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Easby is located just outside the North York Moors National Park. Wass, North Yorkshire -- six miles north-east of Easingwold -- lies just within that National Park.
 
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New Southgate -- London Boroughs of Barnet, and Enfield -- also has a Millennium Green.
 
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Fleetwood is the only town in the UK to possess three lighthouses (one of them, no longer functioning). Harwich, Essex, has two lighthouses -- neither nowadays in use.
 
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Trying hard for new idea: also associatable ("reaching" a bit) with the milieu of stationery / writing materials, is Skipton, North Yorkshire. On the -- it would seem -- getting-towards-extinction, scene of people corresponding with each other on paper: there is a fairly prestigious brand of such paper, called Basildon Bond. Whereas Skipton -- centre of North Yorkshire's Craven district -- has a stationer's shop named Craven Stationery.
 
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Concerning Coombes's church: per Wiki, "its original dedication has been lost" -- some suggest that it may have been, to John The Baptist (occasional services still take place at this church). Aldenham, Hertfordshire -- between Watford and Radlett -- has a church still, definitely, dedicated to J. the B.
 
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Sarratt has the only currently operational watercress-growing undertaking in Hertfordshire. Long famed as being big on the watercress scene is, of course, the area around Alresford, Hampshire.
 
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In the English Civil War, Southwell had its moment of glory or infamy -- depending on which side you favour -- with its being the place where King Charles I surrendered to the Scottish Army in May 1646. "From the annals", it would seem that Charles, making his journey to Southwell from his wartime capital of Oxford: took an indirect route, via Harrow-on-the-Hill -- to get from there, a last glimpse of London.
 
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Fownhope, Herefordshire -- between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye -- also has a pub called the Green Man (as do too, innumerable other settlements in England !).
 
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Quentin Letts, journalist and theatre critic, lives in How Caple. He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
 
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Market Drayton, Shropshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Belgium. Abingdon's "twin" is Sint-Niklaas; Market Drayton's is Arlon. (Trying, as ever to give "fair do's" to Flemings [Sint-N, in the north] and Walloons [Arlon is way down south]).
 
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