Xenophon PCDGS
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Homersfield in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Wangford.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Meriden in West Midlands also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Heart of England Way.
DerekC
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Meriden's claim to be the centre of England is usually accepted. The centre of Great Britain is, however, disputed between Haltwhistle in Northumberland and a point 7 miles north west of the village of Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire. I pick the former for highlighting on the entirely illogical grounds that I have been there!
High Dyke
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Hepple in rural Northumberland also has an example of a surviving Bastle house.
They are fortified farmhouses, characterised by security measures against raids. Their name is said to derive from the French word "bastille".
They are fortified farmhouses, characterised by security measures against raids. Their name is said to derive from the French word "bastille".
Hepple lay on the World War II Coquet Stop Line -- line of fairly rudimentary fortifications running from Amble, Northumberland, westward up the River Coquet valley: purpose, to impede Fritz's advance if he landed in Scotland and came southward.
Not a "post post", just conversation -- I find myself sceptical of all and any claims by places, to be the centre of their geographical unit ! Not learned scholarship on my part; just a feeling generated by there being so many of such, often rival, claims: with a profusion of what often seems like pseudo-scientific "blah" to justify them. Haltwhistle does such, in its making out that it's the centre of the UK, including Northern Ireland. What's the betting that before the partitioning of Ireland in 1921, Haltwhistle put forward a different load of tosh to "prove" that it was the geographical centre of the British Isles, including the whole of Ireland
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Durham also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.
One of my "defaults" -- Durham has a namesake settlement in Canada: in that odd bit of the province of Ontario which sticks out -- southward of some of the US -- between various Great Lakes. Just a little way east of this Canadian Durham, is a namesake of Dundalk, Co. Louth.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilcurry in County Louth also lies on the line of the Castletown River.
We learn from Wiki that Kilcurry is reckoned to be the 393rd largest of that especially Irish thing the "townland", in its county; and the 38,512nd largest nationwide. (How's that for abstruse statistics?) The actual settlement Louth, after which the county is named (it isn't the county town -- that is Dundalk) is definitely not the county's biggest settlement: that would appear to be either Dundalk, or Drogheda -- "gen" about that, seems confusing.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Glin in County Limerick also has a church named Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Shannonbridge in County Offaly also has a church that is dedicated to St Ciaran.
There is near Shannonbridge, a crossing-point of the River Shannon, famed in "lore and legend immemorial", called Snamh Da Ean -- English version, "Swim Two Birds". The name shows up in the title -- At Swim-Two-Birds -- of one of the comic-and-satirical novels by the author, satirist and humorist Brian O'Nolan (1911 -- 66); who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, including Flann O'Brien and Myles na Gopaleen. O'Nolan was born in Strabane, Co. Tyrone.
D6130
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Strabane lies on the opposite side of the River Foyle from Lifford, the Country Town of Co. Donegal, in the Irish Republic.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Dumbarton in West Dumbartonshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.
D6130
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Singer-songwriter and musician Amy Winehouse was found dead in her flat in Camden. She was born in Enfield, Middlesex....now part of Greater London.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Shifnal in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
High Dyke
Established Member
Bristol was also involved in a Victorian era banking scandal.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bonaventure.
PrincesWinsdor
On Moderation
Hatfield also became a new town under the New Towns Acts 1946.
The future Queen Elizabeth I spent some three years in confinement at Hatfield House -- the seat of the noble Cecil family -- during the reign of her half-sister Mary; the two were not in accord, for obvious reasons. A slightly earlier Tudor Royal who endured times "in the doghouse" -- Catherine of Aragon -- was banished to, and "kept close in" various locations: one of them being Buckden Towers at Buckden, Cambridgeshire -- a little way south-west of Huntingdon.
PrincesWinsdor
On Moderation
The River Wharfe also passes through
Kettlewell.
Respectfully: the Buckden of my post is -- as indicated there -- in Cambridgeshire. It looks as though you've taken England's other Buckden, in North Yorkshire. Association needs to be made, with the Cambridgeshire Buckden.
PrincesWinsdor
On Moderation
Oops, my fault
Tetragon213
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Sandy is also on the route of the A1
St. Helens, Merseyside, also has a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of Oregon. (Sandy, Oregon, has nothing to do with the place on the A1 -- it is called after the Sandy River, on which it lies. Don't know about "their" St. Helens.)
PrincesWinsdor
On Moderation
Ironbridge also became significant during the Industrial Revolution.