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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ouzel.

 

[High Dyke]

The River Ouzel also known as the River Lovat flows through Milton Keynes. It rises just north of Dagnall in Buckinghamshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Leighton Buzzard's name was borrowed - more homophonically than accurately - by late 1970s rock band 'The Leyton Buzzards', who were, as their name hints, from Leyton in NE London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church that is named Christ Church.

 

[John Griffiths]

Snooker player Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins lived for some of is life in Heald Green. He was born in Belfast and raised in the Sandy Row District of the city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cookstown in County Tyrone also has a Presbyterian church.

 

[High Dyke]

Cookstown was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956 the flax-related processes of spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.

Beetling is a textile finishing process, where linen or cotton fabric is pounded to produce a flat, lustrous effect. Another such process is Fulling.

Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking.

There was a fulling mill established at Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire which was documented in the Domesday Book

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Childswickham in the northern part of Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Kiftsgate.

 

[High Dyke]

Melbourn, Cambridgeshire also has medieval 'wattle and daub' buildings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abington Pigotts in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Armingford.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Pig and Abbot pub in Abington Pigotts was until the 1980s known as The Darby and Joan; Crowle in Lincolnshire also used to have a pub of that name

 

[High Dyke]

Crowle is on the Isle of Axholme.  Wisbech, on the Isle of Ely, also saw flood alleviation work by the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rustington in West Sussex also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[John Griffiths]

The children of the Llewellyn Davies family, who holidayed in Rustington, were muses to the author J M Barrie, who based Peter Pan on his experiences. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea also has a statue of Peter Pan.

 

[Tetragon213]

The borough which Kensington is in, is Kensington and Chelsea
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[Xenophon PCDGS]

The borough which Kensington is in, is Kensington and Chelsea

That information was shown in the previous posting.

 

[Tetragon213]

That information was shown in the previous posting.

Retracted in that case

Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea also has a statue of Peter Pan.

Freddie Mercury lived his final few years in Kensington. Earlier on he had lived in Feltham (W. London)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cranbrook in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Dunstan.

 

[High Dyke]

The Cranbrook Colony was a group of artists who settled in Cranbrook, Kent from 1853 onward.

The group started with the painter Frederick Daniel Hardy. He was born at Windsor in Berkshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Sandringham is also home to a royal residence

 

[High Dyke]

The architect A. J. Humbert was commissioned to raze the original hall of Sandringham House and create a much larger building. Other works by him included St Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godshill in the Isle of Wight was also once under the jurisdiction of the Isle of Wight Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire is also home to a model village.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twickenham was also chosen as a site for a film studio in the early days of English filmaking.

 

[Tetragon213]

Twickenham is home to the largest rugby stadium in England. Wembley is home to the largest football stadium in England

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poynton in Cheshire East also has a Christian Fellowship church.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lord Beith (Alan Beith), former Lib Dem MP, was born in Poynton. He was MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1973 to 2015 - quite a stint!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loanend in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Loanend was in the district of Norhamshire, which until 1844 was a detached part of County Durham. Another exclave of County Durham until 1844 was the village of Crayke, now in North Yorkshire.