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Swimbridge in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St James.
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Parson Jack Russell -- a 19th-century rector of Swimbridge -- was, presumably in his spare time, keenly engaged in dog-breeding: whereby he gave to the world, the Jack Russell terrier. Associated settlement arrived at, admittedly via rather tortuous processes: involving another kind of terrier named after a person (sort-of), with links to a named place. This is the Dandie Dinmont. The name is taken from a character in Sir Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering -- said character reckoned partly based on the real-life James Davidson, originator of the breed in its present form: Davidson's work considered to be development of a strain of dogs first bred and kept by the Allan family of Holystone, Northumberland -- some seven miles west of Rothbury.
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Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington was also once chosen as a site in which to establish a Priory of Augustinian Canonesses.
In past centuries, Clerkenwell -- being located outside London's city walls, thus not in the remit of the staid and indeed puritanically-inclined City of London -- was notorious as a place of assorted bawdy / less-than-honest goings-on. The district of Southwark -- now a London Borough -- was in similar case: being on the south side of the Thames from the City, and therefore outside the jurisdiction of same.
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Liverpool also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.
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Tilbury also has a cruise ship terminal.
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Keighley is the home of Timothy Taylor's Brewery, founded in 1858 and producer of among other things 'Landlord' best bitter. Timothy Taylor himself was born in Bingley, West Yorkshire.
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Marple in Greater Manchester also has a noted canal rise of locks.
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Marple has a Grade I listed aqueduct that carries the canal over the Goyt. Another aqueduct that is Grade I listed is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct located by the Welsh town of Froncysyllte.
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Huddersfield in West Yorkshire also had an Iron-Age hillfort situated within its environs.
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Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson was born in Huddersfield in 1916. He died in London in 1995 and was buried in the churchyard of Old St Mary's Church, St Mary's, in the Isles of Scully.
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St Marys is represented in the UK Parliament by the member for St. Ives.
Repeating self here from three years ago; but it would seem generally reckoned by those who take an interest in these matters -- that the well-liked rhyme / conundrum about the chap with all the wives and cats: is about the St. Ives in Cambridgeshire, rather than that in Cornwall.
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Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
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Wokingham is another place that incorporates a name of another town within it.
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The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band scored a surprise no.1 in 1977 with the Floral Dance. The piece is about the Furry Dance that is performed each spring in Helston, Cornwall.
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Newark-on-Trent also has connections to the processing of sugar beet.
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William Gladstone was once the MP for Newark. He eventually died at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.
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Ewloe in Flintshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Mold.
Curious "double-barrel" pub names to the fore: Ewloe has a pub called the Crown and Liver. With Liverpool being not very far away, it would seem likely that that accounts for the "Liver" connection, rather than its being anatomical -- but one wonders... It would seem certain that this pub name is unique in Britain; however, another odd one, a bit more frequently met with, is the Goat and Compasses; there's a pub thus named, in Kingston upon Hull. Have seen it suggested that said name, is a corruption of "God encompasseth us"; which seems so weird that one feels it might even be true.
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Aberdeen also has a maritime museum.
Grafton, Shropshire -- five miles north-west of Shrewsbury -- also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of New South Wales. (Have selected the Shropshire place rather at random, from among England's several "just plain" Graftons -- the Australian settlement would seem not specifically named after any one of them; but after an 18th / 19th century Duke of Grafton -- re which title I can find no particular link to any of the English Graftons !)
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Yeaton in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Perry.
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Dame Agnes Hunt founded a convalescent home In Baschurch. Such was her pioneering importance that today her name is incorporated in the title Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthpaedic Hospital In Gobowen.
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Llanymynech, Powys is also on the route of the Wat's Dyke Way, a waymarked long-distance path running for 61 miles (98 km).