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Xenophon PCDGS
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St Mawgan in Cornwall also has a working brewery.
(Per game played long ago, which I've mentioned: patron saint of pirates
.)Long Whatton, Leicestershire -- between Loughborough and Kegworth -- also has a pub called the Falcon Inn.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Osgathorpe in Leicestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of West Goscote.
Hamma52
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Unlike the other times I've infringed a quiz rule (oops!), I was aware of the separation of the two quizzes. Hence why I chose to pick a connection revolving around a closed line, where settlement 2's station (and building) have been lost to time, and settlement 1 didn't have a station even when the line was open. For me, this was enough difference from Station's Association for me to be happy to use it, and I'm glad the quizmaster is in agreement. Nonetheless, it's useful to have clarification on the admittedly grey area! I'll be more careful in the future
Anyway! Letting bygones be bygones:
Ripley, Derbyshire, can also be found near a disused canal
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lerwick in Shetland also has a spiritualist church.
Tetragon213
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Scalloway was the original capital of the Shetlands, before Lerwick took the mantle in the 1600s
Hamma52
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Lochranza, Isle of Arran, also has an L-Plan castle
Xenophon PCDGS
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Folach in Highland is another area of Scotland where red deer habit.
Hamma52
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Rhiwargor, Powys, also has a large waterfall nearby that's rather difficult to reach. (Though not as difficult as Folach).
(@Xenophon PCDGS , you might be able to help out with this. Is there a settlement at Folach? I've been fortunate enough to visit the lovely Inverie and hike in the surrounding hills, granted this was a while ago. I was under the impression there wasn't anything inland around the Knoydart area, and that most villages were coastal? Google and OS Maps don't have anything. I'm happy to be proven wrong though as my memory fails me, and I'm genuinely interested as it's such a beautiful area!)
(@Xenophon PCDGS , you might be able to help out with this. Is there a settlement at Folach? I've been fortunate enough to visit the lovely Inverie and hike in the surrounding hills, granted this was a while ago. I was under the impression there wasn't anything inland around the Knoydart area, and that most villages were coastal? Google and OS Maps don't have anything. I'm happy to be proven wrong though as my memory fails me, and I'm genuinely interested as it's such a beautiful area!)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Many years ago (at least thirty), Folach was made mention of in a radio programme about red deer in that area (and also the Isle of Arran) as having a small biological study complex where scientists could spend some months in the year.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Is that waterfall the same one that is called Pistyll Rhyd-y-meincau by the speakers of the Welsh language in that area?
Hamma52
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Very interesting, thank you so much for this!
That's the one! A lovely spot. There is a couple of things to say about Rhiwargor as well, despite there only being a few farmhouses in the area.
High Dyke
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Just to clarify, both of you are talking about different waterfalls.
Pistyll Rhaeadr is a stunning waterfall in the Berwyn Mountains, just inside Wales, west of Oswestry and Shrewsbury. That feeds into the River Rhaeadr (Welsh: Afon Rhaeadr).
Pistyll Rhiwargor (known locally as Pistyll Rhyd-y-meincau) is one of the highest waterfalls in Wales and sits at the northern end of Lake Vyrnwy. It feeds into the River Vyrnwy (Welsh: Afon Efyrnwy)
The village sits close to Lake Vyrnwy, which supplies water to Liverpool.
Hamma52
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This is the one I was referring to!
Liverpool is twinned with Cologne in Germany (amongst many other places!)
Another UK settlement twinned with a large German place is Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, which is twinned with Weimar.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yaxley in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Norman Cross.
High Dyke
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Perth, Scotland was also a location where prisoners were held during the Napoleonic Wars.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway also hosts an arts and music festival.
There is an ongoing undertaking called the Langholm Project or Langholm Study -- focused on the long-standing dissension between the interests of nature / wildlife conservation; and of the sport, big-time, of grouse shooting; concerning which those involved in the latter, tend to engage in the illegal killing of birds of prey, in order to maximise their grouse numbers (the moors around Langholm are one of the many areas where this is an issue). The Project attempts to work out some kind of compromise between the two sides... the predator species which suffers worst in this business, is the hen harrier. Said species does well in the Isle of Man, where "Big Grouse-Shooting" is not a factor -- a particularly good Manx area for seeing hen harriers, is near Onchan.
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High Dyke
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In Manx the name for the village (Onchan) is Kione Droghad meaning "bridge end". There are numerous examples of areas called bridge end, but I find there is a Northumbrian village called Bridge End.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Badby in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.
High Dyke
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Aldwincle, Northamptonshire is also on the course of the River Nene.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ashton-on-Mersey in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
Hamma52
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Ashton-on-Mersey is the birthplace and childhood home of British TV actor Karl Pilkington.
As well as his part on the Ricky Gervais show, he also received critical acclaim for his comedy documentary "The Moaning of Life", which reflects on middle age and getting old thereafter. The particularly effective and well received series 1 finale, entitled "Death" ultimately concludes with Pilkington looking at a memorial of a Ghanuan woman, Madam Comfort Asaaba Cofie, on a bin in Hastings, East Sussex.
(It sounds anti climatic, but it's a fantastic episode!)
As well as his part on the Ricky Gervais show, he also received critical acclaim for his comedy documentary "The Moaning of Life", which reflects on middle age and getting old thereafter. The particularly effective and well received series 1 finale, entitled "Death" ultimately concludes with Pilkington looking at a memorial of a Ghanuan woman, Madam Comfort Asaaba Cofie, on a bin in Hastings, East Sussex.
(It sounds anti climatic, but it's a fantastic episode!)
Hamma52
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Exeter FC are one of few professional English football clubs who are owned by their supporters (instead of a conventional third party stakeholder model)
Another team in this description are AFC Wimbledon, who play their home games in... you guessed it, Wimbledon, London.
Another team in this description are AFC Wimbledon, who play their home games in... you guessed it, Wimbledon, London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eastbourne also hosts a tennis tournament.
High Dyke
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Eastbourne grew as a fashionable tourist resort largely thanks to prominent landowner William Cavendish, later to become the Duke of Devonshire.
After a long illness, Devonshire died at his residence, Holker Hall near the village of Cartmel in Cumbria, in 1891.
After a long illness, Devonshire died at his residence, Holker Hall near the village of Cartmel in Cumbria, in 1891.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Little Urswick in Westmorland and Furness was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ulverston Poor Law Union.