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[D6130]

Govan in Glasgow also had a shipbuilding yard belonging to Harland & Wolff.

 

[Tetragon213]

HMS Indomitable was built in Govan. One of her sisters, the ironically named HMS Invincible, was built in Elswick.

"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today!" - Admiral Beatty
(Incidentally, there's one hell of an argument about whether or not Beatty was aware or possible even complicit in the awful ammo handling procedures of his battlecruisers; I remain of the opinion that the buck stops with Beatty)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llansteffan in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Calthrop]

Llansteffan's Norman-built castle was granted to the Marmion family -- tribe of the nobility active as magnates in bygone centuries, in assorted parts of England and Wales. Sir Walter Scott's historical-times verse epic Marmion (generally reckoned overly melodramatic for modern tastes) has as its hero the "Scottish nobleman" Lord Marmion -- whereby Sir W. would seem to be playing fast and loose with historical fact: the Marmions -- as above -- did their stuff south of the Border. The hero of this saga dies in appropriately heroic fashion at the Battle of Flodden, 1513 -- which battle, as we know, took place closer to the village of Branxton, Northumberland; than to the village of Flodden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yeavering in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Glendale Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Yeavering features in a song about exploits long ago, of the local College Valley fox-hunt. This an issue about which my feelings are divided -- at all events, there's a somewhat "stretched" association with a kindred outfit far to the south, the Meynell Hunt in the Derbyshire / Staffordshire area: with a song (mixture of painfully corny, and heart-touching) commemorating it. The "Meynell" 's kennels are / were at Sudbury, Derbyshire -- very close to the Staffordshire border.

 

[Tetragon213]

Kirkham (Lancs) also plays host to a Category D (Open) Prison

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garstang in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness

 

[D6130]

Hawes in North Yorkshire also has a creamery which manufactures Wensleydale cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Binsey in Oxfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.

 

[Calthrop]

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 -- 89) wrote a poem, Binsey Poplars, lamenting the felling of a line of trees of that kind, alongside the River Thames at Binsey (said trees were subsequently replaced). A much more recent situation with some likeness, was the -- much reported and discussed -- cutting down in September 2023, in an act of individual, non-official vandalism: of the resplendent sycamore tree at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall. The nearest settlement thereto, would seem to be Henshaw, Northumberland (four miles east of Haltwhistle).

 

[Tetragon213]

Haltwhistle is also on NCN Route 72

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorngrafton in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Haltwhistle Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

(Jeez, that town looks like the sort of place time forgot! )

Hmm...

During the Battle of Britain, the airspace above Thorngrafton was within the borders of No. 13 Group RAF, who were based at RAF Blakelaw

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Coal was formerly mined at Ingoe, "in a small way of business". The same has been true -- as the settlement's name suggests -- and on a rather larger scale: of Coalisland, Co. Tyrone (about fifteen miles north-west of Portadown).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Family.

 

[Calthrop]

The omniscient Wiki tells us that Southport is the second-largest town in Britain with no direct dual-carriageway link to the national motorway network. The largest such is Eastbourne, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton also hosts a noted tennis tournament.

 

[Calthrop]

The prolific author Georgette Heyer (1902 -- 74), chiefly known for her Regency-period romantic novels, was born in Wimbledon. Relatively late in her life, she embarked on what was to be an ambitious historical-novel trilogy covering the doings of the House of Lancaster throughout the 15th century: with which for various reasons, she never got very far. A major figure in the trilogy was to be John, Duke of Bedford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luton in Bedfordshire also lent its name to a commercial motor vehicle.

 

[D6130]

Bedford also has a large Italian community.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rules:

• Repeating any of the previous three clues or names of settlements in a link is forbidden

It seems that Bedford appears in two of the last three postings.

 

[D6130]

It seems that Bedford appears in two of the last three postings.

So it does....Mea culpa! Post deleted and replaced by:

Aylesbury also has a large Italian community.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford in Hertfordshire was also a settlement on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[D6130]

Denham in Buckinghamshire is also situated on the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Virginia Water in Surrey also has a noted golf club.

 

[D6130]

On first arriving in the UK in 1973, American academic and author Bill Bryson worked for a couple of years at the now-closed Holloway Sanitorium psychiatric hospital at Virginia Water, where he met his wife Cynthia Billen. They lived for a while in the 1990s at Kirkby Malham in North Yorkshire - during which time I met him at Skipton station on more than one occasion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kildwick in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Staincross Wapentake.

 

[D6130]

Cerrigydrudion in Denbighshire also has a pub called the White Lion.