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[Calthrop]

The "Thornham" to which I put forward is a very small settlement but has quite a good cricket ground upon which I once played in a charity fixture at the age of 15 and scored 11 runs.

As I am sometimes tempted to say: Please explain to me -- what is this "cricket" by which you Earthlings seem to set such great store ?

Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

Gorleston-on-Sea has a model boat pond. Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has an installation in that genre; but as I think all would concur, a much bigger and better one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire also has a cliff lift.

 

[Tetragon213]

Brighton also has a Grade II listed pier

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malvern in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.

 

[Bradford PA]

Malvern in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.

Malvern is a spa town with a brand of mineral water as is Buxton, Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lewes in East Sussex also has an Opera House within its environs.

 

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[Tetragon213]

Falmer also lies on the A27

 

[Calthrop]

Chorley, Lancashire, also has a church dedicated to St. Laurence (I have the impression -- perhaps mistaken; hagiography not my thing -- that in dedications to that saint, the "w" spelling is more common).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heskin in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chorley Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Heskin Hall has its ghost story, Pluckley (Kent), reputed to be one of the most haunted villages in the UK

 

[High Dyke]

Wennington Hall near Wetherby, Yorkshire was also used for filming the TV series Darling Buds Of May.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract in West Yorkshire also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Francis Drake (1696 -- 1771), antiquary and surgeon, was born in Pontefract. A far more famous namesake of his, a century-plus further back in history -- the naval gent -- was born in Tavistock, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrushelton in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tavistock Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

Modbury also has a St George's Church

 

[150249]

Edgehill in Warwickshire also saw a battle during the English Civil War in 1642

 

[Calthrop]

Edgehill has a Castle Inn -- "a eccentric building of local Hornton Stone", including an Octagonal Tower. Castle Donington, Leicestershire, also has a Castle Inn -- not particularly eccentric, as far as we know.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Diseworth in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Shardlow Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Per Wiki, "the famous astrologer and occultist" William Lilly (1602 -- 81) -- I'd never heard of him before this moment -- was born in Diseworth. He died in Hersham, Surrey (near Walton-on-Thames).

 

[D6130]

Leatherhead in Surrey is also situated on the River Mole.

 

[Calthrop]

Mel Giedroyc -- TV presenter, actress, comedian, and author -- grew up in Leatherhead. With her fellow-humorist Sue Perkins (born in Croydon, South London), she was for a while, on the presentation team of the TV programme The Great British Bake-Off. (Many seem to opine, that Mel G. is pretty awful at all of her occupations / avocations; I've always found her rather sweet.)

 

[High Dyke]

The long closed Croydon airport features in the Goon Show episode 'Wings over Dagenham', first broadcast on Thursday 10 January 1957 on the BBC Home Service.

 

[Calthrop]

Holt, Wiltshire -- near Bradford-on-Avon -- also has a pub called the Tollgate.

 

[High Dyke]

From about 1001 AD, Holt was a tithing in the manor of Bradford, given by Æthelred the Unready to the Abbess of Shaftesbury, Dorset

 

[DerekC]

Gold Hill in Shaftesbury was featured in a well known (in 1973 anyway) TV advertisement for Hovis ("don't say brown - say...."). Hovis was first produced in Macclesfield in 1886.

 

[341o2]

Birstall, Yorkshire, also has a canal, which featured in Tom Rolt's Hold on a Minute, an account of when Britain's waterways saw commercial use. On reaching that location, the barge had developed a fuel leak

 

[Calthrop]

The polymath Joseph Priestley (1733 -- 1804) -- among sundry other things, theologian and "natural philosopher" (he is credited with the discovery of oxygen) was born in Birstall. As a young man, he fell out over a theological matter with his hitherto home church, the Independent Upper Chapel of Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Arthur Henry Wood (24 January 1875 – 18 January 1953) was an English composer and conductor, particularly famous for "Barwick Green", the signature theme for the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. Wood was born in Heckmondwike.

Inkberrow in Worcestershire is often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the fictional setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series The Archers.

 

[341o2]

Inkberrow used to be within the boundaries of Feckingham Forest, one of the Royal Parks, which has now disappeared. The village of Feckingham was in the cemtre of the Royal Park