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Xenophon PCDGS
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Quatford in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.
Pubs /dogs / Danes: Quatford has a pub called "The Danery" -- which lays claim to being "the dog-friendliest pub ever". While I don't hate dogs; I'm not a big fan of them -- have always liked Chesterton's crack about "a dog is a very fine thing, until owners start to spell the word backwards": I don't feel inclined to visit this Quatford establishment. Continuing this general theme: Beachamwell, Norfolk -- between Swaffham and Downham Market -- has a hostelry with the name of the Great Danes Licensed Guesthouse.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hailsham in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church named Christ Church.
Tetragon213
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It is not to be confused with the hamlet of Healds Green, also in Greater Manchester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chadderton Edge in Greater Manchester is another ancient part of the same land area which was settled by Angles after the Battle of Chester.
D6130
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Little Barford in Cambridgeshire was also once the site of a coal-fired power station.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wrestingworth in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Biggleswade.
Apologies for being a nitpicker; but I can construe the above only as Wrestlingworth, with an "l"; in Bedfordshire (a mile west of the Beds. / Cambs. boundary). The last woman to be publicly hanged in England, was Sarah Dazley of Wrestlingworth -- not a nice lady: she had poisoned two husbands and a child. S.D. was hanged outside Bedford jail in 1843. The last female-offender public execution in Ireland was the hanging in 1821, outside Kilmainham jail in Dublin: of Bridget Butterly and Bridget Ennis, for the murder of a lady resident in the house where Butterly was a servant.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glasgow also has a noted mixed botanic garden.
John Griffiths
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The layout of the new town at Livingston was an influence on the plan for Washington new town in Tyne & Wear.
John Griffiths
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Washington (Sussex) has a pub called The Frankland Arms - as does the North Yorkshire town of Thirsk.
High Dyke
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Thirsk Hall in Kirkgate is a grade II* listed three-storey town house built in 1720 and extended in 1770 by York architect John Carr.
Carr's own favourite work was Buxton Crescent in Derbyshire
Carr's own favourite work was Buxton Crescent in Derbyshire
Xenophon PCDGS
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Harrogate in North Yorkshire was also developed as a spa town.
In Arthur Ransome's childrens' / "young adults" novels about sailing and other outdoors-y pursuits: a not very likeable character is the young protagonists' formidable and tyrannical great-aunt; who lives in Harrogate, but periodically visits the Lake District to make the kids' lives a misery. In those of the series set in the Norfolk Broads: another unsympathetic character is George Owdon -- like many in the stories, a resident of the Broads village of Horning.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Barton Turf in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Smallborough Poor Law Union.
Tetragon213
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Wikipedia lists out the names on Barton Turf's war memorial. Of note is just a singular name from WW2; one Leading-Stoker William Blake, who died aboard HMS Beverley, escorting Convoy ON-176 on its way to Liverpool
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stoke-on-Trent was also chosen as a site in which to host the National Garden Festival,
Tetragon213
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne is another city with an oft-dropped river suffix.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Salford also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.
D6130
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Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester is also situated on the River Irwell.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dundee also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.
Matters in the general "twin towns / sister cities" ballpark: Malmesbury, Wiltshire, also has such links with a settlement in the French departement of Loiret. Dundee's link -- seemingly termed a "sister city" rather than a "twinning" one, is with Orleans; Malmesbury's is with Gien.
John Griffiths
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Malmesbury originated as a burh, a fortified point established by Alfred the Great in his campaign against the Vikings. Many of these burhs subsequently developed into towns - one such being Wallingford in Oxfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aston Tirrold in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Moreton.
Trendy licensed premises / "eateries" with olive-themed names: Aston Tirrold's pub, formerly the Chequers Inn, has been transformed into a gastropub called The Sweet Olive. Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, has a "modern Greek pub and restaurant" called The Woodman and Olive.