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Knott End on Sea also has a foot ferry passenger service.
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Hamma52
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(The record from this town was believed to be lost once upon a time, but has since been found!)
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Desperate wordplay to the rescue -- Sandling, Kent (just north of Maidstone) also has a name which can be, a bit creatively, associated with that of a species of wading bird found in Britain -- respectively, the knot (Calidris canutus); and the sanderling (Calidris alba).
Hamma52
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Thorne, South Yorkshire, can also be found immediately beside Junction 6 of a major UK motorway
Thomas Crapper -- according to some, inventor of the flush toilet (authorities on the subject, differ re details; and as to whether the naming was "chicken or egg") was born in Thorne. Another perceived-or-actual inventor, whose "product" was given his name: was Joseph Hansom, of the hansom cab -- born in York.
D6130
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Kettlewell in North Yorkshire also has a pub called the Blue Bell.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bracewell formerly in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the East Division of the Staincliffe Wapentake.
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To the best that I can make out, Bracewell is -- nowadays, at any rate -- in Lancashire (near Barnoldswick), though close to the North Yorkshire border. Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire -- near Cheltenham -- also has a church dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels.
Hamma52
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As a Yorkshireman, it's still a sore subject...
Bishop's Cleeve AFC (football club) compete in the Southern League Division One South. Another town with a team in this division is Falmouth, Cornwall, with Falmouth Town AFC
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ellesmere Port in Cheshire West and Chester also has a boat museum.
Hamma52
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Ellesmere Port has a smaller neighbourhood in it called Whitby. Another place which features a smaller nearby area that shares a name with a town on the North Yorkshire coast is Wouldham, Kent, which has the little hamlet of Scarborough to its south.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pickering in North Yorkshire also has castle remains that are under the care of English Heritage.
Hamma52
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Pickering has a pub called the Sun Inn. Another place that has an inn that shares a name with a UK newspaper is New Brighton, on the Wirral, Merseyside. (The Telegraph Inn)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bryher in the Isles of Scilly was also once administered by the Hundred of the Isles of Scilly
My italics -- thought there were something like 146 of them (I'll get my coat -- or, I'll be performing all next week at the Empire Music Hall in Hugh Town -- be warned !)
The settlement at The Pool in Bryher, is reckoned the furthest-west in England. Easternmost is of course, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Hamma52
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Another place famous for it's porcelain manufacturing industry is Nantgarw, Rhondda Cynon Taf!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cefn-coed-y-cymmer in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough also lies on the line of the River Taff.
Hamma52
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Cefn-coed-y-cymmer loosely translates as "round the back of the trees". A similarly named place in England would be Underwood, Nottinghamshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Hamma52
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Bolton, Greater Manchester, is also the birthplace of a major UK bread making company (Hovis, Macclesfield. Warburton's, Bolton)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hale in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
In a rather pleasingly-rhyming situation, Manchester's south-side suburbs of Hale and Sale are within about three miles of each other. Referred to in a humorous couplet about Manchester commuters-- dating back at least to the very early 20th century, maybe before -- verging on rail realms, but I'll exonerate myself by claiming it as "folklore, not gricing" --
They sleep by night in Hale and Sale, in Manchester by day; / They travel by the CLC, and MSJ&A.
Hamma52
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Sale has a litterpicking group called the Sale Wombles. So too does Northallerton, North Yorkshire, with the Wombles of Hambleton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirby Sigston in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Allertonshire Wapentake.
Tetragon213
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Long Buckby is also home to a church to St Lawrence.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Stockton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.
There are extensive disused clay-quarrying workings very near Stockton. Sometimes on Wiki re a particular settlement, there shows up something marvellously mad-seeming, almost demanding word-for-word quoting: a case in point, here -- in summer 1995, said quarries were "invaded by New Age travellers. The night before they were due to be evicted they held an all-night rave which could be heard as far away as Long Itchington [some two miles to the west]. The publicity surrounding this event caused an increase in trespass in the main larger quarries, which had long been fenced off, and this led to several accidents." Around the same time, there came about -- with perhaps a lesser degree of drama -- somewhat similar situations concerning "raves" carried on by alternative-society types, to the displeasure of more staid citizens of the area: at Golden Hill Fort at Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Armagh in County Armagh also has a planetarium.