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Salhouse, Norfolk --some 7 miles north-east of Norwich -- also has a pub called the Stag.

 

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Ingoldisthorpe in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

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Braintree, Essex, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

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Pattiswick in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Braintree Poor Law Union.

 

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Lucan, Co Dublin -- just a little way to the west of the capital -- also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

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Blessington in County Wicklow also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

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Chipstead, Surrey -- between Sutton and Redhill -- also has a pub called "The Ramblers' Rest".

 

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Burstow in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Reigate.

 

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Burstow's most renowned inhabitant is probably John Flamsteed (1646 -- 1719), the first Astronomer Royal; who was rector of Burstow 1684 -- 1719. He was born in Denby, Derbyshire -- three miles east of Belper.

 

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Leigh in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

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The novelist and screenwriter James Hilton (1900 -- 54), best known for his novels Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; was born in Leigh. He was educated up to the age of fourteen, at the Monoux School, Walthamstow -- London Borough of Waltham Forest.

 

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Ealing in West London is another settlement in which film studios were operational.

 

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The Abbey of Ealing is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery located on Castlebar Hill in Ealing, England. It is part of the English Benedictine Congregation. The architect of the Abbey Church, a Grade II Listed building, was F A Walters.

Amongst his other works is the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

 

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Old Ford in East London also lies on the line of the River Lea.

 

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Something I've used before, but am struggling a bit -- the oldest model boat club in the world is the Victoria Model Steam Boat Club, founded in Old Ford in 1904. (It holds up to seventeen regattas each year, the "biggest and best" of which is always on the first Sunday in July.) Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is also big on the model-boat scene: this centring on the town's marine lake, on which from time to time, model naval battles are fought.

 

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Hartlepool in County Durham was also shelled by battlecruisers of the German Navy during the First World War in 1914.

 

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In the 18th century, Hartlepool was visited by many people for its medicinal springs -- especially the chalybeate spa in the town's Westgate. The poet Thomas Gray visited Hartlepool for this purpose, in 1765; and wrote to a friend, re same; "nothing could be salter and bitterer and nastier and better for you... I am, however, delighted with the place ..." Harrogate, North Yorkshire, is similarly reckoned a nice place (I would concur); but with much-acclaimed but horrible-tasting healing waters.

 

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Buxton in Derbyshire was also developed as a spa town.

 

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Bedford also has a namesake settlement in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.

 

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Leyland, like Bedford, shared a name with a truck brand.

 

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Croston in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Leyland.

 

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Croston lies on the River Yarrow; which runs through Sollom, Lancashire; to join the River Douglas, which in turn runs into the River Ribble.

 

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Lock Lane in Sollom leads up to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, but more specifically the branch that serves Rufford.

 

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Messingham near Scunthorpe also has a nature reserve in a former sand quarry.

 

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Yaddlethorpe in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manley.

 

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Yaddlethorpe has a pub called the Black Beauty. The novel Black Beauty (name-likeness maybe coincidence, maybe not !) -- the story of a horse -- was written by Anna Sewell (1820 -- 78); whose grave is at Lamas (sometimes spelt with two "m" 's), Norfolk: some ten miles north of Norwich.

 

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Belaugh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.

 

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John Betjeman saw St. Peters Church in Belaugh, and this apparently inspired him to be so passionate about churches. Betjeman died in the Cornish village of Trebetherick.

 

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Betjeman wrote a poem titled Trebetherick, lauding the place's delights. A piece of verse -- albeit of a very different kind -- also featuring a Cornish place-name in the title: is The Gate Song of Stowe. Stowe is the name of the manor of the noble Grenville family: at Kilkhampton, Cornwall (near Bude). The Gate Song dates from the English Civil War; strongly Royalist in sentiment, it particularly celebrates Sir Bevil Grenville, then head of the family: killed fighting on the Royalist side in 1643. (Sir B. was the grandson of Sir Richard Grenville, hero of yet another poem: Tennyson's well-known one celebrating the naval engagement between Grenville's ship the Revenge, and an immensely larger Spanish force.)