Tetragon213
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Liverpool has a longstanding historical rivalry with Manchester
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D6130
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Manchester is connected by the Manchester Ship Canal to the River Mersey at Eastham locks.
Hamma52
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Danby Wiske, North Yorkshire, is another settlement that uses a postcode from a town in a different county to that of its own.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Middeton Tyas in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Gilling East Wapentake.
Hamma52
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Middleton Tyas' name always intrigued me. The "Middleton" bit; fairly standard - of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning "Middle Farm" or "Middle settlement". The "Tyas" bit on the other hand, a bit more unusual.
It's believed to be the name of a Norman estate owner in the area, but nothing can be categorically proven.
Another village who's etymological origins lie in both the Saxon and Norman periods is Fisherton de la Mere, Wiltshire.
It's believed to be the name of a Norman estate owner in the area, but nothing can be categorically proven.
Another village who's etymological origins lie in both the Saxon and Norman periods is Fisherton de la Mere, Wiltshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wilton in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Wylye.
D6130
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Axminster in Devon was also a noted centre for the manufacture of carpets
150249
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Axminster overlooks the River Axe. This river's source is located near Chedington in Dorset.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bradpole in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Beaminster Forum & Redhone.
150249
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Charles II passed through Bradpole following his defeat in the Battle of Worcester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunhampstead in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
150249
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Dunhampstead's village pub closed down in 2019. It was called The Fir Tree Inn. Another pub with the same name remains open in Woburn Sands.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Coppenhall in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.
Hamma52
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Coppenhall gives its name to the nearby Coppenhall Gorse - a medieval fortified manor of which the moat can still be seen today.
In a similar manor (see what I did there!), the surviving moat of what was a medieval fortified house can also be seen near Caxton, Cambridgeshire.
In a similar manor (see what I did there!), the surviving moat of what was a medieval fortified house can also be seen near Caxton, Cambridgeshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Eltisley in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Longstow.
Hamma52
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Edenham, Lincolnshire, also has a Peterborough postcode.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Swinstead in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Beltisloe Wapentake.
Swinstead is "confusable" with Swineshead, Lincolnshire -- some 25 miles to its north-east. This confusion has afflicted no less a person than Shakespeare himself. King John, shortly before his death, historically stayed briefly at Swineshead Abbey: Shakespeare mentions this in his play about said monarch; but sets the abbey concerned, at Swinstead (which has never had one). He compounds the error by, in the play, referring to the place as "Swinsted"; but they were casual about spelling in the 16th century -- as is well known, Shakey couldn't even spell his own name consistently 
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Hamma52
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I always like places with a duck pond. Swineshead has one! So too does Heacham, Norfolk
Enlisting the help of my old chum Henry Williamson -- prolific author (probably most famous for Tarka the Otter) and in general, engagingly awkward cuss -- in his "thinly-disguised-autobiographical" novel cycle, Williamson has his hero (obviously himself) farming in the era bracketing World War II, in north Norfolk; as indeed Williamson himself did. In the novels, his farm is near "Great Wordingham" -- clearly, the real Great Walsingham, Norfolk; and they occasionally feature what is obviously -- disguised -- Heacham. The hero has, now and again, business in London; which he reaches by rail from his Norfolk abode -- until the 1952 closure of the Heacham to Wells-next-the-Sea line -- via Heacham =, per the books, "Bungaloid Junction": it would seem that Williamson found distasteful, even a lifetime ago, ugly and widespread residence-development in the area.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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King's Lynn in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation.
Hamma52
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Let's bring out one of the old "makes you smile" places with Westward Ho!, Devon, as another settlement that has a punctuation mark in the official name of the town. (It's been a while since this favourite of the game has appeared)
Tetragon213
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Kingswear (Devon) is also on the Rive Dart
Hamma52
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Have you ever seen auch a punctous name as Westward Ho!'s?Totnes, also in Devon, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Calvados. Westward Ho! 's "twin" is Mondeville; Totnes's [punctuation-confusion all over the place just now], is Vire.
Totnes spelt backwards is Sentot, which is actually a popular Indonesian name, originally Javanese. The most "well known" Sentot would be Sentot Prawirodirdjo, a young commander who faught in the Javanese War.
Much of his early life was spent in the British controlled Java, which was governed by the very grandly named Thomas Stamford Raffles from modern day Bengkulu, where Prawirodirdjo happens to be buried. Raffles himself was buried in Hendon, Greater London.
Ahh rats...
More "whodunnit-stuff-and..." from me -- one of my favourite authors in the genre, Kate Ellis: has written a long series of such, involving the CID in a thinly-disguised area of South Devon -- centring on the towns of "Tradmouth" [Dartmouth] and "Queenswear" [Kingswear]. Another, less-acclaimed but also liked by me, series in said genre by this lady: is about a reflective -- and a rather tormented soul -- detecting-person named Joe Plantagenet, who operates in York.
Consider yourself to have had a lucky escape, from stuff-and-nonsense from me; especially about Indonesian gents (I'd had no idea that we ever owned Java).
Our Westward Ho! is not absolutely the world's only place-name-with-exclamation-mark: Quebec, Canada, has Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! ; and there has at least been in the past -- don't know whether it still obtains -- a halt on the Durango -- Silverton now "heritage" 3ft. gauge line in Colorado, at an idyllic lonesome spot -- halt called "Ah Wilderness!" .
Xenophon PCDGS
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Crayke in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.
Tetragon213
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Cawood (N Yorks) is also home to a Grade I listed castle
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Birkin in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston-Ash Wapentake.