Sompting is one of a fair number of settlements in England which are -- according to local wags -- places where treacle is mined. (Sompting's treacle-mine workforce is allegedly made up of incredibly lazy people.) Another place of which the treacle-mines tale is told: is Sabden, Lancashire -- just north-west of Padiham.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Wickford in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.
johnnychips
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Wickford is apparently the home of British naturism. Brighton had a well-known nudist beach.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Malvern in Worcestrershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Preston Candover in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bermondspit.
Preston Candover was for long, home to Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (1927 -- 2022) the -- as it were -- heir to the Sainsburys supermarket empire. The gentleman concerned was in his youth, head boy of Sandroyd School: near Tollard Royal, Wiltshire (some five miles south-east of Shaftesbury).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Warrington also has a rowing club.
The Manchester Japanese School -- a weekend Japanese educational venture -- is held at a language centre within Warrington's municipal area. One of the UK's rather few settlements twinned with one in Japan: is Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire; twinned with Yoichi.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Prestonpans in East Lothian was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 16th century.
Folk-ballad-reference in perverse memory: it definitely had meaning; but that, after very many years, eludes me -- there remains, maybe, the chorus: Syne hae I intil Edinburgh; Syne hae I intil Leith, mon; Syne hae I intil Prestonpans; Syne hae I intil Dalkeith, mon. And this is the best I can do for Dalkeith, East Lothian.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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The posting that I made on here, was made meaningless, by the total removal of the previous posting., so in order not to have the thread disrupted, I have had to remove my posting.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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This posting above is where matters should continue, so I will respond with......
Fisherrow in East Lothian also lies on the line of the River Eask.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kingston-upon-Hull also has a maritime museum.
Andrew Marvell (1621 -- 78), poet and politician, has a considerable degree of association with Kingston-upon-Hull -- for which constituency he was MP for several terms, both under the Commonwealth and after the Restoration. He was in fact born not far from Hull: in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire (a few miles south-west of Withernsea).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bobbingworth in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Germain.
A tiny bit frantic, being got: my personal preference in this game (admittedly, sometimes making life difficult for myself) being to try whenever possible, to come upon some new association for whatever place -- that well re Bobbingworth, never voluminous, would seem to have pretty well run dry. Am reduced to: with a very similar name (identical for the first two syllables out of three), is Bobbington in South Staffordshire -- some eight miles south-west of Wolverhampton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wombourne in South Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Seisdon Por Law Union.
Wombourne's parish church is dedicated to St. Benedict Biscop; which -- as opposed to "ordinary" St. Benedict -- is a very rare dedication. However: the Minster Church of Sunderland (Tyne and Wear) is dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels and St. Benedict Biscop.
John Griffiths
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Like Sunderland, Kilnsea in Yorkshire has an acoustic mirror to give advance warning of Zeppelin attacks.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rise in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Holderness Wapentake.
In the same part of the world, but a dozen or so miles to the south-east; is the rather similar-sounding Roos, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bamburgh in Northumberland was also one of the larger settlements in the Brythonic Kingdom of Bryneich.