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Wiveliscombe in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Kingsbury.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Withypool in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Barle.
John Griffiths
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The author R D Blackmore wrote part of Lorna Doone at Withypool. However, it is claimed that he said he preferred to be remembered for winning the first prize for swedes than as the author of Lorna Doone. Such swedes would have been grown at the market garden he established and ran - not entirely successfully, first prizes notwithstanding - at Teddington, west London.
High Dyke
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St. Neots is another location with a dragon boat racing team.
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Chepstow is another town where quads were born and all survive to this day.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winchester in Hampshire also has a noted Public School.
John Griffiths
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Winchester is associated with Arthurian legend (the very authentic Round Table that I saw when my parents took me on a trip there as a child); as is Arthuret in the northernmost bit of Cumberland.
In the general area of Arthuret (re which copious legend-related / nomenclatorial verbiage in Wiki; with so far as I can make out, only tenuous links to Arthur & Co.) is Netherby Hall, ancestral home of the Graham / Graeme family. "It and them" feature in Sir Walter Scott's much-loved-and-anthologised ballad of Young Lochinvar: which also mentions Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway -- some three miles to the north, and just on the Scottish side of the border; as Netherby / Arthuret are just on the English thereof.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Langholm in Dumfries & Galloway also lies on the line of the River Esk.
D6130
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The 20th century Scots Communist and Nationalist poet Hugh MacDairmid was born in Langhoim. He died at Brownsbank, just outside of Biggar, South Lanarkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Carrickfergus in County Antrim also has a Gasworks Museum.
John Griffiths
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Sean Lester, an Irish diplomat and League of Nations official, was born in Carrickfergus in 1888. From 1940 to 1946 he was secretary-general of the League, and oversaw its dissolution in 1946. He died in 1959 in Recess, County Galway.
Recess's Irish name is very different: Sraith Saileach, meaning "Stream of the Willow Tree". Also name-featuring said variety of tree-kind is Willoughby, Lincolnshire -- 7 or 8 miles north-west of Skegness -- whose name is from the Old Norse wilig-by = willow-tree farm / settlement.
(I feel that American visitors must find the name of the Co. Galway place, comical -- a settlement called after school playtime !)
(I feel that American visitors must find the name of the Co. Galway place, comical -- a settlement called after school playtime !)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Austerfield in South Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helena.
If I might make so bold as to carry on with church-related themes, but in a different context: that of the "quasi-erotic carvings of female figures" termed "sheela-na-gigs", sometimes found in Norman churches -- purpose to celebrate, and / or to warn against, lusts of flesh, or?? Austerfield's St. Helena's church has one, in the nave (was blocked into a wall in the 14th century, and rediscovered in 1898 during restoration work). The church of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire -- 7 miles south of Cambridge -- also has a sheela-na-gig; with a slightly different "focus".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sutton Valence in Kent also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.
High Dyke
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The Stroud pound is a local currency in use in Stroud. Other towns with their own currency include Totnes, Devon.
D6130
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Stroud and Totnes are the two towns in the South-West of England most associated with alternative 'green' lifestyles and co-operative business models, thereby attracting a population of artists, craftspeople, musicians and left- leaning academics....as well as 'hippies'. The North of England equivalent is Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. (Incidentally, Hebden also had its own local currency - the Hebden Pound - for a number of years....but unfortunately it now seems to have fizzled out).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.
D6130
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Keighley in West Yorkshire was also once a major centre for the manufacture of textile mill machinery and stationary steam engines.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkby Malham in West orkshire was also once administered by the Staincross Wapentake.
Kirkby Malham's parish church contains the signature of Oliver Cromwell, who witnessed a marriage in the church in 1655. "Cromwelliana": Romsey, Hampshire, has a pub called the Cromwell Arms -- though it seems uncertain whether there is any direct link with old Noll.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Upper Eldon in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of King's Somborne.
So far as I can make out, Upper Eldon seems to be a sort of phantom settlement -- hardly mentioned by any of the "sources"... however it does seem to at any rate have had, a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. A thoroughly "live-and-kicking" settlement, also with a church with that dedicatee: is Albrighton, Shropshire -- between Telford and Wolverhampton.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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The source material to which I made reference to stated Upper Eldon was a hamlet which still had two working farms, unlike Lower Eldon which has none.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sutton Maddock in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Brimstree.