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Aberfeldy is the location of Wade's Bridge across the River Tay. The name refers to General George Wade, Commander in Chief of the army in Northern Britain from 1725 to 1737 and during the first part of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, being replaced by Prince William after he failed to prevent the rebel forces from entering England and allowed them to penetrate as far south as Derby. He was born in Killavally, County Westmeath.
 
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Killavally is an example of that Irish speciality the "townland"; a very small and scattered "quasi-village" out in the wilds, with very little re which to associate it or tell about. This particular townland lies about halfway between the "proper" settlements of Rochfortbridge, and Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath.
 
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Hurn Court is a Grade II listed manor house, formerly home to the Earls of Malmesbury.

The present family seat is Greywell Hill House, near Odiham, Hampshire.
 
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Brixham holds an annual Pirate Festival (month of May). From this year, Seaton, also in Devon, has inaugurated a Pirate Festival of its own. (Perhaps I'm a killjoy / misery; but I just don't "get" this very widespread glamorising of / obsession with, pirates: whom I perceive as having been, and being, mostly very nasty people.)
 
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Christmas carols named after particular places: there is the quite well-known Coventry Carol; and the perhaps less familiar -- it was anyway a new one on me -- Sussex Carol, "collected" by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1904 near Nuthurst, West Sussex -- three or four miles south of Horsham. (The Coventry Carol is actually a doleful ditty, about Herod's slaughter of the innocents. The people of Coventry have a long-standing reputation for contrariness -- if anyone were going to come up with a miserable Christmas carol, it would be them !)
 
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Devizes is home to the Caen Hill Flight of 29 locks on the Kennett & Avon Canal, a number exceeded only by the Tardebigge Flight of 30 locks on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, located near Tardebigge, Worcestershire. Although Tardebigge has the higher number of locks, the total rise of 67m is exceeded by Caen Hill's 72m.
 
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Near Belbroughton there is an erratic boulder deposited by a glacier, which has been demonstrated to have come from the mountain Arenig Fawr, near Bala, Gwynedd.
 
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Criccieth has a tennis club -- a venerable one, as such institutions go -- at which people of note in assorted walks of life, have played at one time or another. One such, was the author, playwright, broadcaster and social commentator J.B. Priestley (1894 -- 1984); who was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
 
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Quorn, Leicestershire, also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of South Australia. (South Aus.'s Salisbury is just north of Adelaide; its Quorn is a lot further north, and quite well-known in the railway-enthusiasm sphere.)
 
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The church of Peak Forest is dedicated to "Charles, King and Martyr" (our Charles I). Wiki tells us that said church was first erected in 1657 -- presumably not, then, with that dedicatee... Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has a church with the same dedication.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Quarndon in Derbyshire is also a settlement with chalybeate springs.
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Sir Henry Royce (1863 -- 1933), co-founder of Rolls-Royce: lived in Quarndon from 1908 to 1911. He was born in Alwalton, Cambridgeshire -- four or five miles south-west of Peterborough.

(For a long time in my childhood and youth -- having seen the word "chalybeate" in print, long before first hearing it spoken -- I mispronounced it mentally as "chaily-beet".)
 
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Bootle, Merseyside, also has a pub called the Addison Arms.

Is it now Huntingdonshire once again? -- I tend to get lost with county nomenclature -- or are you just "being traditional"? (I'm not nitpicking -- just interested.)
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Flixton in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Monica.
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England has several other Flixtons: one in North Yorkshire, near Scarborough; and two in Suffolk -- one of those admittedly not a proper settlement as such, just the name of a parish near Lowestoft. I'm going for the other Suffolk Flixton: a little way south-west of Bungay.

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I just tend to go off what the search engine says when I search for settlements.
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"No worries" -- I miss Huntingdonshire -- in the general region of my childhood and adolescence. For a time then, I lived in the short-lived county of Huntingdon and Peterborough...
 
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