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Sedbury House is a Grade II* listed Georgian building, which was designed by Sir Robert Smirke. He is best known as the architect of the British Museum in London, but he was also responsible for the design of the Sheriff Court at Perth (the Scottish one, not the Australia one!).
 
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Also mentioned in (another) folk song, as the operational base of a lovable young woman active in, essentially, the non-vegetarian food field: is Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk -- between Ipswich and Colchester. (Respective occupations -- fishwife, and goose-girl.)
 
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Boston, Lincolnshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Mayenne. Hayling Island's "twin" is Gorron; Boston's is Laval.
 
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Boston is the original place from which the Pilgrim Fathers (or some of them, in the form of the Scrooby Congregation) first set sail in pursuit of religious freedom, in 1607. They were betrayed, caught by the local authorities and locked up. The following year they succeeded in getting to the Netherlands. They stayed there in Leiden until 1620, when they started out for their epic journey across the Atlantic, convening with others and provisioning the voyage on the Speedwell in London, joining up with the Mayflower in Southampton and setting sail for the New World. The Speedwell started to leak so they put into Dartmouth. They tried again but the problem continued and they only got as far as Plymouth, whence they departed in the Mayflower only, the Speedwell having been abandoned as unseaworthy.
 
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There are a fair number of Plymouths in the USA: am choosing the most incongruously far from the sea -- Plymouth, Indiana. Also with a namesake settlement in that State: is Greencastle, the most north-easterly settlement in Co. Donegal.
 
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St. Stephen's church in Sparsholt is in the Downs Benefice. Another church in the same benefice is that dedicated to St. Peter and Holy Cross at Wherwell, Hampshire.
 
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Freefolk has a pub, formerly the Freefolk Arms; nowadays named the Watership Down, after the novel about "all things rabbit", by the local author Richard Adams. (The eponymous Down -- a real place -- lies some five miles north of Freefolk.) Adams lived for the majority of his life, in this very part of the country; but dwelt for a few years at Knocksharry, Isle of Man -- a couple of miles north-east of Peel.
 
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Selby, North Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Manche. Bransgore's "twin" is Saint-Georges-Montcocq; Selby's is Carentan.
 
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Culinary / pork-butchering department: British Isles settlements with, named after them, methods of preparing ham reckoned to have been developed there -- we have York ham, and Limerick ham.
 
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As in the "burlesque" Irish-patriotic song -- The harp and the shamrock and the old Claddagh Ring / The round tower of Clonmacnoise... the Claddagh Ring being a thing in Irish jewellery, with a symbolism motif of heart / crown / two clasped hands = loyalty: the Claddagh having been the original fishmongers' quarter of Galway city -- picturesque but primitive thatched-cottages area, replaced in the 1930s by a council-housing scheme.
 
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The current road bridge spanning the Afon Tywi in Carmarthen was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis. He also designed Glenmona House, Cushendun, County Antrim
 
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Another lining-up-with, "Knockna..." hamlet / townland / whatever, in Northern Ireland: Knocknagor, near Trillick, Co. Tyrone (between Omagh and Enniskillen) -- desperate doings felt to be allowable, concerning minuscule Irish settlements...
 
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As above -- re tiny places in Ireland: some "latitude" reckoned permissible. Aghadrumsee is just on the N.I. side of the border: very near to -- and pre-partition, in many ways closely associated with -- Clones, Co. Monaghan (which was in former times -- stuff not directly usable in this game -- of big significance vis-a-vis the Great Northern Railway of Ireland).
 
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Gloucester shares with Lichfield, the trait that the present-day names of both, gradually evolved over many centuries -- starting with the Romans -- and involving various languages, including Brythonic / Celtic ones -- and with some minor disagreements among the scholars, as to precisely what may have happened when. (In 669 AD, St. Chad acquired as the headquarters of his bishopric: what is now Lichfield -- then called Licidfelth, which looks a bit disgusting :smile:.)
 
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