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[DerekC]

Taff's Well is sometimes known as the "Gateway to the Valleys". In a comparable way, Richmond North Yorkshire has a claim to be the "Gateway to the Dales",

 

[D6130]

Skipton in North Yorkshire also has a notable castle.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Thomas Spencer, the co-founder of Marks & Spencer, was born in Queen's Court, Skipton in 1858. The company was founded by a partnership between Michael Marks, a Polish Jew who was born in Slonim (now Belarus), who had migrated to Leeds in the early 1880s, and Thomas Spencer. In 1901, Marks moved to the Birkenhead open market, amalgamating his business with Spencer's.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liscard in Wirral was also once under the jurisdiction of the Birkenhead Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Liscard (as part of Wallesey) and Garston Merseyside are both represented in Parliament by Eagles (Angela and Maria respectively)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergavenny in Monmouthshire also has a church that is jointly dedicated to Our Lady and St Michael.

 

[D6130]

Crickhowell in Powys also has a ruined castle overlooking the River Usk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangattock in Powys was also once administered by the Hundred of Crickhowell.

 

[D6130]

Llangattock in Powys was also once administered by the Hundred of Crickhowell.

Llangattock is the English spelling of the Welsh name Llangadog, which is a village in the Vale of Tywy in Carmarthenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandovery in Carmarthenshire also lies on the route of the A4069 road.

 

[Tetragon213]

The River Towy flows through Llandovery on its way to Ferryside Carmarthenshire

 

[D6130]

The River Towy flows through Llandovery on its way to Ferryside Carmarthenshire

Ferryside was formerly connected by passenger ferry - not surprisingly - with Llansteffan on the West side of the Tywy estuary.

 

[Tetragon213]

Selly Park W.Mids also has a Church to St Stephen

 

[DerekC]

From Selly Park the X20 bus can take us to Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rushock in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Halfshire.

 

[DerekC]

In the Domesday Book of 1086 Urso of Abetot is listed as tenant-in-chief of fifteen manors, mostly in Worcestershire, including Rushock and Hampton Lovett.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary and All Saints.

 

[D6130]

Middlewich is/was also a major centre for the Cheshire salt mining industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Utkinton in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Eddisbury.

 

[DerekC]

Part of Utkinton is known as Quarry Bank, a name which is shared by Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, Cheshire, one of the best preserved sites of the early industrial revolution.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight also had homes for workers erected by their employer.

 

[DerekC]

Port Sunlight was planned as a garden village. The current government has backed a programme of new garden villages to be built in England. The largest, with a planned population of about 6,000, is Welborne in Hampshire. The first residents moved in a few months ago.

 

[Tetragon213]

Hedge End Hants also lies on the route of the M27

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Golcar in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John.

 

[DerekC]

Bedale in North Yorkshire was another of the sites used for the Survey of English Dialects carried out between 1950 and 1961 by the University of Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scruton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Hang East wapentake.

 

[Tetragon213]

Meldon, Northumberland is also a "Thankful" village

 

[DerekC]

Meldon and Riseley in Berkshire are both traversed by Roman roads attributed to the Devil. In the first case the "Devil's Causeway"; In the second the "Devil's Highway".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

For local government purposes, the village of Riseley is today within the civil parish of Swallowfield.

 

[Tetragon213]

Crowfield, Suffolk also shares the same name structure of [bird]-field