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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

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Northwich Victoria won the FA Trophy for the 1983/1984 season beating the Welsh side
Bangor City
in the final after a replay.

 

[High Dyke]

There are twenty towns in England and Wales that were recognised as cities by "ancient prescriptive right"; none of these communities had been formally declared a city, but they had all used the title since "time immemorial" (legally defined as before 3 September 1189).

Alongside Bangor, another location is  Wells in Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[Calthrop]

Southport, as is well known, has a lawnmower museum. Tabley Inferior (honestly !), Cheshire -- near Knutsford -- has or had (it is rumoured now to be closed) the Cuckooland Museum, devoted chiefly to cuckoo clocks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lymm in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Bucklow.

 

[D6130]

Lower Bollington in Cheshire also lies on the Bridgwater Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Agden in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Altrincham Poor Law Únion.

 

[Bradford PA]

Agden in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Altrincham Poor Law Únion.

Agden was one of the smallest Civil Parishes in England. The largest settlement falling into this category is Northampton (population 137 000).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkcaldy in Fife also has a Gilbert and Sullivan society.

 

[Tetragon213]

Gordon Brown, who grew up in Kirkcaldy, was born in Giffnock

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Austell in Cornwall also has a tennis club.

 

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One of St Austell's most famous sons is actor John Nettles. He was born and educated in the town, but then went on to study at the university in
Southampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasgow also has a Sikh Gurdwara.

 

[Calthrop]

Mayfield, Staffordshire -- just west of Ashbourne -- also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Kentucky.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Butterton in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alstonfield Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

A bit of a "thing" of mine: Butterton is a "Thankful Village" -- one all of whose men who served in World War I, survived the war. Butterton is the only such settlement in Staffordshire. The same applies re Buckinghamshire, and Stoke Hammond -- between Milton Keynes and Leighton Buzzard. (Butterton, incidentally, had a station on the 2ft. 6in. gauge Leek & Manifold Valley Railway.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckfastleigh in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.

 

[Calthrop]

There would seem to be -- perhaps rival, perhaps complementary -- suggested info concerning Conan Doyle's getting inspiration via local tales of spectral, terrifying canines, for his The Hound of the Baskervilles: heard by Doyle while staying with friends at Buckfastleigh; and / or at Clyro, Powys (just west of Hay-on-Wye).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michaels and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Getting a bit far-fetched perhaps; but I feel somewhat fed-up with Brontes -- an interesting chap called Robert Shaw (born 1933, still apparently going strong) -- poet, jazzman, and satirist: lived for a longish while in the later 20th century, in Haworth. He published, satirically but affectionately telling of life there, a couple of works: The Wrath Valley Anthology and Grindley's Bairns. Shaw was also deeply involved, mid-century, with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: a place strongly associated with which is of course Aldermaston, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Úfton Nervet in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Theale.

 

[Calthrop]

This seems to be a day for "men of parts" -- description earned by the Rev. Henry Beeke (1751 -- 1837): described as "historian, theologian, writer on taxation and finance, and botanist"; who was for a spell, rector of Ufton Nervet. Wiki refers to him as the creator of income tax -- drat the man ! Beeke was born in Kingsteignton, Devon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kingsteigton has an annual ram-roasting festival, of dubious paganish origins. Another place that had such an annual event was (but no longer is) Holne, also in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loddiswell in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Stanborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Just north of Loddiswell is the South Devon Chilli Farm. A kind of parallel -- also in a southerly part of England -- can be seen in the Isle of Wight Garlic Farm: nearest settlement to which is Newchurch, I.O.W.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brill in Buckinghamshire also has a pub called 'The Pointer'.

 

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Like Brill. there is another windmill in Buckinghamshire that is open to the public on certain days and this is at
Pitstone.

 

[High Dyke]

Clipstone in Nottinghamshire is another location where the English parliament has been convened.

 

[Calthrop]

Clipstone in Nottinghamshire is another location where the English parliament has been convened.

I suspect that I'm going senile; I initially read "Northamptonshire" for Nottinghamshire, and felt sure that I knew Clipstone was in Northamptonshire -- maybe mental muddling with, in that county, Brixworth and/or Pitsford (resembling post #39,868's Pitstone). Having got right with Clipstone, indeed in Notttinghamshire -- that settlement has (genuinely) a pub with the favourite "cliche / meme" name of the Dog and Duck. The same is true of Bognor Regis, West Sussex.