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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pendlebury in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine.

 

[Calthrop]

Namesakes, surname-wise, re characters in the 1951 Ealing comedy film The Lavender Hill Mob -- Alfred Pendlebury, one of the chief anti-heroes; and the minor character Miss Evesham (Worcestershire).

 

[Tetragon213]

Leamington Spa is also on the course of the River Avon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedworth in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.

 

[Calthrop]

The River Sowe, a tributary of the Stratford Avon, has its source in Bedworth. Its near-namesake the River Sow is situated not hugely far to the north; but is a tributary of the Trent. The Sow rises near Loggerheads, Staffordshire (four miles east of Market Drayton).

 

[D6130]

There is a pub in Shrewsbury called the Loggerheads Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duffield in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Alkmund.

 

[D6130]

Matlock Bath in Derbyshire also lies on the River Derwent.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hawes in North Yorkshire is also a popular destination for motorcyclists

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gayle in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Hang West Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Mill at Gayle was a contender in the BBC's building renovation programme Restoration, coming third in the 2004 series, which was won by the Old Grammar School and Saracens Head in the Birmingham district Kings Norton.

 

[High Dyke]

Bidford-on-Avon is also the location of a historic Mop Fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampton Lucy in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Barlichway.

 

[Calthrop]

The botanist and plant-collector Charles Maries (1851 -- 1902) was born at Hampton Lucy. Maries spent the majority of his life in Asia, doing "botanical / garden stuff"; but worked for some years at a (plants-type) nursery in what is now Lytham St. Annes, Borough of Fylde (in Maries's time, the place was just Lytham).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellesmere Port in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a "neighbourhood" of the Ellesmere Port urban area, called Whitby (before the relatively new settlement of Ellesmere Port came into being, these parts were officially titled the "township" of Whitby). There is of course another Whitby, of much greater prominence, in North Yorkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Whitby is associated with vampires; but there are other vampiric locations, such as Melrose, Scottish Borders, where a certain Hundeprest, a lately deceased canon, was seen postmortem trying to enter Melrose Abbey; his tomb being opened was found to contain his body drenched in black blood. This and other such occurrences recorded by medieval chronicler William of Newburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jedburgh in Scottish Borders is also the site of a ruined abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

Jedburgh's alternative name of Jethart, features in the Scots expression "Jethart Justice" -- in which, allegedly, a man was hanged first, and tried afterwards (reflecting, I suppose, crime and punishment having tended to be a rough-and-ready business in those long-turbulent parts). We learn from a song greatly liked by our fellow-participant @Xenophon PCDGS : that -- though perhaps not in such a blatantly "White Queen" way -- Halifax (West Yorkshire) in times past, was a place which was apt to be heavy-handed on actual malefactors, and perceivedly "dodgy" types.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sway in Hampshire also has a tall folly tower within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

The 19th-century novelist Captain Marryat's probably best-known work, Children of the New Forest -- its action being at the time of the English Civil War -- is set in Sway: with the children concerned, residing in the real-life Arnewood House in Sway (building since, sadly, destroyed by fire). Another novel by this author, is Poor Jack: said hero being a street kid in Greenwich, Greater London, who ultimately makes good.

 

[High Dyke]

Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire also lies on the Meridian Line.

 

[Calthrop]

Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire also lies on the Meridian Line.

Had a bit of a struggle with this one -- having found that Frampton Marsh is a nature reserve near the village of Frampton, a little way south of Boston; am construing Frampton village as "where to associate with": Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[transportphoto]

I think the lesson learned here is that a RSPB reserve isn’t really a settlement. Let’s carry on though

 

[High Dyke]

Frinton-on-Sea is reportedly the last place on British soil that bombs were dropped by the Luftwaffe in World War II.

The first German bombs to fall on British soil in World War II were dropped on November 13, 1939 in Sullom, Shetland

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burravoe on the Isle of Yell has also occasionally been used as a venue for part of the Shetland folk festival.

 

[High Dyke]

Elvetham, Hampshire was also the scene of an air crash.

 

[John Griffiths]

Elvetham has a pub called the de Havilland Arms. Hatfield, Herts, boasts a 1930s art deco pub called the Comet Hotel, named for the famous de Havilland jet airliner.

 

[Tetragon213]

Hatfield also has a uni which was once a polytechnic

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Digswell in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Broadwater.