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Shoreham-by-Sea also lies on the line of the River Adur.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Towton in North Yorkshire was also the scene of a battle during the War of the Roses.
Toton, Nottinghamshire -- a little way north-east of Long Eaton, part of the "greater Nottingham" built-up area: "reads and sounds a lot like the above Towton, but not altogether" -- it would seem that the Yorkshire settlement is pronounced to rhyme approx. with "cow-pen"; and the Notts. one, approx. with "token".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanwenarth Citra in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Britwell Salome in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Lewknor.
Fetching out something which we had in March, but which I like: involving "double-barrel-named" settlements, whose names would seem to refer to characters featuring in the Gospels; but in fact not so. For Britwell Salome -- Salome the daughter of Herod II and his wife Herodias; who -- bit of a complicated narrative -- having danced at Herod's birthday celebration and been applauded and invited to ask for whatever she wished: requested, and received, the severed head of her father's prisoner John the Baptist. In fact, the "Salome" in the Oxfordshire settlement is reckoned to be derived from the surname Sulham. In Cheshire East, a little way south of Nantwich, is Coole Pilate: Pontius not involved here -- name figured to mean, "in the old tongues", "a croft growing pill oats".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wybunbury in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Nantwich Poor Law Union.
Wybunbury is adjacent to the "wilderness" area Wybunbury Moss: a National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest; also, incidentally, renowned in local lore for assorted "spooky-type doings". Similar renown accrues to the forested area of Cannock Chase, in the environs of Cannock, Staffordshire.
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Newport in South Wales also has a German war cemetery.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Longtree.
Minchinhampton's name is derived from the Old English mynecen = nun (cognate with the male equivalent "monk"), and heatun = town or settlement -- "the nuns' high town" (there wasn't actually a convent there, so far as I can make out; the connection is that at one time, Minchinhampton belonged to the nunnery of Caen in Normandy). Another settlement with a monastically-themed name, is Nun Monkton, North Yorkshire -- eight miles north-west of York. The Yorks. settlement's name comes from its having had a Benedictine nunnery between the 12th and 16th centuries.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Howdendyke in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ouse.
Howdendyke is included in the civil parish of Kilpin -- which comprises also, the villages of Kilpin and Kilpin Pike -- and which has been named in a survey, as among the ten most affluent areas in the country. Higher still on the "affluence" scale, is reckoned the area of St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Melbourne in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael with St Mary.
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Brighton in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalen.
Tetragon213
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Bognor Regis, much like Brighton, was viewed by the Victorian as a coastal health resort; the former would play host to King George V after a lung operation, and he had some... "strong" opinions on Bognor.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Filey in North Yorkshire is another settlement that was chosen as a site in which to site a Butlin's holiday camp.
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Yedingham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.
Tetragon213
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Yedingham was once its own parish, until it was merged into the neighbouring civil parish of Ebberston
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Do you mean Ebberston ?
Tetragon213
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Yes, Ebberston. Looks like my keyboard didn't pick up the second b!
It is recounted that, some time in the Dark Ages: Alfrid, King of Northumberland, sought sanctuary -- a little before his death -- in a cave near Ebberston. There is brought to mind, from that general era, the similar-sounding -- but of course, thoroughly different -- Alfred the Great: who at a low point in his fortunes; took refuge from the Danes, in the Somerset Levels -- region of Athelney, village five or six miles south-east of Bridgwater (the "cakes" episode).
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Crowland in Lincolnshire was also chosen as a site in which to erect a Benedictine Abbey.
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Walton, Cambridgeshier was the birthplace of Thomas Stiles (spelt "Styles" in other sources), who was governor of Crowland (then still called Croyland) during the English Civil War.
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