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[Calthrop]

Loghorsley, Northumberland -- between Morpeth and Rothbury -- also has a pub called the Shoulder of Mutton.

 

[D6130]

Loghorsley, Northumberland -- between Morpeth and Rothbury -- also has a pub called the Shoulder of Mutton.

Presumably that should be Longhorsley?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Presumably that should be Longhorsley?

Prendwick in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rothbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Presumably that should be Longhorsley?

Sorry -- yes: typo.

Prendwick in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rothbury Poor Law Union.

Prendwick is in the civil parish of Alnham, Northumerland -- a couple of miles to its south-west.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alnwick in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Aln.

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Alnwick's "twin" is Voerde; Rochdale's is Bielefeld.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keyworth in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret Clitherow.

 

[Tetragon213]

West Bridgford is the administrative centre of the borough to which Keyworth belongs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrumpton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Church dedications again -- all I can find here ! Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Ouzel.

 

[D6130]

Oxford was also once home to a major sports car manufacturer.(Aston Martin in Newport Pagnell and MG in Oxford).

 

[Tetragon213]

Cambridge also hosts a world class University

 

[Calthrop]

Ely, Cambridgeshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Minnesota. (England's Ely and Cambridge are, of course, not far from each other; their Minnesotan counterparts are some 150 miles apart.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Witcham in Cambridgeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ely Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

The World Pea-Shooting Championships have taken place at Wicham since 1971. The World Conker Championships were first held in 1965 in Ashton, North Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appleton Thorn in the Borough of Warrington also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[John Griffiths]

Every June schoolchildren in Appleton Thorn 'bawm the thorn' - dancing around the decorated hawthorn tree, believed (ahem) to have grown from a cutting of the Glastonbury thorn, which itself grew from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading also hosts a noted large music festival.

 

[D6130]

Carlisle Is also noted for the manufacture of biscuits. (Carr's of Carlisle.... Huntley & Palmer's of Reading).

 

[John Griffiths]

York is also a city prone to flooding.

 

[D6130]

Chester is also surrounded by medieval - and partially Roman - walls.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh in East Lothian also has a racecourse.

 

[Tetragon213]

Southwark also once had a Rennie-designed bridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[D6130]

Birkenhead is linked to Liverpool by underwater road and rail tunnels and a ferry across the Mersey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Puddington in Cheshire West & Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wirral Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

Not to be onfused with the London borough of Paddington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[D6130]

Leek in Staffordshire was also once a noted centre for the manufacture of silk.