Xenophon PCDGS
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Guilden Morden in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Armingford.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Rothiemerchus in Highland also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Rothiemurchus and its ambient forest: a good place for red squirrels. On a much smaller and slightly "artificial" scale (the invasive grey ones can't get across the water) is likewise, Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset -- Brownsea, with its tiny resident human population, qualifies as a bona fide settlement.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheviock in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wickham in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Titchfield.
John Griffiths
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Appleby in Westmorland also has an annual horse fair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkby Stephen also lies on the line of the River Eden.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Treagh in County Louth was also once administered by the Barony of Dundalk Upper.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanbadrig in Anglesey also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.
High Dyke
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The first Isle of Man submarine telegraph cable to the mainland was laid from Cranstal to St Bees on the Cumberland coast in 1859. Due to damage from tidal currents the cable was later moved to Port Cornaa.
The name of St. Bees is a corruption of the Norse name for the settlement; which is given in the earliest charter of the Priory there, as Kyrkeby becok (which strikes me as looking like a weird mixture of Danish and Turkish 
) -- translatable as "Church town of Bega": referring to the local Saint Bega, said to have been an Irish princess who fled across the Irish Sea to what would become St. Bees, to avoid an enforced marriage. Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, has a church dedicated to the same lady.
) -- translatable as "Church town of Bega": referring to the local Saint Bega, said to have been an Irish princess who fled across the Irish Sea to what would become St. Bees, to avoid an enforced marriage. Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, has a church dedicated to the same lady.
Tetragon213
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Windermere also has a sailing club
High Dyke
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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde.
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for Lord Darlington, who has recently confessed his love for her.
Character names were seemingly inspired by places Wilde had visited.
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for Lord Darlington, who has recently confessed his love for her.
Character names were seemingly inspired by places Wilde had visited.
D6130
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As in Lady Blackwell and Mr Worthing in another of his plays?
High Dyke
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It's easy when the inspiration comes from the places around us.
D6130
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Reverting to Darlington, Great Ayton in North Yorkshire was also once a noted centre of the Quaker faith (Society of Friends).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rudby in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Langbaurgh Wapententake.
Tetragon213
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Andover is also twinned with a town in Germany and a town in France.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Quarley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Andover.
John Griffiths
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Quarley is linked by bus service 5 to - among other places, including Andover, where the service starts and terminates - the Hampshire village Weyhill.
Tetragon213
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Weyhill falls within the civil parish of Penton Grafton
Grafton is a place-name quite often encountered in England; with a number of settlements in various parts of the country, called "Grafton" (only), or with "Grafton" as prefix or suffix of a more-than-one-word name. Worcestershire would seem to be particularly Grafton-rich: with in different areas of the county, two just-plain Graftons; and Grafton Flyford. This village (six miles east of Worcester), chosen here; for its seemingly having more to tell about, than either of the "Grafton-only's".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Atherton in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
John Griffiths
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Atherton has a football team which rejoices in the name Atherton Laburnum Rovers FC, and plays in the North West Counties Football League Division One North, alongside inter alia Euxton Villa FC, from Euxton, Lancs.