Xenophon PCDGS
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Templederry in County Tipperary also has a place of worship named Church of the Immaculate Conception.
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Templederry is located near the Devil's Bit Mountain, 480m. above sea level. The legend explaining the mountain's name, tells of the Devil taking a bite out of it -- hence noticeable gap in mountain between one outcrop of rock and another small plateau. He broke his teeth in the process, and spat the bitten-off part out -- it landed twenty miles to the south, to become the Rock of Cashel (also in Co. Tipperary).
Hamma52
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Bolton, Greater Manchester, also has a library called "Bolton Library"
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yeovil in Somerset also has an Octagon Theatre.
The humorous author Stephen Potter -- inventor of "Lifemanship", "Gamesmanship", and sundry other "...manships": makes considerable play with the name of Yeovil; his fictional Lifemanship Association is supposedly based at 681 Station Road, Yeovil. I've read a bit of this guy's stuff, but found it off-puttingly "arch and mincing": adjectives which for me, likewise apply -- and cause me to wish for no truck with the works -- to the long novel cycle by Anthony Powell, whose main character has the surname Widmerpool, after the Nottinghamshire settlement of that name (seven miles or so north-east of Loughborough).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coningsby in Lincolnshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.
I quote Wikipedia re Coningsby's parish church, St. Michael's: "The church tower has a most unusual clock, with a one-handed clock face. It is one of the few one-handed clocks in the country (there is another at St. Andrew's church in Holt, Norfolk) and the largest."
High Dyke
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Marlborough, Wiltshire is another town that suffered a destructive fire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Uffcott in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Selkley.
Tetragon213
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Broad Hinton sits opposite Uffcott on the other side of the A4361
Hamma52
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Halifax, West Yorkshire, was also once home to a Speaker of the House of Commons.
Tetragon213
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Nelson is named for one Adm. Horatio Nelson, who himself was born in Burnham Thorpe
Xenophon PCDGS
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North Creake in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Burn.
Tetragon213
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Many De Havillands were scrapped at RAF North Creake, having started their lives at DH's factory in Hatfield
High Dyke
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Sleaford, Lincolnshire also has a working watermill.
Mill Green Museum is a working watermill in Hatfield.
Cogglesford Mill in Sleaford.
Mill Green Museum is a working watermill in Hatfield.
Cogglesford Mill in Sleaford.
Hamma52
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Ancaster could potentially be somebody talking about northern cities, but missing off the first letter.
In which case, Radford, Worcestershire might also be a place that said man with an aversion to a city's first letter could talk about
In which case, Radford, Worcestershire might also be a place that said man with an aversion to a city's first letter could talk about
All I was able to find about Radford, Worcestershire; is that it is a tiny hamlet near Inkberrow -- which latter, featured in this game a very few weeks ago. Am taking the liberty of making an association with a semi-namesake in the same part of the country: which would seem to have rather more about it, to tell of -- Radford Semele, Warwickshire -- just south of Leamington Spa.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leek Wootton in Warwickshire was also once administered by the large-area encompassing Hundred of Knightlow.
Hamma52
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Pepper Arden, North Yorkshire, also has a vegetable in it's name
(yeah, this might've been a little obscure in retrospect, but hey! Our capital letter missing hypothetical friends doesn't discriminate!)
I'm going to be an annoying nitpicker, I'm afraid. I couldn't find Pepper Arden as a settlement as such; only as an estate near the village of Whitwell, North Yorkshire -- sone half-dozen miles north-west of Northallerton. Hope it's OK therefore, for me to take Whitwell to associate from. I lean that in times past, this settlement was sometimes called Nether Whitwell in the Whins -- a long-winded jaw-cracker to rival Preston upon the Weald Moors in Shropshire (a little way north of Telford).
Capital-letter-missing doings -- I'm waiting to hear from Illiam cOnagall, celebrated bad poet resident in Undee ...
Hamma52
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Brilliant!
As for Pepper Arden, it IS a settlement, but as you rightly pointed out, tied around the hall. It's marked on nearby roadsigns, but Whitwell also checks out!
Preston upon the Weald Moors is one of the longest place names in England, clocking in at 24 letters. The ACTUAL longest, and again going back to my home North Yorkshire, is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliff.
High Dyke
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Challenging Sutton-under-Whitestoncliff for the title of having the most letters in the location name gives us Wiggenhall Saint Mary the Virgin, Norfolk. Unlike S-u-W though, it isn't hyphenated.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
Dick Turpin would appear to bear a certain resemblance to Robin Hood (besides their similar occupations); in that the bloke seems, allegedly, to turn up everywhere. Dick is said to have been a customer at the George Hotel, Huntingdon; and to have dwelt at one stage of his life in Buckhurst Hill, Essex (Epping Forest area).
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Trowbridge in Wiltshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Hamma52
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Tamworth, Staffordshire, is also the birthplace of a football player in Leicester City's 2015/16 Premier League winning squad.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Baverstock in Wiltshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Editha.
High Dyke
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The aforementioned church was restored between 1880–1893 by the architect William Butterfield. Another one of his designs is the Golden Lion Hotel (1850) in the Norfolk sea-side town of Hunstanton.