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[Calthrop]

Elvington in Kent also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Miner's Way Trail.

I did try re the Kentish village in its own right; but without success. There is another Elvington, in North Yorkshire -- seven miles south-east of York (and not unknown to standard-gauge-light-railway fans).

 

[High Dyke]

The former RAF Elvington has seen further use as a race track and drag racing strip. However, Santa Pod Raceway was Europe's first permanent drag racing strip. It was also adapted from the former RAF station at Podington, Bedfordshire .

 

[Calthrop]

Cholsey, Oxfordshire -- near Wallingford -- also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

(I had come across the name Santa Pod, context as above -- thought it an odd-and-curious title, but had no idea "what it was all about". Thank you for the enlightenment !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sotwell in Oxfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wallingford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sotwell - or at any rate Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, as it now appears to be named, is home to the Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary. Another refuge and home for those agreeable equines is the Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary at St Boswells, Scottish Borders.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bowden in Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as St Cuthbert's Way.

 

[Calthrop]

There would seem to have been in the 18th and 19th centuries, a remarkable plethora of poets -- unrelated to each other -- all named James Thomson, and all born in southerly parts of Scotland. Four altogether: from the info, they all seem to have been at least somewhat better at their craft -- not that that would have been hard -- than a certain gentleman from Dundee, contemporary of three of them. Perhaps the best-known of these J.T's is the earliest-born (in 1700; died 1748); who spent the second half of his life in England -- latterly living in Richmond-upon-Thames -- and wrote the words of Rule Britannia. The poetic James Thomson associated with Bowden, however: was born there, in 1827; date of death 1888.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames also has a lock on the River Thames.

 

[DerekC]

The boundaries of the Port of London Authority run from an obelisk just south of Teddington Lock to a line drawn across the mouth of the Thames estuary, roughly between Margate in Kent and Frinton on Sea in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

 

[DerekC]

Blackburn features in the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" as the place where four thousand holes were counted, so now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall, which is of course in South Kensington, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Douglas in the Isle of Man also has a noted museum.

 

[Calthrop]

"Place-names and locations around northernmost part of the Irish Sea": some sixty miles north-east of Douglas, IOM: is -- coincidentally? -- Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Byley in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Lower Peover, Cheshire West and Chester, also lies on -- or all-but -- the B5081 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[DerekC]

Ashbourne used to be a source of bottled mineral water drawn from a spring owned by the Nestle corporation and sold widely, including (as far as I remember) in Waitrose. Sadly production was shut down in 2003 because the company wanted to sell the site for redevelopment. Waitrose sources its "Waitrose Welsh Spring Water" from the hamlet of Trap (or Trapp), Llandeilo, Carmarthen.

 

[Calthrop]

Also lying exactly on the boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park, is Abercraf, Powys -- "such as us" are perhaps more likely to know it by the alternative spelling of Abercrave; which was that of its long-closed station on the one-time Neath & Brecon system.

 

[91130nut]

Also located in the historic county of Brecknockshire is Crickhowell, famous for its castle remains and coaching inn.

 

[D6130]

Abergavenny also lies on the River Usk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Congleton in Cheshire East also hosts an annual food festival.

 

[D6130]

Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire also has a microbrewery.

 

[Calthrop]

John Tillotson (1630 -- 94): Anglican clergyman and, for the last few years of his life, Archbishop of Canterbury (and seemingly a moderate and nice guy, by the standards of the times and his job), was born in Sowerby Bridge. He was briefly in the 1660s, Rector of Kedington, Suffolk -- just east of Haverhill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Wratting in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Risbridge.

 

[91130nut]

Newcastle-upon-Tyne also has an Old Post Office listed on the National Heritage List. No longer in use as a Post Office though.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belfast also has "heraldic" seahorses on its coat of arms.

 

[Calthrop]

There are "twinning" or equivalent links, between the respective British cities, and ditto in China (despite recent international tensions, both -- as far as I know -- still hold good) -- as follows: Belfast with Shenyang, Manchuria (I've been to both, boast boast); and Swansea with Nantong, near Shanghai.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanilar in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanilar in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

(I'll bet Nantong doesn't !) Rhydargaeau, Carmarthenshire -- four miles north-east of Carmarthen -- also lies on the A485 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhyd-y-clafdy in Gwynedd was also chosen as a site for a Primitive Calvanistic Baptist chapel.