Xenophon PCDGS
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Greatford in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stamford Poor Law Union.
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DerekC
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The Sway Tower is a 66 metre (218 foot) tall structure built by Andrew Petersen, an eccentric barrister and amateur architect. It is said to be the tallest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world. Rather shorter is the 45 metre (148 foot) tall Cranmore Tower at Cranmore, Somerset, designed by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt and set at the highest point of the Mendip Hills.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Marston Bigot in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Frome.
"Department of erroneous connections" -- another settlement whose name one might, if one didn't know better, think referred to uncharitable / immoderate attitudes / sentiments: is Ireleth, Westmorland and Furness -- five miles north of Barrow-in-Furness. Actual origins of the respective names are, of course, quite different.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Port Isaac in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
Port Isaac and Exeter would seem to be rivals for the distinction of having the narrowest thoroughfare in a built-up area, in Britain / maybe the world 
. Port Isaac's contestant is the alley named Temple Bar -- jocularly called locally, Squeeze-ee-Belly Alley. Exeter's, is Parliament Street.
. Port Isaac's contestant is the alley named Temple Bar -- jocularly called locally, Squeeze-ee-Belly Alley. Exeter's, is Parliament Street.EbbwJunction1
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The Revd Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC (1863 – 1918) was a British Army chaplain and one of the most decorated non-combatants of the First World War. He was born in Exeter and an early part of his education was at the Royal Commercial Travellers School, Pinner, Middlesex from 1872 to 1879.
Pinner is one of many settlements which get a mention -- "glancing" in some cases -- in the verse of John Betjeman. The connection here, is in JB's poem about the lightly-comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith; novel tells of life's ups-and-downs for Charles and Carrie Pooter -- late-Victorian suburbanites, a bit twittish but essentially well-meaning and thoroughly decent, who live in Holloway: now in the London Borough of Islington. Betjeman's relevant stanza: Dear Charles and Carrie ! Yet I'm sure / Despite that awkward Sunday dinner: / Your lives were good, and more secure / Than ours at cocktail time at Pinner.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Styal in Cheshire East is also a settlement in which it was decided to site a prison for female offenders.
EbbwJunction1
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The English human rights activist and author Sir Terence Hardy Waite KCMG CBE was born on 31st May 1939 in Bollington, Cheshire, the son of a village policeman in Styal.
High Dyke
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The impressive Clarence Mill in Bollington, dating from 1877, was powered by two 700hp compound engines supplied by W & J Galloway & Sons. William and John Galloway were engineers who hailed from Coldstream in the Scottish Borders.
(I can recommend the café in the repurposed mill)
(I can recommend the café in the repurposed mill)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the River Tweed.
Resolved: will not mention flaming Sir Walter -- will not -- will not -- going to perhaps tortuous lengths to thus avoid: "names looking and sounding quite like" -- I nominate Abbotsley, Cambridgeshire (three miles east of St. Neots).
John Griffiths
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Belbroughton in Worcestershire also has an annual scarecrow festival.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Church Lench in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Halfshire.
Tetragon213
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Bromsgrove also has an All Saints Church
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tardebigge in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union.
Tardebigge gives its name to a craft-cider undertaking -- doing business on a small scale, but to a high standard of the art-and-mystery, with numerous varieties of apple. Trading under the name Tardebigge Cider, although physically based in Tutnall, a mile or two away. A similar outfit, Hitchcox Cider, carries on its business at Chalgrove, Oxfordshire -- between Oxford and Watlington.
John Griffiths
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Brentford in west London was also the site of a battle of the civil wars of the 1640s (1642, to be precise)
Colloquial sayings from centuries past, relating to place-names: one is, "Like two kings of Brentford" -- refers to former enemies who are now good friends. Further east in the London area: there was a part of Southwark, over which the Bishop of Winchester held jurisdiction; and which specialised in assorted often raffish fun-and-games forbidden in the staid City of London, just on the opposite, north, side of the river. Among the Southwark attractions licensed by the Bishop, were brothels -- would seem not too appropriate for a holy man, but "there you were"... the ladies employed there, were referred to as "Winchester geese".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Windsor in Berkshire is another settlement that had a medieval-period leper hospital.
Tetragon213
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Sandringham also has a royal residence
DerekC
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If any of the royals from Sandringham want to get to Hunstanton, Norfolk, they can get there by way of the Lynx No 35 bus.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Snettisham in Norfolk was also badly affected by the 1953 North Sea Flood.
John Griffiths
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Laxey, Isle of Man, also has a problem with flocks of feral chickens terrifying the villagers.
DerekC
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Furnace, Ceredigion also has a water wheel, although not nearly as large as the one at Laxey. The Laxey wheel drove pumps in a mine, whereas the one at Furnace drove a large bellows to provide draught.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanwnda in Gwynedd also lies on the rute of the A487 road
My mother and uncles -- growing up in the 1920s and '30s in Chester, often visiting North Wales: passed on down to me, assorted mispronunciations -- "genuine", or deliberate-and-humorous -- of North Welsh places; such as, for the above-bolded, "Lan-wonder" -- and for Prestatyn (Denbighshire), "Press-me-'at-in" (press my hat in).