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Mungrisdale also has a pub owned by Robinsons.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilmarnock in South Ayrshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Kentigern
Me with twinnings, once again: Ellesmere, Shropshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Belgium. Kilmarnock's "twin" is Herstal, near Liege; Ellesmere's is Diksmuide. (Am trying for scrupulous fairness between Belgium's two communities: Herstal being in Walloon country, and Diksmuide in Flemish ditto.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rostherne in Cheshire East also has a mere within its environs.
Fancifully, couldn't "Rostherne" quite well be the name of a town in Belgium?
As things are: find self forced back on church dedications. Rostherne's parish church is yet another St. Mary's -- there must be more churches in the British Isles with this dedication, than any other... one of said very many "St. Mary's 's": is in Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mareham-le-Fen in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.
We learn that "it is believed" that the deserted medieval village of Birkwood, was located near Mareham-le-Fen. Another deserted one-time village, was Onley -- county-boundary oddities: Onley was (just) in Northamptonshire; but was a very short way south of Rugby, Warwickshire.
John Griffiths
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Rugby is the easternmost town in the West Midlands region. The westernmost town in the East Midlands region is New Mills in Derbyshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Taxal in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Goyt.
Googling delivered re Taxal: an extremely long and complicated tale, clearly put up on the Net by an enthusiastic historian of such things; of the ups-and-downs over the centuries, of Taxal's parish church of St. James, and the doings of its clergy -- including a certain amount of "skulduggery" in which ministers of God are not supposed to engage. One incident herein: the appointment in the 1880s, of the Rev. Samuel Evans, MA, as rector -- "it appears that he had appointed himself" [sic]. This clerical gent had been previously for some time, rector? vicar? -- Church of Ireland, presumably -- of Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh.
John Griffiths
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Irvinestown was founded by Sir Gerard Lowther (1561-1624) and originally named Lowtherstown. Lowther had been born in Lowther, Westmorland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clophill in Bedfordshire was also once administered bt the ancient Hundred of Flitt.
John Griffiths
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Flitwick, Beds, also lies on the River Flit (a waterway, we imagine, that is free of mosquitoes and other aerial beasties).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Redbournestoke.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Weymouth in Dorset also has a Guildhall.
John Griffiths
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That admirable organisation the Ordnance Survey had its headquarters at Chessington between the early 1940s and 1969; it had previously been, and subsequently was based in Southampton.
(The Chessington interlude was brought about by German bombing of its premises in 1940).
(The Chessington interlude was brought about by German bombing of its premises in 1940).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Templemore in County Tipperary also has a convent of the Sisters of Mercy.
D6130
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The Garda Training College - where all police officers in the Republic of Ireland are trained - is located at Templemore. The Police Service of Northern Ireland's training college is located in Belfast....but has an out-based campus in Antrim.
Referencing the failed Irish uprising against British rule in 1798 -- subject of many impassioned songs in favour of the insurgents. One such, is the ballad of Roddy McCorley: a leader of the rising, in the north-eastern part of Ireland. The song tells of him: " 'fore Antrim town, 'fore Antrim town, he led them to the fray..." but unsuccessfully; resulting in his subsequent execution at Toome alias Toomebridge, Co. Antrim.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilrea in County Lodonderry also lies on the line of the River Bann.
There is a locally celebrated, and of very considerable antiquity, "Fairy Thorn Tree" which stands just outside the front wall of the First Kilrea Presbyterian Church. The town holds an annual summer cross-community Festival of the Fairy Thorn (hopefully the Presbyterians don't get hot under the collar about this instance of Papist superstition right at their door 
) -- involving sundry wholesome jollifications. Another settlement featuring a, "from way back", thorn-tree / religion cross-over: is Glastonbury, Somerset.
) -- involving sundry wholesome jollifications. Another settlement featuring a, "from way back", thorn-tree / religion cross-over: is Glastonbury, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tobermory on the Isle of Mull also hosts an annual music festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Widnes in the Borough of Halton also has a church that is dedicated to St John Fisher.
Some century-and-a-half ago: pollution, especially of the air, from various industrial processes, rendered Widnes an infamous "black spot" for same, even by the standards of those times. Widnes was described in that period as "the dirtiest, ugliest and most depressing town in England"; and "a poisonous hell-town". Plenty of other places in heavily-industrialised parts of Britain in that era, were found "unsavoury" for the same basic reasons -- even if not in the same degree as Widnes. Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent County Borough, received then a good deal of unfavourable notice on that score.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gateshead in Tyne and Wear has also hosted the National Garden Festival.