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Professional Rugby League side Gateshead Thunder was founded in 1999 but merged a year later with Hull Sharks.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Dun Laoghaire in County Dublin also has a noted maritime museum.
D6130
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Rhu, near Helensburgh in Argyll & Bute, is also home to a noted exclusive yacht club.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Portmahomack in Easter Ross also hosts an annual gala.
EbbwJunction1
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The village of Portmahomack is situated on a sandy bay and has a small harbour designed by Thomas Telford. It shares with Hunstanton in Norfolk the unusual distinction of being on the east coast but facing west, in this case across the Wash.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Jaywick in Essex is another settlement that suffered in excess of 30 fatalities as a result of the 1953 North Sea Flood.
Jaywick used to have a pub called the Mermaid (no longer functioning -- left derelict after a fire). There is a pub of the same name -- still open for business -- at Ellington, Cambridgeshire; four miles west of Huntingdon. (Not particularly near the sea; but "there's no law which says that...")
Xenophon PCDGS
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Steeple Gidding in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Leightonstone.
Steeple Gidding is a tiny hamlet: one of three closely-neighbouring, and linked by name, rural settlements; located roughly intermediately between Peterborough and Thrapston -- not via the line of the River Nene, but considerably east thereof. The three are named Steeple Gidding, Little Gidding, and (the largest) Great Gidding. A comparable rural-settlement name-wise "trinity", about the same short distance from each other; is to be found about sixty miles to the north-east, in Lincolnshire, just south of Spilsby: the Toyntons -- Toynton All Saints (biggest of the three), Toynton St. Peter, and Toynton Fen Side.
Tetragon213
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Louth also lies on the A16
One of several highly-assorted persons of various times, and walks of life, who attended Louth's King Edward VI Grammar School: was a colourful character by the name of Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (1822 -- 86), third son of the 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire. This gentleman served in Britain's Royal Navy between 1835 and 1862; and for the subsequent couple of decades, had a variously adventurous time which included service of some distinction, and attaining high rank, in the Ottoman Turkish navy. Hobart-Hampden was born in Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire: four miles east of Loughborough.
John Griffiths
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Whittonstall in Northumberland also has a pub called The Anchor, despite neither place being near the sea or, as far as I am aware, any form of navigable water.
DerekC
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Whitonstall lies on the Roman road Dere Street, which is followed closely by modern roads most of the way to its crossing of the River Tyne at Corbridge, Northumberland.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bingfield in Nothumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hexham Poor Law Union.
Tetragon213
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The skies over Bingfield were within the borders of RAF Group 13's Usworth sector
Xenophon PCDGS
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Urpeth in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chester-le-Street Poor Law Union.
DerekC
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Urpeth was once one of four sites in the North East licensed for the disposal of low level radioactive waste. Only Cowpen Bewley, Teesside, remained in operation in 1994. It isn't clear whether it is still open.
Barton Stacey, Hampshire -- between Winchester and Andover -- is another smallish settlement with a name which is "double-barrelled, six letters in each".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ebbw Vale in Blaenay Gwent county borough also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
D6130
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Consett in Co.Durham is another inland upland town which was formerly a major centre for the production of iron and steel.
John Griffiths
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Ashington in Northumberland also has a purpose-built Wetherspoon's pub - ie built as a Wetherspoon, rather than a pub or other building taken over by the chain. The Company Row in Consett, the Rohan Kanhai in Ashington.
D6130
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Footballing legend Jackie Milburn was born and died in Ashington. He spent most of his career playing for Newcastle United and England, but spent a couple of years playing for Linfield FC in Belfast.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dundee was also a major settlement connected with linen manufacture.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carmarthen also has a rowing club.
DerekC
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The Black Book of Carmarthen is one of the "Four Ancient Books of Wales" identified by the Scottish antiquary William Forbes Skene. The other book with a geographic connection is the Red Book of Hergest, so called because it was owned for more than three hundred years by the Vaughans of Hergest Court, near Kington, Herefordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brilley in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Huntington.
Mainstone, Shropshire -- three miles west of Bishop's Castle -- is also a village in England, set just south of a metaphorical border-type "promontory / peninsula" of Wales, which stretches eastward into England. (Different respective ones, of these border oddities !)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Wem in Shropshire also lies on the route of the circular long-distance footpath known as the Shropshire Way.
Wiki tells us concerning Wem, that "it is considered that the landscape around the town may be the inspiration for Shakespeare's play As You Like It, a belief reflected in cultural programming [sic -- sounds a bit sinister 
!] in the town." It is understood that the "Forest of Arden" in the play -- into which the characters retreat, to live in idyllic sylvan simplicity -- will have been inspired for the author, via assorted possible sources; not, basically, the real-world Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's native part of the world -- largely deforested even as at his own times. However, given the name; tenuous association can be found, with places in region of the real F. of A. -- for instance, its greatest-extent southernmost point: Coughton, Warwickshire -- two miles north of Alcester.
!] in the town." It is understood that the "Forest of Arden" in the play -- into which the characters retreat, to live in idyllic sylvan simplicity -- will have been inspired for the author, via assorted possible sources; not, basically, the real-world Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's native part of the world -- largely deforested even as at his own times. However, given the name; tenuous association can be found, with places in region of the real F. of A. -- for instance, its greatest-extent southernmost point: Coughton, Warwickshire -- two miles north of Alcester.