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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jaywick in Essex also suffered a death total in excess of 30 as a result of the North Sea Flood of 1953.

 

[Calthrop]

Rookhope, County Durham -- some five miles north-west of Stanhope -- also has a name whose first syllable is that of a bird of the corvid family.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Byley in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Alrewas in Staffordshire is also located on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fradley in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lichfield Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire is also on the route of Icknield Street (also known as Ryknild Street), a roman road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babbacombe in Devon also has a model village.

 

[Calthrop]

Babbacombe has a cliff railway. Hastings, East Sussex, has two thereof -- the East Hill and West Hill ones.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Meeting House of the Society of Friends.

 

[Hamma52]

Ipswich Town's nickname as a football club is "The Tractor Boys", which although appearing to connote to Suffolk's agricultural history, is actually a fairly recent jib by away fans (believed to be Birmingham in 1998), which Ipswich fans then reclaimed for their own.

Another team who it's theorised did this were West Bromwich Albion, known as the "Baggies". Allegedly, fans from cross city rivals Aston Villa mocked the baggy trousers that West Brom fans turned up to games in, and the nickname stuck. This is a disputed take, but nonetheless bears resemblance to that of Ipswich's.

Of course, West Brom play their games in West Bromwich, West Midlands

 

[Calthrop]

Inspiration lacks -- back to Bolton, Greater Manchester, I'm afraid; which we had only a few days ago. I sometimes wonder whether I'm the only person on the planet who detests Monty Python and all its works -- at all events, I'm given to understand that in a particularly admired sketch, the work of said abomination: there is intendedly comic by-play involving confusion between Ipswich, and Bolton.

 

[Calthrop]

Ipswich Town's nickname as a football club is "The Tractor Boys", which although appearing to connote to Suffolk's agricultural history, is actually a fairly recent jib by away fans (believed to be Birmingham in 1998), which Ipswich fans then reclaimed for their own.

Another team who it's theorised did this were West Bromwich Albion, known as the "Baggies". Allegedly, fans from cross city rivals Aston Villa mocked the baggy trousers that West Brom fans turned up to games in, and the nickname stuck. This is a disputed take, but nonetheless bears resemblance to that of Ipswich's.

Of course, West Brom play their games in West Bromwich, West Midlands

@Hamma52: In this instance, I'm glad to have been "pipped at the post". Thank you !

Betty Boothroyd (1929 -- 2023) -- Speaker of the House of Commons 1992 -- 2000 -- served long as MP for West Bromwich. She was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.

 

[Hamma52]

@Hamma52: In this instance, I'm glad to have been "pipped at the post". Thank you !

Betty Boothroyd (1929 -- 2023) -- Speaker of the House of Commons 1992 -- 2000 -- served long as MP for West Bromwich. She was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

You're more than welcome!

Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.

Boot, Cumbria, also contains the name of a shoe

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ravenglass in Cumberland also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

[High Dyke]

Eskdale and Rafnglass (modern Ravenglass) feature in Rosemary Sutcliff's final novel (1992) Sword Song, set in the 9th century.

Rosemary Sutcliff was born in East Clandon, Surrey.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a vineyard at East Clandon -- said establishment going by the name of High Clandon. There is another vineyard near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire -- "pushing it", I'd have thought, for that activity as regards how-far-north; but one must take it, that they manage; no doubt global warming will help.

 

[Hamma52]

The nearby RAF Driffield became an important Air Force base in World War 2, being strategically located on the East Coast. As a result, it was targeted frequently by the Luftwaffe, and was the site of the very first WAAF (Women's Air Force) casualty during World War 2.

Another crucially important RAF base in the second world war was RAF Northolt - one of the chief bases involved in the Battle of Britain and providing air support for D-Day. The base can be found in South Ruislip, Greater London.

 

[John Griffiths]

Singer-songwriter Edwina Hayes lives in Driffield. She was born in Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another crucially important RAF base in the second world war was RAF Northolt - one of the chief bases involved in the Battle of Britain and providing air support for D-Day. The base can be found in South Ruislip, Greater London.

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.

 

[High Dyke]

Scholar Green in Cheshire is also on the route of the Macclesfield Canal.

And a pleasant walk from Kidsgrove - Marple it is.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hoole in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Hamma52]

Bootham, North Yorkshire, is also a recognised suburb of a Roman city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saffron Walden in Essex is another settlement where the Society of Friends established a school.

 

[Calthrop]

I have a great liking for the Daisy Dalrymple series of murder mysteries, by Carola Dunn; set in the mid-1920s. The action of one of these takes place in Saffron Walden -- its setting indeed, the abovementioned school. The doings in another of the books, are set at a stately home near Ogbourne St. George, Wiltshire -- three miles north of Marlborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winterbourne Monkton in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Selkley.

 

[Calthrop]

Winterbourne Monkton has an almost-namesake some seventy miles to its south-west, in the neighboring county of Dorset: Winterborne Monkton, just south of Dorchester.

 

[High Dyke]

Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan also has an ancient hill fort in its locality.

 

[Calthrop]

Dinas Powys has waxed-and-waned "in tandem with" St. Andrews Major, Vale of Glamorgan: about a mile to its west. At the present time, Dinas Powys would seem to be in the ascendant; and St. A. M., a fairly obscure hamlet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Benllech in Anglesey also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.