Xenophon PCDGS
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Felixkirk in North Yorkshire also was once administered by the Birdforth Wapentake.
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High Dyke
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The village takes its name from the dedication of the church. There are many instances of this, Kirk being another name for church. Another village named as such is Kirkmichael, South Ayrshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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D6130
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There seems to be some confusion here between Kirkmichael in South Ayrshire - which does not lie on the River Ardle - and Kirkmichael in Perth & Kinross - which does. I suggest that we continue from Kirkmichael, South Ayrshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Skegness in Lincolnshire also has a miner's welfare home.
Indulging a couple of maybe quasi-obsessions of mine -- seals; and inadvertent? daftness on the part of Wikipedia. Both Horsey, Norfolk; and Skegness; have seal-type associations. There is a noteworthy colony of grey seals, the Horsey / Winterton one: living on a stretch of the Norfolk coast some ten miles north of Great Yarmouth -- with support and care from the voluntary organisation Friends of Horsey Seals. At Skegness is the Natureland Seal Sanctuary, which per Wiki, "rescues and houses distressed seals; it also features [very much sic] penguins, aquariums, and other animals" -- way to get things splendidly wrong in 2/3 different "departments"...
EbbwJunction1
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The church of Horsey All Saints is one of 124 existing Round-tower churches in Norfolk; another is St Mary's, Burnham Deepdale.
High Dyke
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Thornham, Norfolk is also served by the Coastliner bus service.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yate in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Henbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanymynech in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Agatha.
Tetragon213
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Chepstow also lies on the Offa Dyke Path
D6130
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Goodrich in Herefordshire also has a large ruined castle overlooking the River Wye.
Tetragon213
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Corfe Castle (the village) also saw its castle (Corfe Castle itself) slighted during the English Civil War (which is why both are currently in ruins!)
The Corfe Model Village is located on the village square; and shows what the castle and village would have looked like in 1646 before the abovementioned slighting. Wimborne Minster, also in Dorset, has -- situated near the eponymous Minster church -- a model village or town: an accurate reproduction in miniature, of the town centre.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chippenham in Wiltshire also hosts a folk festival.
EbbwJunction1
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St. Nicholas Church, Chippenham was built in 1779 and replaced an older medieval church that had previously stood on the same Hardenhuish site. The church was designed by the English architect John Wood the Younger (1728 – 1782) of Bath. His work was mainly in that city, but outside Bath, his most notable works include Buckland House, a large Georgian stately home which is the manor house of Buckland in Oxfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leigh in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
John Griffiths
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Leigh was formed in 1875 by the merger of the townships of West Leigh, Pennington and Bedford. Habitues of this game probably won't be astonished to learn that there is another Bedford, in Bedfordshire.
Bedford's World War I memorial was designed -- as were a number of such in Britain -- by the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, 1885 -- 1934 (with whom my maternal grandfather was personally acquainted). Jagger was born in Kilnhurst, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
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John Griffiths
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I remember seeing that war memorial on a day trip to Bedford in the early 80s, and being struck by the incredibly smug expression on the knightly figure portrayed (look it up if you don't believe me). Goole is also served by the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation network of waterways.
DerekC
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Goole is the home of the Metsa Tissue toilet roll factory, capable of an output of 250,000 tonnes, or approximately a billion rolls, per year. There is a factory with similar capacity at Bridgend, Glamorgan belonging to WEPA GmBh. With that lot I calculate that the Andrex puppy would be able to get to the moon and back about thirty times before running out of roll.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ogmore-by- Sea in the Vale of Glamorgan also lies on the line of the River Ewenny.
Tetragon213
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Ogmore's name in Welsh (Aberogwr) roughly translates as "Mouth of the River Ogmore". Inverness follows a similar etymological origin (Inbhir Nis translating as "Mouth of the River Ness)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Montrose in Angus was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.
EbbwJunction1
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The skyline of Montrose is dominated by the 220-foot steeple of The Old and St Andrew's Church ('Auld Kirk'). This was designed by the Scottish architect James Gillespie Graham (1776 – 1855) and built between 1832 and 1834. One of his early works was the Parish Church and manse at Snizort (a civil parish in the north-eastern part of the Isle of Skye) which was completed between 1800 and 1802.
Tetragon213
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St Andrews is also notable for its ruined cathedral
D6130
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St Andrews University - founded in 1411 - is the oldest university in Scotland and the second oldest in the UK. The only older one in the UK is at Oxford.
EbbwJunction1
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Norman Colin Dexter OBE (1930 – 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Inspector Morse, from 1987 to 2000. Although closely associated with Oxford (and awarded the Freedom of the City of Oxford in 2001), Colin Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire.