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Uddingston in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
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Uddingston -- a little way east of Glasgow -- was home to Glasgow Zoo for that institution's 1947 -- 2003 life-span. Another big city's zoo which has closed in the 21st century: was the venerable and highly-esteemed Bristol Zoo, 1836 (reckoned thereby, the world's first provincial-city zoo) -- 2022. Bristol Zoo does live on "in reduced circumstances" as the Bristol Zoo Project; located near Patchway, South Gloucestershire (on the northern fringes of Bristol city).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shrewsbury in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Chad.
D6130
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Hampton Loade in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.
Resorting to a bit of "ducking-and-diving" -- Hampton Loade, a tiny hamlet, lies on the opposite bank of the Severn from the village of "just plain" Hampton. There are in England, some half-dozen settlements thus bearing the name of Hampton (only): most of them too small and obscure for it to seem possible to find anything to tell of them. One of the relatively less small-and-obscure: would seem to be Hampton, Worcestershire; just on the other side of the River Avon, from Evesham.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oldberrow in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackenhurst.
Claverdon, Warwickshire, also lies on the A4189 road. (@Xenophon PCDGS -- you always have, to resort to, these Hundreds and things -- which are a closed book to me !)
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Do you ever recall a children's sweet treat called Hundreds and Thousands?
Berwick in East Sessex also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wadhurst in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
Hawick, Scottish Borders, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Nord. Wadhurst's "twin" is Aubers (this twinning choice, partly arising from a World War I episode impinging on both places); Hawick's is Bailleul (nothing particularly World War-related, as far as I know).
@Xenophon PCDGS: whilst you're a whiz at long-ago administrative divisions, I come into my own with town-twinnings
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Stafford is also a settlement that was chosen as a location by the Normans in which to build a motte and bailey castle after their invasion in the 11th century.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cartmel in Cumbria also has a Natioanal Hunt racecourse.
DerekC
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Cartmel was once a major centre of manufacture for sticky toffee pudding, but alas the Cartmel Sticky Toffee Company has now moved to Flookburgh, also in Cumbria.
D6130
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The industrial estate on the former airfield at Flookburgh is nowadays also home to the Hawkshead Brewery....originally founded at Hawkshead but, until recently located at Staveley in Furness & Westmorland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Muthill in Perth and Kinross also has a church that is dedicated to St James.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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That last posting must have been on the wrong quiz, from what is said above in emboldened text.
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The painter and woodcut artist Arabella Rankin was born in Muthill in 1871. She died in Kensington, London in 1943.
Carleton, Cumbria (very near Egremont and St. Bees) also has a namesake settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Melmerby in Cumbria also lies on the route of the A686 road.
There is another Melmerby: in North Yorkshire, some sixty miles south-east of the above-bolded one. (The Yorkshire Melmerby has -- whisper it -- some "back-in-the-day", sub-trunk-line, rail significance.)
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Coverham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Hang West Wapentake.
The Triple Crown-winning jockey Harry Grimshaw (1841 -- 66) is buried in Coverham churchyard. The much-later-date and far-better-known jockey Lester Piggott (1935 -- 2022), died and is buried in foreign parts; but was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
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Smethwick in West Midlands also has a branch of the long-established Anglican religious order of the Community of St Mary the Virgin.
The actress Dame Julie Walters spent her early years in Smethwick. In the Harry Potter films, Dame J. plays Molly, matriarch of the Weasley family: said family being resident in the fictional village of Ottery St. Catchpole. The name clearly "borrowed" by J.K. Rowling, from that of Ottery St. Mary in east Devon (I have the feeling, from context in the books, that despite the name: the Weasleys' village is located a bit further east -- Wiltshire or Berkshire?).
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Alfington in East Devon also lies on the line of the River Otter.
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Lymington in ampshire also has an open-air salt water pool.