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Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire also has a pub named the Albert.

 

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Littleborough in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

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Rochdale also lies on the River Roch.

 

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Wardleworth in Greater Manchester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rochdale Poor Law Union.

 

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These days, Wardleworth is moreorless part of Rochdale with a reduced significance in its own right. However, there is an hourly bus to Halifax from its primary street.

 

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The People's Park in Halifax is a public park originally designed by Joseph Paxton. Another location of a Paxton designed park can be found at Birkenhead on the Wirral.

 

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Fleetwood also has a cross-river ferry.

 

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Cyril Mead -- pseudonym "Syd Little" of the comedy duo Little and Large -- runs the Steamer Pub and Little Restaurant in Fleetwood. His partner in "L & L", "Eddie Large" -- real name Edward McGinnis: deceased as of 2020; place of death, Bristol.

 

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Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire also suffered an outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th century.

 

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I seem to be going great guns with the twinnings these days; anyway -- Loughborough, Leicestershire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Haverfordwest's "twin" is Oberkirch; Loughborough's is Schwaebisch Hall.

 

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Wysall in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.

 

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Like Wysall, East Wittering on the Sussex coast is defined as a 'Thankful Village' since all serviceman from the parish survived World War I.

 

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Birdham in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Manhood.

 

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The village sits on the shores of Chichester Harbour and is home to a locked marina on the site of a former tide millpond. The tide mill building itself still exists.

Another location with a surviving tide mill is Thorrington in Essex.

 

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St Osyth in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tendring Poor Law Union.

 

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Prestonpans in East Lothian is also associated with witchcraft.

The St Osyth Witches were 14 women who were tried for witchcraft in Essex in 1582

John Fian (alias Cunninghame) (died 27 January 1591) was a Scottish schoolmaster in Prestonpans, East Lothian and purported sorcerer.

 

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Prestonpans was the scene of a major - but brief - battle on 21st September 1745 when the Jacobite forces led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart defeated the ill-equipped government army led by Sir John Cope, which had disembarked from ships in Dunbar harbour four days earlier.

 

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Born in Dunbar, John Muir emigrated to America as a child, but in adult life was a key advocate in the establishment of national Parks such as Yosemite. There is a long distance walking trail called the John Muir Way that starts in Dunbar and finishes in Helensburgh on Scotland's west coast.

 

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Pontefract in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

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Banbury in Oxfordshire also had a cake named after the town.

 

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Bedworth in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

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Bedworth was the northernmost point on the Coventry Corporation electric tramways system; southernmost thereof, was Earlsdon, Warwickshire -- just south-west of Coventry. (Coventry's trams ceased to run, as from 1940: one has to wonder whether this was connected with regrettable events on Nov. 14/15 of that year.)

 

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Coventry in Warwickshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Coventry Poor Law Union.

 

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Coventry in Warwickshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Coventry Poor Law Union.

Good heavens -- how surprising ! (Sorry...)

Wollaston, Northamptonshire -- three miles south of Wellingborough -- also shares its name with a lake in Canada.

 

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Cyril Perkins, between 2010 and 2013, the world's oldest iving first-class cricketer, was born in Wollaston but died in Ipswich.

 

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Kings Lynn in Norfolk was also an English trading outpost of the Hanseatic League.

 

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One of Kings Lynn's most famous sons was George Vancouver, whose name was given to the city in British Columbia. He died, aged only 40, In Petersham, just south of Richmond-upon-Thames.

 

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Old Malden in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingston.

 

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The Plough in Old Malden is a Miller and Carter restaurant. There is also one of this chain in Sheffield.

 

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Sheffield FC claims to be the oldest football club in the world. They play their home games at Dronfield, Derbyshire.