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Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanynghenedl in Anglesey also lies of the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Anglesey Coastal Path.
Anglesey would seem to be rich in settlements with names beginning with "Llan...", liable to give English "Cymro-linguaphobes" a bad time. Another such, some seven miles north of Llanynghenedl, is Llanfairynghornwy -- a name which might have such folk thinking erroneously along "ethereal beings" lines...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanfwrog in Anglesey was also once adminisitered by the Hundred of Tal-y-Bolion.
Anglesey's Llanfwrog has a namesake settlement "on the mainland": Llanfwrog, Denbighshire (near Ruthin). The business -- to me anyway, entertaining -- of the Celtic countries and their many little-known saints: these are reckoned to be the only two places which are associated with the name of Saint Mwrog.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandyrnog in Denbighshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ruthin Poor Law Union.
High Dyke
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Aspatria in Cumbria is also home to a creamery.
Hamma52
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Watchet, Somerset, is also a place where Viking age historical artefacts were found, of which are now housed in the British Museum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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West Quantoxhead in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Williton and Fremanners.
Hamma52
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Although proper nouns are generally prohibited in the game, West Quantoxhead would be a particularly good word to play in Scrabble. So too would Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rufford in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
Tetragon213
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I got the wrong Rufford, apparently.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Rufford in Lancashire unfortunately lies many miles away from the route of the A614, which runs from Nottinghamshire into South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Tetragon213
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Struck through. It appears there are multiple Ruffords; I got the wrong one.
Southport also has a pub called the Hesketh Arms.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clevedon in North Somerset also has a marine lake.
I had what I thought was a wonderful one to follow on from Rufford, Lancs.; but, perhaps mercifully, I've been beaten to it.
Going on from Clevedon:
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Clevedon's "twin" is Ettlingen; Borehamwood's is Offenburg.
Going on from Clevedon:
Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Clevedon's "twin" is Ettlingen; Borehamwood's is Offenburg.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chapel en le Frith in Derbyshire also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St John Fisher and St Thomas More.
D6130
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Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands was also a major centre for the manufacture of motor vehicle tyres.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Curdworth in Warwickshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aston Poor Law Union.
High Dyke
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St Bart's church at Tong, Shropshire was another religious building damaged during the English Civil War.
As was the Church of St Nicholas and Peter Ad Vincula at Curdworth.
As was the Church of St Nicholas and Peter Ad Vincula at Curdworth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Oswald church in Ashbourne, Derbyshire also has a side chapel with tomb sculptures.
Tetragon213
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It is not to be confused with Ashbourne, County Meath
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ratoath in County Meath also lies on the line of the Broadmeadow River.
Ratoath is a place which is, and has long been, prominent on the horse-racing scene -- just outside the town is Fairyhouse Racecourse, where the Irish Grand National is held. Another Irish location with name referencing "the fair folk": is Ballynashee [in the Irish language, "place of the fairies"], Co. Antrim -- some way north of Ballyclare. (There's also a Ballynashee townland in Co. Sligo; but I'm going for the Antrim one -- it has 3ft. gauge associations 
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Tetragon213
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We did get the all-clear for vaguely rail-related links on this one, didn't we?
Strabane also once had a narrow-gauge through it.
Strabane also once had a narrow-gauge through it.
As per correspondence in posts #38,813 -- #38,818 ...
Strabane is a town which has long had more than its fair share of problems -- "economic" coupled with "political". We learn that at the height of N.I.'s later-20th-century "Troubles", Strabane also "came to have the dubious distinction of the highest unemployment rate in the industrial world". Another settlement which has suffered grievous woes at any rate on the economic front: is Millom, Cumbria -- for quite a while in the latter half of the 20th century, a rather desperate "unemployment black spot" owing to the closure of the local ironworks -- the town still not in a good economic situation.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ulpha in Cumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bootle Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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This well-phrased explanation has been remembered and referred to earlier today in a posting.
Tetragon213
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? Oddly enough -- one might even say, confusingly -- there is another Ulpha not at all far from the above-bolded one. I get thoroughly lost as to present-day status re what is Cumberland / Cumbria / other "permutations and combinations" -- at all events, "Ulpha No. 2", subject of this post: is some twenty miles south-south-east of "Ulpha No. 1" of the BPLU; and three to four miles north-east of Grange-over-Sands -- in what I'm given to understand is the Westmorland & Furness district of Cumbria. ?
ETA: I seem altogether to be in "elderly and confused" mode today. Didn't realise that I had actually posted this one -- thought had been forestalled at last moment by post #38,999. (@Tetragon213 -- please, why the striking-out? I see nothing wrong with your association in that post.)
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