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Northallerton in North Yorkshire also has a pub called the Royal Standard.

 

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Denbigh in Denbighshire was also chosen as a historical location in which to establish a Carmelite Priory.

 

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Robert Dudley (1532 -- 1588), 1st Earl of Leicester -- sometimes attributed as Elizabeth I's boyfriend -- was also known as Baron of Denbigh.

 

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Footballer Emile Heskey was born in Leicester and ended his playing career in Bolton.

 

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Yeovil in Somerset also has an Octagon Theatre

 

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Yeovil is fictionally featured under the name of "Blacksod", in the 1929 novel by John Cowper Powys titled Wolf Solent (nothing to do either with wild canines which run in packs, or bodies of water in the south of England). Powys died, aged 90, in 1963 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.

 

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Llanberis in Gwynedd also has historical connections to the quarrying of slate.

 

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Llanberis was the birthplace of Thomas Rowland Hughes (1903 -- 49) -- novelist, broadcaster, dramatist and poet. Not to be confused with Thomas Hughes, fl. approximately a century previously: who wrote Tom Brown's Schooldays -- about the Public School of Rugby circa the 1830s -- creating in the process, the villain Harry Flashman; who much later became a fiction-protagonist in his own right -- for me, a lot more fun than boring goody-goody Tom Brown .

 

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Rugby gave its name to rugby football and the Norfolk village of Worstead gave its name to Worsted cloth.

 

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Neatishead in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Tunstead.

 

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It is suggested that Neatishead's name derives from its being named from, in Anglo-Saxon times, "Snaet's household". One envisages the invading Normans taking off the initial "s" -- as with Nottingham, name previously commemorating its founder the chieftain called approximately "Snot" -- not because the Normans found the Saxons coarse (though they probably did) -- just because they had trouble pronouncing "sn".

 

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Edinburgh also has a modern tramway system.

 

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Peterborough is also twinned with a settlement in Spain. Edinburgh's "twin" is Segovia; Peterborough's is Alcala de Henares.

 

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Peterborough was the heart of the 'Soke of Peterborough'. Soke is a somewhat archaic term indicating jurisdiction. A derivation lives on in a few place names such as Thorpe-le-soken.

 

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The prolific writer Arnold Bennett (1867 -- 1931) -- best-known for his novels about the Potteries area in Staffordshire where he was born, in Hanley; lived for a number of years in Thorpe-le-Soken.

 

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Shelton in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stoke-upon-Trent Poor Law Union.

 

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Wolstanton, Staffordshire -- near Newcastle-under-Lyme -- also lies on the Roman road route Rykeneld Street.

 

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Goldenhill in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union.

 

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Goldenhill in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union.

Cheating a little bit; the above-bolded settlement is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. Since that survey did not include the counties of Durham and Northumberland: one takes it that nor is (taking a settlement at random) Alnwick, Northumberland.

 

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Glenfinnan in Skye & Lochaber, Scotland, is another settlement associated with the filming of Harry Potter movies.

 

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It was at Glenfinnan that Charles Stuart -- Prince, or Pretender, depending on one's allegiance -- raised his standard, initiating the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Of more sombre fame in that historical episode is Culloden, Highland -- a little way south-east of Inverness.

 

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Ardersier in Scottish Highland also lies on the route of the B9006 road.

 

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Whiteshill, Gloucestershire -- just north of Stroud -- also has a pub called the Star.

 

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Sudgrove in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bisley.

 

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Sudgrove is tiny and so has no pub. A much larger place with no pub is Bournville in the West Midlands.

 

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Durham also has a Centre for Visual Arts.

 

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Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Durham's "twin" is Tuebingen; Ellesmere Port's is Reutlingen.

 

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Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire is also the location of a waterways museum.

 

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Braunston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

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Over the canal at Braunston there is a pair of footbridges built by the Horseley Ironworks from Tipton.