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[Tetragon213]

Peterhead also has a power station

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Turriff in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 16th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Bit of a "stretch" maybe: but -- odd doings, of which local memory still "green" today -- in Turriff in 1913; involving a local farmer who refused to pay the newly-introduced National Insurance contributions for his workers: a stance which had much sympathy locally. By official fiat, a cow of his was seized; whence acrimonious / farcical doings, re attempts to sell the beast by auction. Remembered locally, as the matter of the "Turra Coo": a statue of the animal concerned, was erected in the town in 2010. (And in the Wiki article on Turriff, the Turra Coo features in the list of -- otherwise human -- "notable residents".)

Turriff, thus, of some fame vis-a-vis matters bovine. It could be suggested that Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, is a counterpart concerning equine ditto -- with Tom Pearce's grey mare; and the settlement's having been one of the filming locations for the 2010 World War I film War Horse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pennycross in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Pancras.

 

[Tetragon213]

West Bromwich also has an All Saints Church of England Primary School

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wednesbury in the West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

The first authenticated spelling of the name was Wodensbyri, written in an endorsement on the back of the copy of the will of Wulfric Spot, dated 1004. Wednesbury ("Woden's borough")

Another location in England to be named after the pre-Christian deity Woden, the leader of the Old English pantheon, is Grimscote, Northamptonshire

Grim being another name for Woden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Potcote in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Towcester.

 

[Tetragon213]

You know it's going to be a challenging one when you can't use wikipedia, nor does the village have a church, pub, river, or school!

The main road running past Potcote is Banbury Lane

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rugby in Warwickshire also lies on yje line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Badminton in Gloucestershire also has a sport named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tortworth in Gloucestershire was also administered by the Upper Division of the ancient Hundred of Grumbalds Ash.

 

[John Griffiths]

Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire also boasts a s venerable tree, the Major Oak (Tortworth has the Tortworth Chestnut).

 

[High Dyke]

Bramdean, Hampshire is also the location of a monument to a horse.

 

[Calthrop]

Tockwith, North Yorkshire -- between York and Wetherby -- is also a mile or so from a Civil War battlefield. (Bramdean -- Cheriton; Tockwith -- Marston Moor.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wighill in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ainsty Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

George Walker (c.1645 -- 1690) -- Anglican clergyman and, latterly, administrator and soldier (on the "Williamite" side) in the disturbances of the very late 17th century -- was born in Wighill. (Killed at the Battle of the Boyne.) He was co-Governor of [London]derry during its siege in 1689; commemorated by a plinth, with plaque, on the walls of that city -- plinth was surmounted by an imposing column, until destruction of same in the round of the "Troubles" which began in the late 1960s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strabane in County Tyrone also lies on the line of the River Foyle.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Bees, Cumbria, also features in a "non-limerick". The "deathless verse" concerned:

There was a young man of Strabane / Whose limericks never would scan. / When they told him 'twas so, / He replied, " Yes, I know; / But the thing is, you see, that whenever I compose a limerick, I always do my very best to get just as many words into the last line, as ever I possibly can."

and: There was a young man of St. Bees / Who was stung on the arm by a wasp. / When they asked, "Does it hurt?" / He replied, "Could be worse; / It's a good job it wasn't a hornet."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keld in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Coast to Coast Walk.

 

[Tetragon213]

Richmond (North Yorks) also lies on the path of the River Swale

 

[D6130]

Rochester in Kent also has a Norman castle with a large square keep.

 

[Calthrop]

Waddington, Lincolnshire -- a little way south of Lincoln -- also has a namesake settlement in New York State, USA.

 

[D6130]

Leeming in North Yorkshire also has an RAF airbase.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Temple Hirst in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

Bantham, Devon -- near Kingsbridge -- also has a pub called the Sloop. (Temple Hirst lies well inland; but on the River Aire; on which, we learn, craft called "sloops" were customarily used.)

 

[Tetragon213]

South Brent Devon is also on the line of the Devon River Avon.

 

[High Dyke]

Corby Glen, Lincolnshire is also a venue for a sheep / lamb fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinstead in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Beltisloe Wapentake.

 

[High Dyke]

The splendidly named Beaumont Griffith Jarrett was an English footballer who earned three caps for the national team between 1876 and 1878.

Jarret was ordained in 1878 and continued his career with the church. He was the vicar of Swinstead from 1883 to 1895 and rector of Belleau, Lincolnshire from 1895 until his death, aged 49, in April 1905.