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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lechlade in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Thames,

 

[Calthrop]

Biddulph, Staffordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Lawrence.

 

[John Griffiths]

Biddulph has a pub named Roaring Meg. Newark in Nottinghamshire has a pub called The Roaring Meg.

 

[Tetragon213]

The aforementioned "Roaring Meg" was named for a Civil War mortar, which was used to besiege Goodrich Castle.

Relevant Tom Scott

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orcop in Hereforshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wormelow.

 

[Calthrop]

We've just had pubs, so I reckon it the turn of churches. Barnack, Cambridgeshire, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lidgate in Suffolk also has a cut-metal illustrated village sign.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lidgate's name derives from OE hlid gaet, meaning swinging gate; the same origin applies to the name of Leadgate near Consett in County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cliffe in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Dere Street.

 

[Tetragon213]

Cliffe (North Yorkshire, whichever one doesn't matter) shares a common name with Cliffe, Kent

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barry in the Vae of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Tetragon213]

Inverkeithing also had a notable scrapping/metal recovery industry. In Inverkeithing's case, it was shipbreaking.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayr was also created a Royal Burgh in the 13th century.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ayr is the 15th largest settlement in Scotland in terms of population. Its equivalent in Wales is Colwyn Bay.

 

[91130nut]

Sutton-in-Ashfield also has a Wetherspoons pub named The Picture House.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northolt in West London also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph the Worker.

 

[Calthrop]

The academic and bishop Samuel Lisle (1683 -- 1749) is buried at St. Mary the Virgin's Church, Northolt. After serving as chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1710s, he advocated for a better Bible translation in Arabic. Lisle was born in Blandford Forum, Dorset.

 

[DerekC]

Toller Porcorum is another Dorset settlement with a two word name, the second being Latin. Toller Porcorum used to be called "Swines' Toller" and I suspect that some of the inhabitants didn't think that sufficiently respectable. Unfortunately I have no idea how Blandford got its second name.

 

[High Dyke]

Yet another two-worded settlement in Dorset and another location whose church has a drooping or weeping chancel. Toller Porcorum has one in its church, as does Buckhorn Weston.

 

[Tetragon213]

The main road out of Buckhorn Weston is Templecombe Lane

 

[Calthrop]

The main road out of Buckhorn Weston is Templecombe Lane

Viz. Templecombe, Somerset, settlement of rail fame, four miles to the south-west... of the fair number of settlements in Great Britain whose names include "Temple": the great majority -- Templecombe is among those -- owe this nomenclature to association with the one-time order of the Knights Templar. An exception is Templeborough, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire; whose name originated from its being on the location of the remains of a Roman structure believed formerly, to have been a temple; more recent archaeological study, though, considers it to have been a fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peak Forest in Derbyshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Batham Gate.

 

[Calthrop]

There was until 1754, a special exemption whereby the presiding cleric of the Church of Charles, King and Martyr, of Peak Forest; might perform marriage ceremonies without reading of the banns: hence the village's being known in those times, as "the Gretna Green of Derbyshire". Around the 18th and 19th centuries, there was -- thanks (as with Gretna) to Scotland's being "different in these things, from the others" -- a similar role and nickname vis-a-vis Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway; and eloping couples from north-eastern Ireland -- making use of the "shortest boat crossing" between Portpatrick and Donaghadee.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, also has a NAVTEX station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chorley in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[John Griffiths]

Eccleston in Lancashire also lies on the River Yarrow.

 

[Tetragon213]

Onchan on the IoM also has a golden postbox

 

[John Griffiths]

Stock car racing also takes place at the Adrian Flux Arena in Kings Lynn, Norfolk

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was also the scene of anti-Semetic riots in 1190.

 

[Tetragon213]

Washington (Tyne & Ware) also shares its name with a US president.