Xenophon PCDGS
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Ulley in South Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
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DerekC
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Ulley was the location of a Starfish decoy fire site, built in 1940 and intended to divert bombers heading for Sheffield. A similar site intended to protect Bristol was located on Black Down in the Mendips, near Burrington, Somerset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lympsham in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Brent-cum-Wrington.
As has been remarked on before -- you'd swear that sometimes, amateur comedians sneak their material into Wikipedia articles, in the guise of supposedly serious information. The article on Lympsham suggests for name origin -- as it puts it, likely "a combination of, Old English, something like lind-pyll = pool where lime trees grow; and ham = village or estate". Article reckons this derivation more probable, than the supposed alternative suggestion of "a suitable home", from OE ge-limplic + ham. One feels that somebody's got to be at the wind-up here -- who's for the every-four-years Ge-limplic Games?
Lympsham's name brings to mind the better-known Lympstone, Devon; near Exmouth. Wiki does not suggest a derivation as such for this one; just mentions its being first encountered, in the Domesday Book as "Leuestona".
Lympsham's name brings to mind the better-known Lympstone, Devon; near Exmouth. Wiki does not suggest a derivation as such for this one; just mentions its being first encountered, in the Domesday Book as "Leuestona".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Topsham in Devon also lies on the line of the River Exe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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London also has a statue of Charlie Chaplin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Budock in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Kerrier.
Tetragon213
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Tony Kellow was born in Budock. He played for Exeter City FC
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chichester in West Sussex also has an Anglican cathedral and a ship canal.
D6130
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Chichester Cathedral has a detached bell tower, as does that at Chester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glyndyfrdwy in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.
Tetragon213
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Cwmystwyth is another place in Wales with no vowels in its name
John Griffiths
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Banc Mawr near Cwmystwyth is, according to Ordnance Survey calculations, the centre point of Wales. The centre point of England, according to the OS, is Lindley Hall Farm, close to Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire.
High Dyke
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Meanwhile, Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire is calculated by the Ordnance Survey to be the farthest point from the sea (at the mean low water line) in Great Britain.
Further to these kind of themes (all of which stuff I tend to take with a grain of salt): the geographical centre of the island of Ireland is allegedly near the village of Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath -- 8 miles south-west of Mullingar.
John Griffiths
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They are pretty hot on hurling in Castletown Geoghegan - the village team is the current Westmeath Senior League champion, and they have won that title 15 times. That is, however, two times fewer than the hurling team of Clonkill, Westmeath.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Toberaquill in County Westmeath is also a townland in the civil parish of Rathconnell.
I reckon that concerning this game, and Irish "townlands": anarchy is what obtains -- in playing, pretty well "anything goes". Neither Wiki, nor the Marco Polo 1:300,000 Ireland map: name or show Toberaquill as one of Rathconnell parish's townlands. (Not quarrelling with post #36,739; just, in my opinion, as above -- here, "anarchy [non]-rules".) At all events -- the excellent Marco Polo map would seem to show, in the more "anglophone" parts of Ireland, a good many microscopic settlements with delightfully mad names. Close by Rathconnell per the map (again, not listed by Wiki) are Pass if you can, and Crazy Corner.
A parallel -- if a bit pale and humdrum in comparison -- might be found within a couple of miles of Wendling, Norfolk (a little way east of Dereham): a bunch of hamlets called Crane's Corner, Ivy Todd, and Daffy Green.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wikipedia does have an entry for Toberaquill, which states that it is situated seven kilometre north-east of Mullingar and is one of eleven townlands in the civil parish of Taghmon.
Apologies -- I "assumed without checking". And: post #36,739 states that Toberaquill is a townland in the civil parish of Rathconnell.
Can things recommence nonetheless, from my Wendling, Norfolk; or must Toberaquill remain the association-from point?
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Xenophon PCDGS
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This is the posting from which this thread should be continued.
John Griffiths
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Wendling used to have four pubs, all now gone so far as I can make out. One was named the Red Hart, a name shared with an establishment in Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Abbotsbury in Dorset was also a site chosen in which to establish a Benedictine monastery.
John Griffiths
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Reg Taylor's garden centre at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, also has a swannery, if a swan sanctuary can be so described.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a noted minster church.
John Griffiths
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Beverley has two marketplaces - the Saturday and Wednesday markets. Likewise, Kings Lynn has its Saturday and Tuesday marketplaces.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ipswich in Suffolk was also an English trading outpost town of the Hanseatic League.