Tetragon213
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A ferry service links Gourock with Hunters Quay
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High Dyke
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Falmouth, Cornwall also has a maritime museum.
D6130
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Dinton, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, also has a pub named the Seven Stars.
Tetragon213
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Motcombe (N. Dorset) is also conspicuously not served by the line which bypasses it.
DerekC
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Girton College, the first women's college to be recognised as part of Cambridge University, was originally founded at Hitchin, but moved to Cambridge shortly afterwards.
Tetragon213
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Southampton also has city status without a cahtedral.
High Dyke
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Southampton water is a ria. A ria is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley that remains open to the sea. Another location is Pembroke Dock, situated in the Milford Haven Waterway.
An interesting-sounding chap who died at Pembroke Dock: was Geoffrey Theodore Garratt, 1888 -- 1942 (one takes it, no relation to Herbert G. of articulated-loco fame 
) -- farmer, journalist, author, and Labour political activist, and Army officer in the World Wars; born at Little Tew, Oxfordshire (a few miles east of Chipping Norton). In World War II, Garratt was in the Pioneer Corps, with the rank of major; killed in an explosion involving a barracks at Pembroke Dock.
) -- farmer, journalist, author, and Labour political activist, and Army officer in the World Wars; born at Little Tew, Oxfordshire (a few miles east of Chipping Norton). In World War II, Garratt was in the Pioneer Corps, with the rank of major; killed in an explosion involving a barracks at Pembroke Dock.
High Dyke
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Latteridge, a hamlet in South Gloucestershire, also has an ancient drover's road through its locality.
John Griffiths
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Rudgeway has a pub called the Masons Arms, as does Dinnington, Tyne and Wear.
High Dyke
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On 1 April 1876, a 23-years-old miner, George Hunter, was hanged for murder at Morpeth Goal. Hunter and his victim, William Wood, both worked at Dinnington Colliery. The subsequent execution carried out by William Marwood.
William Marwood was a British state hangman. He developed the technique of hanging known as the "long drop". Marwood was born in 1818 in the village of Goulceby, Lincolnshire.
William Marwood was a British state hangman. He developed the technique of hanging known as the "long drop". Marwood was born in 1818 in the village of Goulceby, Lincolnshire.
Tetragon213
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Somersby (Lincs) is also in the Lincolnshire Wolds
D6130
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The great Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby in 1809. He died at Lurgashall, West Sussex in 1892.
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Tetragon213
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Gospel Oak also was the target of John Betjeman's ire
"Glad that I did not live in Gospel Oak"
"Come friendly bombs"
"Glad that I did not live in Gospel Oak"
"Come friendly bombs"
A long-term resident of Gospel Oak, with some acclaim locally, is Michael Palin. Unkindly and unfairly, I know -- I am weird in holding an intense loathing of Monty Python and almost everything to do with it: which ruins Mr. Palin for me, and puts me off his many other "works" of various kinds, which I "perceive with my head" can, objectively, be agreeable and interesting. Like most other perpetrators of Python, Michael Palin was a pupil at Shrewsbury School.
DerekC
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The Shrewsbury Hoard, discovered in 2009, consisted of 9,315 bronze Roman coins. Similar but not quite so large was the hoard of 7,563 coins found in 2013 at South Petherton in Somerset.
Wiki tells us that in the 17th century, South Petherton was one of this country's main centres of bronze cauldron and skillet production -- its wares of this kind, were in demand all over the UK. Another settlement with a specialised trade in times past was (I used this in this game a few years ago; but find it a fun fact, if a rather gruesome one) Wednesfield, West Midlands: England's premier place for the manufacture of mantraps.
John Griffiths
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Wensley in North Yorkshire also takes its name from the Norse god Woden.
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D6130
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Northumberland Yorkshire?
John Griffiths
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Sorry, forgot to keep an eye on the predictive text. It should be North Yorkshire. Have edited.
D6130
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I guessed that....but couldn't help myself from pointing it out.
Sorry!
High Dyke
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Blatherwycke in Northamptonshire also has a Holy Trinity Church now preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust.
Mary Jane Kinnaird nee Hoare (1816 -- 88), founder of the YWCA, was born in Blatherwycke. She married Arthur, Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, Perth and Kinross. (Oddly enough, he was a supporter of the movement for women's suffrage, but she wasn't.)
Tetragon213
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Inchture's postal town is Perth
D6130
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Aberfeldy is also situated on the River Tay.