Digswell has a pub called the Cowper Arms. At Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, there is a self-styled "pub / inn / kitchen" called Cowpers Oak. The poet and hymn-writer William Cowper (1731 -- 1800) dwelt during some of his life, at Weston Underwood; whether he himself had any direct connection with Digswell, would seem unclear.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Cold Brayfield in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Newport.
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Painscastle in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rhuallt in Denbighshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Offa's Dyke Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Scawton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ryedale Wapentake.
Scawton Moor -- just south of the hamlet of Scawton -- was the scene of a battle (conventionally called the Battle of Old Byland) in the year 1322, between the English under Edward II and the Scots under Robert the Bruce; the Scots won. A bigger and better-known engagement between the same adversaries, with the same result: was that in 1314, at Bannockburn, Stirling (just south of Stirling town).
D6130
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....or Stirling City as it has now become!
In Mel Gibson's 1996 film 'Braveheart' we see his hero William Wallace fighting alongside Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. However that would have been a physical impossibility, as Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered at Smithfield in London in 1305.
Tetragon213
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Billingsgate also has a market which is due to be shuttered in 2028
The name of Billingsgate is probably most renowned as a synonym for bad language -- which the porters at the abovementioned fish-market were reputed to use profusely and imaginatively. An irresistible association here -- one which I've used before in this game (also has appeal, re the settlement's one-time railway interest) -- concerns Belturbet, Co. Cavan: which John Wesley visited on a missionary journey in 1760, and took a dim view of -- reckoning it full of "Sabbath-breakers, drunkards, and common swearers in abundance". It would seem that his message fell on deaf ears in Belturbet...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eniskillen in County Fermanagh also lies on the line of the River Erne.
John Griffiths
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Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican clergyman and author of the words of the hymn Abide with Me, was educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen; he was born in Ednam, Roxburghshire.
A quick use of the search function reveals that the Reverend is a not infrequent visitor to these pages - mea culpa.
A quick use of the search function reveals that the Reverend is a not infrequent visitor to these pages - mea culpa.
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Ednam seems to have had a lot of ups-and-downs with its parish church -- at least a couple of earlier ones having, in various happenings, suffered destruction. The settlement's first church -- founded early-12th-century -- was dedicated to St. Cuthbert (current parish church appears to have no dedication: I -- no expert in these matters -- have the impression that "Protestant Scotland doesn't do saints"). Also dedicated to St. Cuthbert, is the parish church of Great Glen, Leicestershire -- a little way south-east of Leicester.
I like to indulge the fancy of contemporaries of his, taking the mickey out of him by deliberately misquoting, "Lead, kindly Lyte".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Scraptoft in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billesdon Poor Law Union.
D6130
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Athlone is also situated on both banks of the River Shannon.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire has also hosted the European Triathlon Championships.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Potsgrove in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manshead.
Pubs again -- "not very much else, offers": seemingly rather a long time ago, Potsgrove used to have a pub called the Sow and Pigs. This would seem to be quite a favourite pub name in this general Bucks. / Bedfordshire / Herts. area; it has an outlier of the name, though, in West Bromwich, West Midlands.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wednesbury in West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.
Karl Shuker, keen cryptozoologist -- believer in, and desirous investigator of, mysterious / undiscovered animals worldwide -- lives in Wednesbury. The zoologist / zoo-founder / author on said themes, Gerald Durrell (1925 -- 95) -- though most heavily into study / conservation of "the known" -- had a considerable interest in cryptozoology. Although most associated with Jersey; Durrell in his earlier life, spent a good deal of time in Bournemouth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lancaster also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas More.
High Dyke
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Caerleon, Wales also has a Roman amphitheatre.
John Griffiths
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Arthur Machen, author of works of esoteric and decadent character which gained him great renown in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born in Caerleon in 1863. One of his works, The Bowmen, is thought to have given rise to the Angel of Mons belief in WWI. He died in 1947 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Tetragon213
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Comrie also palyed host to a WWII PoW camp
D6130
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Balmaha in Stirling shore also lies on the Highland Boundary Fault and is prone to regular minor earth tremors.