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Sale in Greater Manchester also has an athletics club incorporating the word "harriers" in its title.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Singleton in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Lavant.
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Singleton is the location of the Weald & Download living museum. A similar museum - depicting life, agriculture, industry and buildings in the North-East of England is located at Beamish in Co. Durham.
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Crich in Derbyshire is also a location in which historic trams are operational.
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The museum and heritage centre at Amberley in West Sussex was also established on the site of a quarry.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wiggonholt in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of West Easwrith.
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Bridford in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Wonford.
As we know, I can't resist "twinnings"; especially when they involve places which one would think too small to engage in such doings. Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Calvados. Bridford's "twin" is St.-Vaast-sur-Seulles; Henley's is Falaise (notorious for 1944 events there; and as the birthplace of William the Conqueror).
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Killybegs in County Donegal also hosts an annual regatta.
There follows an episode which I used in this game a year ago -- story which resonates with me: I feel a bit sorry for the beaten Spanish Armada -- the ordinary personnel thereof, anyway (can afford to feel that way, with our having soundly thrashed 'em 
). it concerns one of those ships of that fleet -- this one the galleass La Girona -- which tried to head for home the long way round, going round the top of the British Isles, and thence into the Atlantic. La Girona, badly damaged, put into Killybegs harbour seeking shelter and succour; which she and her crew got from the local chieftain -- plainly glad to do what he could to thwart the Brits. Patched-up, the ship then set off initially back northward, aiming for Scotland and presumably, further help there -- rather than heading straight for Spain; one assumes that the decision made sense to those concerned. Going round the north of Ireland, the ship got into trouble and struck Lacada Point near Ballintoy, Co. Antrim (5 miles west of Ballycastle), with the loss of almost all hands. The very few survivors (in single figures), rescued by the locals: were with considerable care, sent by the local chief to Scotland; whence they could realistically expect ultimately to get back safely to Spain. It would certainly seem that Celtic high-ups in those times, were eager to make life difficult for John Bull in whatever ways -- however tiny -- came to hand for them.
). it concerns one of those ships of that fleet -- this one the galleass La Girona -- which tried to head for home the long way round, going round the top of the British Isles, and thence into the Atlantic. La Girona, badly damaged, put into Killybegs harbour seeking shelter and succour; which she and her crew got from the local chieftain -- plainly glad to do what he could to thwart the Brits. Patched-up, the ship then set off initially back northward, aiming for Scotland and presumably, further help there -- rather than heading straight for Spain; one assumes that the decision made sense to those concerned. Going round the north of Ireland, the ship got into trouble and struck Lacada Point near Ballintoy, Co. Antrim (5 miles west of Ballycastle), with the loss of almost all hands. The very few survivors (in single figures), rescued by the locals: were with considerable care, sent by the local chief to Scotland; whence they could realistically expect ultimately to get back safely to Spain. It would certainly seem that Celtic high-ups in those times, were eager to make life difficult for John Bull in whatever ways -- however tiny -- came to hand for them.
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Ballycastle in County Antrim also lies on the route of the B15 road.
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St Andrews in Fire, Scotland also has a Lammas Fair every Summer.
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Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Hurstpierpoint looks / sounds -- if one is not a place-name-derivation scholar -- as though it ought to be a settlement on the coast; but it isn't. The same might be said -- a bit feebly -- of Havenstreet, Isle of Wight. (The Sussex place owes its "...pierpoint" bit, to those wretched Normans.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sandwick in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.
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Leebitton in Shetland is also classified as a Tier 1 settlement.
Leebitton is the embarkation point for boats, for visitors, to the nearby uninhabited, wildlife-rich island of Mousa. The Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast -- also uninhabited and a great place for wildlife, especially birds -- are, correspondingly, reached by boat from Seahouses, Northumberland.
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Amble is another town in Northumberland where you can board a boat specifically to see wildlife such as seals and puffins in summer.
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Like Sprowston, there is a Blue Boar Lane in Rochester, Kent too.
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Aylesford in Kent also lies on the line of the River Medway.
I always find a bit comical, the county of Kent's having been divided historically, into administrative regions called "Lathes" (one thinks of the machine tool). The number of these varied from one period to another -- basically a "round half-dozen". One was the Lathe of Aylesford; another --to the south-east -- the Lathe of Lympne (later renamed, "of Shepway") -- Lympne being a little way west of Hythe.
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Aldington in Kent was also ince administered by the Hundred of Street.
Item of historic horribleness -- which however, with Wiki's tendency to rather comically solemn narrative, also comes out as slightly bonkers -- involving Aldington. Quoting "the oracle": "Elizabeth Barton, the 'Holy Maid of Kent', was born in [Aldington] in 1506. [Worked as a housemaid] but claimed that she had visions. She was provided a place in the convent at Canterbury and became a nun. Through some manipulation by Bishop John Fisher and Thomas More, she prophesied that Henry VIII would die a villain's death if he divorced Catherine of Aragon. She was beheaded in 1534." (Messrs. Fisher and More were given the same sticky end -- you didn't mess with our Hal if you knew what was good for you.)
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Lunanhead in Angus also once had a medieval period plague hospital.
A degree of desperation: if one were to be decidedly un-PC, the name "Lunanhead" might be seen to refer to people who were mentally not-totally-right. Association thus afforded, with the hamlet of Crazies Hill, Berkshire -- a couple of miles south-east of Henley-on-Thames.
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Ponsanooth in Cornwall also has a village hall.