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Calthrop

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Likewise, not to be confused with the better-known Tiverton, Devon -- sorry: low blow, but irresistible.
 

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Trim, County Meath was also known as a rotten borough.
Likely connected with Trim's status as above: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 -- 1852) -- military leader reckoned principally responsible for the defeat of Napoleonic France, and British politician; began his parliamentary career as MP for Trim in the Irish House of Commons. One must suspect that his attaining this post, would have been in rather dodgy circumstances... he died, aged 82, at Walmer in Kent.
 

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Great Mongeham in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Cornilo.
Entries like this, by yourself: have me thinking, "He's got to be making this stuff up" (just kidding :smile:!)

Worle, Somerset -- close by Weston-Super-Mare -- also has a church dedicated to St. Martin.
 

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The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. It is named after Lord Sheffield.

Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (18 January 1832 – 21 April 1909), styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket.

He established a private cricket ground at Sheffield Park near Uckfield, Sussex,
 

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Uckfield has a pub called the Maiden's Head; as does also -- with fine appropriateness -- Maidenhead, Berkshire.
 

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Whereas Penrhosgarnedd is home to Bangor’s major hospital, Stepping Hill is the location of Stockport’s.
 

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Pertenhall, also in Bedfordshire -- six miles east of Wymington -- is also near its county's northern limits.
 

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As a change from the recent villages on or near the northern periphery of Bedfordshire: Studham, three miles south of Dunstable, is at the far southern end of Bedfordshire; near the meeting-point of that county, and Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
 

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Bolton-le-Sands has a pub called the Packet Boat. Cowley, neighbouring to Uxbridge -- London Borough of Hillingdon -- has one called the Paddington Packet Boat.
 

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