DerekC
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Directly opposite Rosneath on the other side of the Gareloch but only 600 metres away at the closest point is the village of Rhu, Argyll & Bute.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Craobh Haven in Argyll & Bute also has a marina.
Craobh Haven is a purpose-built holiday-resort-and-marina "village", of fairly recent date -- instituted 1983. One might reckon as as cognate, to some extent, the Bay Filey Resort holiday housing development at Filey, North Yorkshire -- on the site of something far less up-market: viz. the former Filey Butlin's Holiday Camp.
High Dyke
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Filey is at the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail which starts at Hessle in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bournemouth in Dorset also has a symphony orchestra.
I have a weakness for bad poets -- feel that cannot but mention here "the Bard of Bournemouth", Cumberland Clark (1862 -- 1941), long-time resident of Bournemouth after an adventurous and roving youth; and regarded by many, as the second-worst poet in the English language (many competitors, I'd think, for that doubtful honour): the acknowledged worst being, of course, William McGonagall of Dundee. Clark (also a would-be Shakespeare scholar) had as a frequent theme, lauding excellent things about Bournemouth. From samples of his output, he strikes me as in fact, noticeably a cut above McGonagall -- unlike the Scottish gent, he actually understood about metre; and he appears to me to show signs of a sense of humour, and even occasional self-mockery: things of which no-one could accuse old William.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Belfast is another settlement noted for its connection to the manufacture of linen.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Babbs Green in Hertfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ware Poor Law Union.
High Dyke
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Montrose in Angus was also the location of a lunatic asylum.
clickaway
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Like Montrose, Henlow in Bedfordshire also has a rare Hawker Hunter Mk.1 on display.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
D6130
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Skipton in North Yorkshire also has a weekly livestock market.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brierfield in Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lidsing in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Medway Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingsbridge.
Petersfield, Hampshire, also has -- unsurprisingly, one feels -- a church dedicated to St. Peter.
I find the mention of the Hundred of Kingsbridge interesting; for matters to do with a fictional settlement ! There is a sequence of historical novels by Ken Follett -- to my taste, quite good, if a bit "overstuffed" -- set in a smallish cathedral city of his invention; which he calls Kingsbridge. It's neither of the two real settlements of that name in England -- the town in South Devon, and a tiny village in Somerset, on Exmoor. Follett's Kingsbridge would seem, from its location per the books -- deliberately made not-too-precise; it's clearly a thing of the author's own, not a recognisable fictional version of a real city -- to be somewhere in Thomas Hardy's "Wessex", the more central parts thereof: Dorset / Hampshire / Wiltshire / east Somerset. The mentioned Hundred of Kingsbridge -- hitherto unknown to me -- being located in the region in which it is (with there being seemingly no actual settlement of the name, in the area of the Hundred): has me wondering whether it was Follett's inspiration for what to call the city of his novels?
Xenophon PCDGS
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Blendworth in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Finchdean.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fitzwilliam in West Yorkshire also has historical connections to coal mining.
High Dyke
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Denby Dale was also in the Wapentake of Staincross.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Huddersfield in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Observed possible tendency with authors of fictional works, in quest of fictional name for ditto gritty-and-sometimes-grim West Yorkshire city in which to set their tales: to "couple and conflate" the names of Huddersfield and Bradford. J.B. Priestley (earlier 20th century) has Bruddersford; Val McDermid (present day) has Bradfield.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Salisbury in Wiltshire also hosts an annual literary festival.
D6130
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Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in these islands. The second tallest is that of St Walburge's RC church in Preston, Lancashire.