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[Tetragon213]

Hanbury (Staffs) would also play host to a site where a major disaster involving wartime explosives occurred.

In Hanbury's case, it was RAF Fault, and Tom Scott tells the story better than I ever could.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Burton-upon-Trent Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Wheelock, Cheshire -- just south of Sandbach -- also lies on the Trent and Mersey Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swettenham in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Northwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Also sharing / having shared ("in varying degrees" the one vis-a-vis the other) name with a settlement in Malaysia: is Beaufort, County Borough of Blaenau Gwent (near Ebbw Vale). Port Klang in Peninsular Malaysia -- essentially, Kuala Lumpur's port -- was Port Swettenham until 1972. Beaufort -- still bearing that name today -- in Sabah, Borneo; lies some forty miles south-west of the capital Kota Kinabalu. Admittedly, both South-East-Asian settlements were called not after the British ditto; but took their names from the surnames of colonial-administrating gentlemen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crosskeys in Carphilly County Borough also lies on the line of the Ebbw River.

 

[Calthrop]

The Welsh name of Cross Keys, is Pont-y-Cymer. Some twenty miles west thereof: is a settlement with, essentially, the same name: Pontycymer (sometimes spelt with a second "m"), Bridgend County Borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangeinor in Bridgend County Borough also lies on the line of the River Garw.

 

[John Griffiths]

Irvin GQ in Llangeinor manufactures parachutes; Hearhcote Fabrics, in Tiverton, Devon, makes parachute fabric

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halberton in Devon also lies on the line of the Grand Western Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Halberton's pub is called the Hickory Inn -- which would seem to be a pub name unique in Britain. This hostelry was, however, formerly named the Barge; a pub of which name, exists today in Battlesbridge, Essex -- between Wickford and South Woodham Ferrers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire is also home to a number of antique centres.

 

[Calthrop]

Turnditch, Derbyshire, also lies on the A517 road; eight miles east of Ashbourne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alderwasley in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Belper Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Okehampton, Devon; also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sydenham Damerel in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Litton.

 

[Calthrop]

In Sydenham Damerel, there is a -- hotel? -- anyway, place where people can stay -- called Squirrel Creek. On the general theme of small lovable arboreal mammals: there is a part of the London Borough of Havering, called Squirrels Heath (with the way these things tend to go, name probably nothing to do with the animal).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sinan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Tetragon213]

St Asaph also lies on the B5381

 

[D6130]

St Asaph is the second smallest city in the UK. The smallest is St Davids in Pembrokeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfair Nant-y-Gof in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dewisland.

 

[Tetragon213]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch also has a "St Mary's Church". In fact, I believe the Llanfair part refers to having a church dedicated to St Mary.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanfair-etc., as above, is acknowledged as the longest place-name in the British Isles. One of the shortest must be the village of Ae, Dumfries and Galloway -- about nine miles north of Dumfries.

 

[D6130]

Llanfair-etc., as above, is acknowledged as the longest place-name in the British Isles. One of the shortest must be the village of Ae, Dumfries and Galloway -- about nine miles north of Dumfries

Ae is indeed the shortest place name in Britain. It lies on the eponymous Water of Ae, which joins the Kinnell Water just outside the small town of Lochmaben.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothesay was also created a Royal Burgh in the 15th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Rothesay was also created a Royal Burgh in the 15th century.

Will not mention fleas -- will not -- WILL NOT ...

There are in Rothesay and its immediate environs, several golf courses; including that of the Port Bannatyne Golf Club, which has an unusual thirteen holes. The Isle of Arran a little way to the south-west, has another unconventional-holes-number golf course: that of Shiskine (Arran, North Ayrshire), with its twelve holes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It is hard not to mention something of which there were half-a-million of.....

Lendalfoot in Ayrshire also has a hermit's cave.

 

[Calthrop]

Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, also lies on the A77 road; is, in fact, its southern extremity.

 

[John Griffiths]

Portpatrick is at the western end of the Southern Upland Way. The eastern end is at Cockburnspath in Berwickshire.

 

[Calthrop]

We find that Cockburnspath's name is nothing to do with port (or Charles II); but is a worn-down form of the former name, Colbrand's Path; after the folkloric evil giant Colbrand. Legend has it that "way pre-1066", Colbrand was slain in single combat by the hero Sir Guy of Warwick, on Hyde Mead at Hyde Abbey, located just outside Winchester, Hampshire.