Xenophon PCDGS
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Romford in East London also had a medieval-period leather industry.
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John Griffiths
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Snooker world champion Steve Davis is associated with Romford, where he began playing at a local snooker club, but was born in Plumstead, SE London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chedzoy in Somerset also had an ancient timber trackway discovered within its environs.
A thing which I used last year, re this settlement: it was the scene of considerable doings in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685 against King James II (that episode ended badly for very many in the rebel camp, not least the luckless Duke; but their side of course decisively triumphed a few years later).
D6130
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Pecket Well, near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, also has a pub called the Robin Hood.
DerekC
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From Pecket Well Brontëbus B3 will take you in 25 minutes or so to Haworth, West Yorkshire
D6130
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Sutton-in-Craven in North Yorkshire also has a pub called the Black Bull.
John Griffiths
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Ruislip in NW London also has a pub called the Black Bull.
The poet / archaeologist / Jesuit priest / travel writer / biographer / academic / reviewer / critic (a versatile chap) Peter Levi (1931 - 2000): was born in Ruislip. He died in Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire -- very near the Slimbridge wildlife site.
High Dyke
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Wigan is also associated with a food related contest.
Frampton-on-Severn. Eels
Wigan. Pies
Frampton-on-Severn. Eels
Wigan. Pies
Xenophon PCDGS
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Andertons Mill in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wigan Poor Law Union.
The rural area of Lancashire in which Andertons Mill is located, features some oddly-named settlements. We learn that Andertons Mill is in the parish of Hilldale, which also includes the like-named (and oxymoronically so !) village of Hill Dale. A little way to the south are the villages of Robin Hood ("the chap who got everywhere"), and Dangerous Corner.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Heskin in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chorley Poor Law Union.
Tetragon213
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Wilmslow (Cheshire) is also home to a pub called The Farmers Arms.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clay Cross in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.
Clay Cross's St. Bartholomew's Church was built and consecrated in 1851. Wiki comes out with strange stuff sometimes -- its tendency this way, seeming partcarly pronounced in relation to Church matters. Per Wiki: the Rev. Joseph Williams and his wife Emma were St. Barts' "first conscientious incumbents" (their predecessor
D6130
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Whence does the association continue when the previous one has been struck through? 
My keyboard has "gone stupid" -- the striking-through happened inexplicably: no doing of mine ! -- I can find no way of remedying it. Please might the striking-through of the latter part of the post, be ignored?Whence does the association continue when the previous one has been struck through?
Tetragon213
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Harry Kane was born in Walthamstow, and he captains the England National Team. His predecessor, Jordan Henderson, was born in Sunderland
D6130
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No problem on my part....I was just checking what had happened. Let the game continue!
D6130
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Bishop Auckland is also situated on the River Wear.
It seems (fingers crossed) that the striking-through nonsense was just a strange and brief, random "one-off" thing: gear apparently now behaving itself once more.
Another English settlement whose name features that of one in New Zealand, plus another word: is Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire -- between Abingdon and Faringdon. (Auckland we know about -- Kingston is down in the south of South Island; has some renown on the heritage-rail scene.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stanford in the Vale in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ock.
Tetragon213
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Stanford has a common name with a famous University in the United States, as does Dartmouth
Xenophon PCDGS
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Knott End-on-Sea also has a cross river ferry.
Knott End-on-Sea has a pub called the Bourne Arms -- no other pub of that name in Britain, discoverable by me. Being a bit cheeky, however: attempted Googling to that end, turned up a pub in Bourne, Lincolnshire, by the name of the Burghley Arms.
Tetragon213
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British Racing Motors (otherwise known as BRM) was founded in Bourne. The team's first (and only) WDC title was in 1962, with Graham Hill, who was born in Hampstead (London)
Inspiration seems in short supply for me at present -- as with Hampstead here; getting tortuous and far-fetched -- name (semi)-similarity -- there is in Berkshire, the village of Hampstead Norreys or Norris, six-odd miles north-east of Newbury.
High Dyke
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Wellesbourne, Warwickshire was also the location of a Royal Air Force OTU ( Operational Training Unit)