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Alloa also lies on the River Forth.
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Alloway, South Ayrshire, both looks / sounds rather similar to Alloa; and has also "witch-type" associations. There was a long period of rather ugly persecution of suspected witches in the Alloa area, around the 17th century; whereas -- light-heartedly in comparison -- Alloway's "Auld Kirk", supposedly haunted and witch-frequented, features thus in Robert Burns's poem Tam O' Shanter.
Tetragon213
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Robert Burns (the poet) was born in Alloway. He died in Dumfries
D6130
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Brighouse in West Yorkshire also has a Wetherspoons pub which was converted from a former Methodist church.
John Griffiths
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Jesse Ramsden, the designer of scientific and surveying instruments that facilitated accurate cartography, was born in Salterhebble in 1735 and died in Brighton in 1800.
D6130
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Bristol also has a Green Party MP.
Tetragon213
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Plymouth also has a notable IK Brunel bridge
Cryptic-crossword clues re settlement names, which I've seen -- cleverly succinct, or ghastly: can't quite decide which -- for Plymouth: "Feed" (to do which, you ply your mouth); and for Potters Bar, Hertfordshire: "Prize for best parrot" ("best parrot" and "Potters Bar" are anagrams of each other; if you do the anagram successfully, you win the "prize" of getting the right answer).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Falmouth in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to King Charles the Martyr.
Falmouth was involved in the dramatic saga of the cargo ship Flying Enterprise which, on voyage from Europe to the USA at the turn of the years 1951 / 52, was damaged by bad weather in the English Channel; and despite attempts at salvage involving endeavours to tow her into Falmouth; sank near the western end of the Channel. There was some controversy concerning the perhaps greater suitability of Cork -- being closer to the events -- as a port to which to try to tow the stricken ship. (There is a pub in Cork called, in commemoration of the events, the Flying Enterprise.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Adare in County Limerick also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Tetragon213
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Dingwall's Gaelic name shares the same etymological origin (Inverness from Inbhir Nis, "Mouth of the River Ness. Dingwall was Inbhir Pheofharain, "Mouth of the River Peffery")
Xenophon PCDGS
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Little Budworth in Cheshire West & Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northwich Poor Law Union.
Tetragon213
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Astbury (Cheshire East) is also home to a Egerton Arms
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chichester in West Sussex also has a place of worship the has its church tower situated away from the body of the church building.
High Dyke
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The River Lavant flowing through Chichester is a winterbourne. A winterbourne is a stream or river that is dry during the summer months, a special case of an intermittent stream. Winterbourne is a British term derived from the Old English winterburna ("winter stream").
Winterbournes occasionally give their name to settlements. Many of the United Kingdom's 'Winterbournes' are villages in Dorset, such as Winterborne Zelston.
Winterbournes occasionally give their name to settlements. Many of the United Kingdom's 'Winterbournes' are villages in Dorset, such as Winterborne Zelston.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tarrant Gunville in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Blandford Poor Law Union.
Thomas Wedgwood (1771 -- 1805), a pioneer of photography in its earliest infancy -- a son of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the Wedgwood pottery company: lived in his last years, very near Tarrant Gunville. He was born in Etruria, Staffordshire.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Froghall in Staffordshire was also served by the Caldon Canal.
D6130
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Cheddleton in Staffordshire is also situated on the line if the River Churnet.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Caverswall in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cheadle Poor Law Union.
Between 1974 and 1988, Caverswall was in the civil parish of Caverswall and Werrington: the latter village being a few miles to the north of Caverswall. In Cambridgeshire there is another Werrington: that one better-known to me at first hand -- it is now a northerly suburb of Peterborough. (Also of rail significance: viz. Werrington Junction, where the route to Spalding and formerly north therefrom, diverges from the East Coast main line; and Werrington water-troughs.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Much Hadham in Hertfordshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (c.1430 -- 1456) was born at Much Hadham: at its grandiosely-titled manor house, Much Hadham Palace. He died at Carmarthen Castle -- not before begetting the future King Henry VII (to me, "worse luck").
Xenophon PCDGS
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Inverness also has a rowing club.
Tetragon213
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Greenock is also on the mouth of a major Scotish river
Not being very well-acquainted with Clydeside: I always tend to confuse Greenock, and the rather similarly-named Gourock, a couple of miles to its west. The latter has essentially been a holiday resort; the former, a more "workaday" community.