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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drewsteignton in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Tetragon213]

Windsor also hosts a Grade 1 castle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester in Hampshire also had a medieval-period leper hospital.

 

[Tetragon213]

Salisbury also hosts a noteworthy cathedral

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford in West Yorkshire also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[High Dyke]

Nottingham also hosts a Mela.

The word mela is Sanskrit for 'a gathering' or 'to meet'. In the UK, melas provide an opportunity for communities to come together to celebrate and share their cultures.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kings Bromley in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[Calthrop]

Nottingham also hosts a Mela.

The word mela is Sanskrit for 'a gathering' or 'to meet'. In the UK, melas provide an opportunity for communities to come together to celebrate and share their cultures.

If one of these is held at Chester: is it called the Mela of the Dee? (Sorry ...)

Kings Bromley in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

Earl Leofric, not a nice chap -- the husband of the virtuous and charitable Lady Godiva -- died at Kings Bromley in 1057. The location of the celebrated episode concerning this pair, enshrined in the annals, is of course Coventry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford also has an elephant in its Coat of Arms.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lydd (Kent) also hosts a """London""" (emphasis intended) airport which doesn't really serve London.

(Oxford is home to """London""" Oxford Airport, which is about 37 miles away from the closest border of Great London. Meanwhile, """London""" Ashford is about 44 miles away!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snargate in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Romney Marsh Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Snargate's curate, and then vicar, 1813 -- 24: was R.H. Barham (1788 -- 1845) -- Anglican clergyman, novelist, and humorous poet -- his chief renown is in the last-named role, for his Ingoldsby Legends: "comic and curious" narrative verse. One of his many such Legends, is the ballad of Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsbury -- a very long, comic-cum-horrific, verse epic: re (based on fact) medieval doings in that town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford was similarly affected by an outbreak of Sweating Sickness in medieval times.

 

[High Dyke]

Claydon, Oxfordshire is also on the route of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Claydon is the northernmost settlement in Oxfordshire. The county's southernmost would seem to be Playhatch, a little way north-east of Reading.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sonning in Berkshire also lies on the route of the B478 road.

 

[Tetragon213]

Staines-upon-Thames also lies on the Thames

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stains-upon-Thames also lies on the Thames

I cannot trace such a settlement named as that shown above.

 

[D6130]

I cannot trace such a settlement named as that shown above.

Obviously a typo for Staines I would think.

 

[Tetragon213]

Dropped an E, typo corrected

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Laleham in the Borough of Spelthorne was also once under the jurisdiction of the Staines Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

St Peter's Church, Lampeter, Wales also contains a memorial window designed by Wilhelmina Geddes.

 

[Calthrop]

In past centuries, Lampeter was a place of importance on the system of drovers' roads via which livestock was conveyed from Wales into England, particularly London. Another important point on same, much further east, was Buckingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tingewick in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Buckingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Effectively, repeating (if in reverse) a post of mine from exactly a year ago: am always struck by the similarity of the names of Tingewick; and Tingrith, Bedfordshire -- about twenty miles due east of the other T-settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battlesden in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manshead.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheating a little bit: Battlesden's church is dedicated to St. Peter and All Saints. Hutton, Essex -- near Brentwood -- has two churches: "related" and "under one operator" (please forgive my deficient grasp of "ecclesi-speak") -- St. Peter's, and All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingrave in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billericay Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

Brentwood also lies on the A128

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rainham in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury.