus). Greenham Common near Newbury, Berkshire is -- as well as its prominence in the news in the relatively recent past, for reasons which we know -- another good place for nightjars.