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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Empingham in Rutland was also once administered by the Hundred of East.

 

[DerekC]

Rutland Water was called Empingham Reservoir during its construction and is the largest by surface area in the UK. However Kielder Water, being considerably deeper, exceeds it in capacity. The village of Kielder, Northumberland, is at the head of the latter reservoir.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has an observatory.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir James Key Caird, 1st Baronet (1837 – 1916) was a Scottish jute baron and mathematician. Born in Dundee, he was one of the city's most successful entrepreneurs, who used the latest technology in his Ashton and Craigie Mills. His name can be seen today, as he gave both the Caird Hall, which dominates City Square, and Caird Park in the north of city to the people of Dundee. He died at his Perthshire estate, Belmont Castle near Meigle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rosemarkie in Ross-shire also has a musuem containing Pictish carved stones.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rosemarkie lies a quarter of a mile east of the town of Fortrose. The pair make up the Royal Burgh Of Fortrose and Rosemarkie, situated either side of the Chanonry Ness promontory, about 12 miles north-east of Inverness.

 

[Tetragon213]

Where Fortrose is home to a Union Tavern, Saltash is home to a similarly named Union Inn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Botus Fleming in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Germans Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Michael Loam was an English engineer who, in 1841, introduced the first man engine (a device to carry men up and down the shaft of a mine) into the UK. He was born in 1797 in Ludgvan, Cornwall and died in 1871 in Botus Fleming.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morvah in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Penwith.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Trewellard is also a small village which lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives with St Just.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pendeen in Cornwall also has a mining museum.

 

[D6130]

Southwold in Suffolk also has a lighthouse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walpole in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Blyth.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Middleton (or Middleton cum Fordley) was also in the hundred of Blything.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastbridge in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Minsmere.

 

[High Dyke]

Sulgrave in Northamptonshire also had a hostelry used by drovers.

 

[DerekC]

Sulgrave Manor was once the seat of Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of George Washington the first president of the United States of America, The family's earliest roots are said to be traceable to one Crinan the Thane of Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, who was born in the late 10th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kenmore in Perth and Kinross also lies on the line of the River Tay.

 

[Tetragon213]

Aviemore is also on Cycle Route 7

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lynchat in Scottish Highlands also lies on the route of the B9152 road.

 

[High Dyke]

Farrandreg, County Louth is also the location of a Souterrain.

Souterrain (from French sous terrain [fr]), meaning "subterrain", is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtownbalregan in County Louth also lies on the route of the R934 regional road.

 

[DerekC]

Balregan in County Louth is another community where prehistoric artefacts were found during archaeological investigations prior to construction of the Dundalk Western Bypass.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tattynaskeagh in County Louth was also once administered by the Barony of Upper Dundalk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The L3122 road (called Drumsinnot) runs through the southern part of the townland of Tattynaskeagh; travelling east, it passes through the townland of Maghereagh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Urney Glebe in County Tyrone was also once administered by the Barony of Strabane Lower.

 

[DerekC]

Much of the land in Urney Glebe was confiscated from the O'Neill clan in 1611 by the English king James I and granted to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, who lived in later life at Monkton in Ayrshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Monkton was originally known as Prestwick Monachorum, from the Latin word meaning "of the monks".

Another location that still uses the word in its name is Zeal Monachorum (Latin translation, Cell of the Monks) in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nymet Rowland in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of North Tawton.